Stay ahead of market pressures, maintain control and build agility as you address ongoing challenges to your digitized operations with KR.
Hatha Systems, with its patented Knowledge Refinery® (KR) platform, provides a unique solution mandatory for today’s digital transformation efforts, whether staying on premise or moving to the cloud. KR bridges business/operational and technical layers to deliver a comprehensive understanding of the complex and large scale operations residing in your software. Leverage KR to enhance operational effectiveness, improve customer experience, and reduce cost and risk.
Know Your Environment
When 80-95% of your operations is digitized, having transparency into that operational software is critical to reducing your risk and cost burdens. Growth and profitability depend on ensuring your business operations have the agility to quickly adjust to support customer demands, new regulatory-resilience requirements, and market pressures. Whether your digital operations are in the cloud or on premise, retrieving and documenting the entire body of knowledge is critical to agility. See how KR’s transparency gives you the knowledge to handle your challenges:
- Legacy Modernization
- Application Cloud Migration
- Operational Resilience
- Post M&A Integration
- Audit + Compliance
- AI Adoption
The Challenges of Legacy Modernization Include:
- Poor documentation of both legacy operations and legacy applications running them;
- Inability to accurately plan migration due to a lack of understanding of the gap between current state and required future state of operations, introducing significant risk to successful outcome; and
- Inability to accurately and comprehensively verify post modernization results to ensure business requirements are met while resilience of critical operations are documented.
The precision KR delivers is essential to accurate Legacy Modernization.
With KR Applied: you have transparency required to create a baseline for your migration, trace progress, and verify the end result.
KR APPLIED to Legacy Migration Challenges:
KR uniquely delivers— for the first time— a comprehensive and accurate baseline of your ‘as is’ state to ensure a clear understanding of what to keep, what to remove, what to change, and what is missing. Whether approaching your transformation effort as a greenfield development or a migration project, understanding current state enables your organization to ensure valuable operations are not dismissed, creating waste and unneeded cost.
For a legacy migration, creating an ‘as is’ baseline and assessment provides a foundation for developing an accurate plan of action with risks and dependencies that are well-understood. During the follow-on transformation phase, the oversight and control stays with you while transformation milestones are accomplished by the Dev Ops team. KR enables verification of milestones and ensures the final migration is accurately implemented to meet both technical and business requirements. Lastly, the baseline of the ‘to be’ system with KR ensures that risk and resilience measures are verified on an ongoing basis for proof of operational rigor of your digitized operations.
The Challenges of Application Cloud Migration Include:
- Driving cloud migration based on business operations need rather than technology platform-based decisions;
- Ensuring flexibility and agility of migration and sustainment of business operations in the cloud; and
- Obtaining an accurate and detailed understanding of the application landscape, including dependencies, risks, and priorities.
The precision KR delivers is essential to accurate Application Cloud Migration.
With KR Applied: you get cleanly executed migration to sustain operations in a complex mixed environment
KR APPLIED to Application Cloud Migration Challenges:
Knowledge Refinery is uniquely qualified to address application cloud migration. It delivers comprehensive documentation of current digitized operation (“ground truth”) to identify the portfolio of applications and their dependencies, risks, and priorities across both on-premise and cloud targeted applications, as a critical first step. This “ground truth” is leveraged to quickly, accurately and at scale, assess current state for planning of application migration. A combination of business/technical architecture, business workflow, data flow, and the underlying technical implementation provides a unique opportunity to decide which applications belong in the cloud and which stay on premise, based on business/operational need. The analysis enables the identification of what to keep, remove, change, and what is missing as move to cloud is determined within an application not only for lift and shift but for operational effectiveness.
The Challenges of Operational Resilience Include:
- Regulators are expanding resilience requirements to include critical digitized business operations for resilience reporting—with anticipated penalties on the horizon;
- Digitized operations (80-95% of all operations) have been impossible to trace and document without transparency; and
- There is a knowledge gap due to the lack of traceability of business workflow and data flow, and their link to underlying technical mechanisms, making it impossible to deliver proof of resilience.
The precision KR delivers is essential to accurate Operational Resilience.
