The Challenge of Application Inventory 📊💻
Are you planning to migrate to the cloud or modernize your applications? One of the biggest challenges is creating an accurate inventory of your IT applications and their endpoints.
Accelerate Application Discovery with DNS Zone Files 🔍📁
In our latest episode of the Modernize as You Migrate series, we dive into how analyzing DNS zone files can accelerate your application discovery process.
The Pitfalls of Manual Inventory Creation 😓📊
Manually creating an application inventory can be time-consuming and error-prone, often involving countless spreadsheets. However, uncovering all your application endpoints is crucial for accurate planning, efficient project execution, and securing your infrastructure.
Simplify with Tidal Accelerator 
Tidal Accelerator simplifies this process by allowing you to uncover application endpoints from DNS zone files provided by Microsoft DNS, BIND, Infoblox, and more.
Application centric data discovery with Tidal Cloud
Unlock Insights with Discovered Endpoints ✅
With endpoints discovered, you can:
- Analyze web technologies at each endpoint
- Group URLs into business applications
- Prepare for interviews with application owners
From Endpoints to Modernization Assessment
DNS endpoint discovery is a strong starting point — but the real ROI comes from layering technical and business assessment on top of what you find.
Next, in Tidal Accelerator:
- Scan source code locally with Tidal Tools — your code stays in your environment (source code analysis guide)
- Record interviews with application owners — capture business context once and reuse it across your portfolio (Application Owner Interviews, Accelerator feature)
- AI-assisted analysis synthesizes technical and business data into modernization scores, 6R recommendations, and executive-ready reports (Business Analytics, transformative assessments)
Funded Application Modernization Assessment programs help you prioritize workloads, build the business case, and define a modernization roadmap — with 76% average IT OpEx savings for organizations that modernize strategically (learn about OMA).
Streamline Your Application Discovery 🌊😄
Say goodbye to the hassle of manual application discovery and hello to streamlined efficiency with Tidal Accelerator.
Watch Now and Transform Your Process 🎥👀
Watch the full episode now and discover how Tidal Cloud can transform your application discovery process.