Assessing an application estate can be a logistical nightmare. Manual processes, spreadsheets and old-style trackers are not fit for purpose, and these inefficiencies can result in project delays and overreaching budgets.

**Simplify:** Introducing the Cloudwave® Assessment Tool (CAT) ­– a unique, survey-based assessment platform designed to simplify application assessment ahead of change. All surveys are fully customisable and traceable so you can review who’s responded and who you need additional information from – all at the click of a button.

**Intelligence:** By augmenting your CMDB with a specialist, intelligent categorisation engine, you gain a complete picture of your application estate – all on a centralised dashboard.

**Easy to navigate:** CAT delivers actionable insights – drawing on contextual factors, consolidating multiple data streams and identifying patterns and abnormalities in real-time.

**Results and recommendations:** To show which applications deliver business value, enabling you to accurately determine which to prioritise, migrate and retire.

**Efficiency:** With CAT, you can reduce the costs and improve the efficiency of your assessment phase ahead of a cloud migration or large-scale IT change programme – all while providing enterprise-grade data protection and security to keep your data safe.

**Configurable questionnaires** – Use one of our existing questionnaires for Cloud, Containers, Database Migration, or create your own

**Intelligent Question Assignment** – reduce SME fatigue by only asking questions relevant to the application

**Assessment dashboard** – View assessment progress and overall estate readiness on a single, easy to use dashboard

**Application insights** – Identify common themes across your portfolio, and group and categorise applications accordingly.

**CMDB Integration** – enhance your CMDB with contextual data from the assessment process

**CMDB Snapshot** – Capture As-Is CMDB information for assessment related CIs

**Configurable Export option** – Export assessments for reporting purpose using predefined & configurable word document (.docx) templates

**Key Outcomes**

1. Prioritise your applications based on their business impact and complexity
2. Establish which workload goes to which cloud
3. Determine whether to re-host, refactor, retire, rebuild or replace
4. Build your migration plan and business case
5. Reduce costs by typically 25% or more