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# Overview

## What is AppFactor? 

AppFactor is a cloud-native platform that enables enterprises to discover, analyze and assess the applications running on their environments (*on-premises* or *cloud*, *iron* or *VMs*), automatically migrate applications and workloads into cloud-native components and deploy those into containerized solutions that can ran in any cloud (*public* or *private*) environment. 

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## Main Use Cases

* Gain information and visibility on large scale environments full of legacy applications, sometimes orphaned.
* Provide compliance and governance intelligence about the application landscape.
* Complement CMDB catalogues with additional information about hosts and applications.
* Migrate legacy applications (e.g. running on VMware) into cloud containers.
* Modernize application portfolios, generate technical documentation, fix bugs, add new features to applications, etc. 
* Provide automatic maintenance to application portfolios.

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## Basic Functionality

* Scans, analyses and introspects your application environments, listing dependencies, vulnerabilities, EOL (End Of Life) for software components and risk factors. Scans are on-demand and there is no executable running on your endpoint host/system. Scan snapshots are kept to journal the changes on each system/application.
* Provides assessment reports suggesting migration targets based on risk factor and priority.
* Automatically extracts application code, refactoring workloads and fixing issues, and prepares it for cloud deployment.
* Design Cloud Deployment waves to orchestrate your cloud migrations.
* Runs on your cloud environment, keeping privacy and security on the spotlight.

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## High-Level Architecture

<figure><img src="/files/zWZzqyVaNXldVy5RePA2" alt=""><figcaption><p>Solution Components</p></figcaption></figure>

### Components

The entire solution is composed of the following components:

* **Scanner** - deployed on-demand on the destination host
* **Orchestrator** - runs on your premises (e.g. a laptop of the user) and has network connectivity with the hosts
* **Frontend** **UI** - the web interface that can be used to mange the scans, migrations and observe all the captured data
* **Backend Services** - a set of microservices that runs on your cloud and contains the business logic components required for the platform to operate
* **Target Destinations** - your destination environment (e.g. cloud container solutions) where you want to deploy the migrated application

For more information, please see [Components](/52eJroWboQfTwsFl14gL/quickstart-guide/overview/components.md)

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## What application types can we detect & assess?&#x20;

Below a list of frameworks, languages and versions of the applications/workloads we can assess:

<table><thead><tr><th width="242.15625">Language or Framework</th><th valign="middle">Type or Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Linux system container</strong></td><td valign="middle">Linux 64bits (VM or otherwise)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Java</strong></td><td valign="middle">Any version</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Apache Tomcat</strong></td><td valign="middle">Apache Tomcat v8.5 - v10.0</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Apache</strong> <strong>Web</strong></td><td valign="middle">Apache HTTP Server v2.4</td></tr><tr><td><strong>JBoss or WildFly</strong></td><td valign="middle">​JBoss Application Server v8.1.0 or later<br>​JBoss Enterprise Application Platform v7.0 - 7.4</td></tr><tr><td><strong>IBM WebSphere</strong></td><td valign="middle"><p>​WebSphere Application Server </p><p> v8.55 &#x26; v9.05<br>WebSphere Application Server Liberty (all versions)</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>WordPress sites</strong></td><td valign="middle">WordPress v4.0 or later</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Oracle WebLogic</strong></td><td valign="middle">Oracle WebLogic 12.2 or later​</td></tr><tr><td><strong>.NET ASP</strong></td><td valign="middle">​IIS v7.5 or later.<br>.NET v2 or later</td></tr><tr><td><strong>PHP</strong></td><td valign="middle">PHP Frameworks</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Python</strong></td><td valign="middle">Python Frameworks (Django)</td></tr></tbody></table>

## What about other services, like Messaging Services or Databases?&#x20;

We can detect additional services like Messaging (e.g. MQ) or Databases (e.g. SQL), but we do not provide assessment or migration capabilities for it.

## How to run an Application Discovery & Assessment?&#x20;

For more information. please see [Discovery & Assessment](/52eJroWboQfTwsFl14gL/quickstart-guide/discovery-and-assessment.md)

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## How to run an Application Modernization?&#x20;

For more information. please see [Migration & Deployment](/52eJroWboQfTwsFl14gL/quickstart-guide/migration-and-deployment.md)


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