Framework for modernizing applications for a cloud computing environment

A computerized cloud modernization method implemented via a back-end application computer server, comprising:

• retrieving, by a computer processor of the back-end application computer server, information from an enterprise application data store for a selected first electronic record for a first application;
• based on enterprise application parameters, automatically generating a modernization effort score representing a complexity of modernizing the first application;
• tagging the first application as one of:
• a modernization candidate, a re-platform candidate, and a re-host candidate, the tagging based on a comparison of the modernization effort score to a plurality of thresholds;
• in a case the first application is identified as the modernization candidate:
• identifying an appropriate cloud computing pattern in a catalogue of cloud computing patterns for the first application;
• automatically creating, using the identified cloud computing pattern, a reference implementation of the first application in a cloud computing environment;
• and
• creating a target modernization template for refactoring the first application, the target modernization template including starter code and structure for the reference implementation.

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions, that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a cloud modernization method implemented via a back-end application computer server, the method comprising:

• retrieving, by a computer processor of the back-end application computer server, information from an enterprise application data store for a selected first electronic record for a first application;
• based on enterprise application parameters, automatically generating a modernization effort score representing a complexity of modernizing the first application;
• tagging the first application as one of:
• a modernization candidate, a re-platform candidate, and a rehost candidate, the tagging based on the modernization effort score;
• in a case the first application is identified as the modernization candidate:
• identifying an appropriate cloud computing pattern in a catalogue of cloud computing patterns for the first application;
• automatically creating, using the identified cloud computing pattern, a reference implementation of the first application in a cloud computing environment;
• and
• creating a target modernization template for re-factoring the first application, the target modernization template including starter code and structure for the reference implementation.