Whats new
Dr Migrate Version 4.0 represents a significant leap forward, introducing a suite of AI Assistants designed to seamlessly integrate discovered data with user inputs, enabling migration planning at scale with unprecedented efficiency.
This release also features a host of new enhancements, including an upgraded user interface and workflow, new automatically curated reports, intuitive wizards, and robust activity tracking tools.
New AI Assistants
| AI Assistant | Summary |
|---|---|
| CMDB Assistant | Identifies potential COTS applications running in your environment, speeding up inventory mapping. Can be used standalone or combined with an existing inventory. |
| Migration Goals Assistant | Recommends the most suitable migration pathway (light modernization, heavy modernization, or migrate as-is) based on user-defined goals, providing clear guardrails for planning. |
| Modernization Targets Assistant | Suggests Azure alternatives for detected technologies based on migration pathways, offering best practices for modernization. |
| 6R Assistant | Provides tailored 6R recommendations by combining migration pathways, modernization preferences, and business context to align technical and strategic goals. Customizable at both application and server levels. |
| Application Sizing Assistant | Analyzes infrastructure and servers to determine migration complexity (e.g., simple, medium, large), guiding effort estimation. |
| Wave Planning Assistant | Groups applications into migration waves based on network affinities, 6R treatments, and complexity, while estimating effort. |
New Features
| New Advanced Insights PPT (now called Advanced - Migrate and Secure Plan) | A total overhaul of the PPT report including additional and improved TCO calculations, a new Plan on a Page, Key Azure Benefits and various planning specific content dynamically curated based on the assessment. |
|---|---|
| Finder Wizard | Enables users to specify search criteria using over 50 parameters (e.g., OS, specific software, support status) and retrieve all workloads that match. |
| App Strategies Module | The new App Strategies module allows users to define application-level goals (e.g., tolerate, invest, eliminate, replace) to bridge technical and business context for better migration planning. Application information captured here automatically flows to AI Assistants. |
| Migration Pathways | A new and improved Migration Goals component helps align customer goals to a Migration Pathways (light modernization, heavy modernization, or migrate as-is) providing clear guardrails for planning. |
| Activity Tracker | Tracks progress and guides users through assessment and planning steps to streamline workflow and reduce errors. |
| Enhanced UI and Dashboards | Simplified user interface with improved data health dashboards to expedite troubleshooting and day-to-day usability. |