With KR Applied: you get cleanly executed migration to sustain operations in a complex mixed environment
KR APPLIED to Operational Resilience Challenges:
KR has the unique capability of delivering the transparency and traceability required to ensure digitized operations is integrated into you resilience reporting requirements. With as much as 80-95% of operations across critical market operations running in software, the need for proof of resilience is impossible without KR. KR’s ability to provide transparency and traceability across business workflows, data flows with traceability to the underlying software mechanisms used to deliver the rigor required for critical workflows and data flows, KR delivers a unique value that no other platform can provide. The accuracy, scale, and traceability required for this is only achieved through the use of KR.
The Challenges of Post M&A Integration Include:
- Duplicate operations from decades of M&A efforts plague efficiency and effectiveness of digitized business operations;
- Undocumented or misunderstood duplications in digitized operations make it difficult to consolidate and retire redundancies across application portfolios; and
- Without transparency, organizations cannot address the higher risk they carry from duplication across digitized business operations.
The precision KR delivers is essential to accurate Post M&A Integration.
With KR Applied: you get cleanly executed migration to sustain operations in a complex mixed environment
KR APPLIED to Post M&A Integration Challenges:
Resilience and compliance reporting deadlines wait for no one. Whether fully integrated or not, post M&A operations with its duplications are a challenge for any organization. KR is critical for extracting and documenting the business workflow and data flow landscape for accurate, scalable, and comprehensive reporting. KR’s ability to deliver the underlying technical implementation enables organizations to provide unprecedented proof of resilience at a level of granularity and verification for any regulator.
KR is critical for post M&A integration efforts to reduce duplicate business workflow and data flow providing a level of extraction and analysis not seen before. The comparison leveraging our rationalizer enables quick and scalable understanding of duplicate workflow and data to address methods of consolidation since they are tied to the underlying technical implementation. These views provide quick assessment of what is duplicate and which implementation is better to meet operational and resilience/compliance requirements. Today, this effort is neither cost effective for feasible without significant manual engagement introducing error as well as risk of poor or inaccurate implementation. In a complex and heterogeneous environment, the ability to automate the process of extraction and understanding ensure a methodical/planned approach to executing a clean-up and integration plan.
The Challenges of Audit + Compliance Include:
- Expansion and acceleration of the digitized and ever-evolving operations has made it difficult to keep pace with delivering comprehensive audit/compliance reports to regulators;
- Regulators have started to demand documented proof to better trace and verify compliance and audit requirements against business operational workflow and data flow; and
- Lack of traceability and transparency has created difficulties in the retrieval of documented proof, resulting in penalties from regulators.
The precision KR delivers is essential to accurate Audit + Compliance.
With KR Applied: you get cleanly executed migration to sustain operations in a complex mixed environment
KR APPLIED to Audit + Compliance Challenges:
KR is unique in its ability to delivery compliance and audit needs through the traceability of workflows and dataflows including how the data is shaped across these flows through the use of business rules in the order they are executed. This unique view delivers a precise and traceable view for organizations to provide the appropriate documentation for the completeness across both human- and software-run (digitized) operation. Since human-run operations can be imported or captured in KR as well, the repository becomes a permanent place of knowledge which can be updated based on operational update schedules whether in software or human-run.
The Challenges of AI Adoption Include:
- Questionable results from AI engine due to lack of proof of accurate input data;
- Inaccurate output slows adoption of—and organizational confidence in—AI engine potential; and
- Poor quality output increases customer dissatisfaction and departure.
The precision KR delivers is essential to accurate AI Adoption.
With KR Applied: you get cleanly executed migration to sustain operations in a complex mixed environment
KR APPLIED to AI Adoption Challenges:
Successful adoption of AI means giving it permission to take over facets of your business operations and giving it decision-making authority to make decisions faster with less human interaction. But how do you know that these decisions are accurate? AI must be designed: it does only what you design it to do, nothing less and nothing more.
KR provides the transparency required to make accurate decisions across your digitized operations and is, therefore, a critical asset to any organization that aims to improve its operational output with AI implementation. KR provides the knowledge necessary to prove that your AI input, process, and results are accurate.
KR audits, verifies, and reports so you can advocate for, refine, and increase the value of your AI investments.
New Technologies
Today it’s AI, but there will always be tempting new technologies that promise to lower costs through untested innovation. The KR platform delivers the transparency and analytics that allow you to safely leverage any new technology. KR captures and preserves foundational knowledge– data, rulesets, and framing– to ensure the stability of your evolving operation.