Legacy Application Migration and Interfaces
Organizations generally explore ways to leverage the strength of their legacy applications while attempting to improve their accessibility or while considering an application re-design. More often than not, meeting this objective involves moving from a traditional mainframe to client/server or web architecture. Over the years, we have executed several projects in the area of legacy software migration.
Our legacy application migration capabilities are:
- Legacy Application re-design/ re-transform/ re-engineer
- Migration to multiple databases or database upgrade/migration to web platforms
- GUI migration
- Application implementation, training & maintenance and support
With expertise on several operating system platforms and database systems, SPEC services enable customers to focus on their core competencies. Software professionals with skills in development, migration, testing and quality control address performance and RDBMS tuning issues during the migrating.
We re-engineer legacy applications or re-design them to meet current business models. Typically, this re-engineering is an opportunity to remove problems one has encountered or dealt with for years. SPEC will work with your team to migrate legacy applications to ones that satisfy current requirements and allow for flexibility and scalability for future expansion. SPEC services help determine the right architecture to meet business and technical requirements. We scrutinize all variables that may affect the success of such an endeavor:
- Geography diversity of users
- Application characteristics
- Degree of functional enhancement sought
- Existing infrastructure
- Time for execution
- Budget
- Implementation & maintenance issues
- Alignment with overall strategic plans
Our phased approach based migration services
- Need assessment services to help clients decide to stay, port, build, or buy.
- IT infrastructure assessment
- Technology evaluation
- Resource and skills planning
- Security consideration and policy planning
- Testing & Deployment
- Training & Support
Our migration services are categorized as:
- Migration of applications in the same platform
- Migration of applications across platforms & technologies
- Migration of databases and data servers
SPEC has successfully migrated legacy systems for two large fortune 500 companies in Europe. We have re-platformed their Sales and Distribution system that ran on Core Java (front-end), COBOL (middleware) and DB2 (database) running on a mainframe system. We migrated this system to CORE Java (front-end), J2EE (middleware) and ORACLE (database).
This is our strength in diverse legacy application migration for large and medium enterprises:
- Over 10 years of re-platforming experience
- Re-platformed Sales & Distribution Solution from COBOL Java DB2 Platform to Java, EJB, Oracle 9i Platform for Fortune 100 client
- Comprises of 15 modules - Master Files, Order Booking, Delivery, Hand Held, Surveys, Sales Accounting, Demand Planning, Inventory, Interfaces, etc.
- Deployed across 5 countries in 5 languages
- System used by 1600 hand held users generating a sales revenue of Euros 6.1 billion
- 365x24x7 application support & maintenance provided since last three years
- Re-platformed Fourth Shift customization from DOS based Clipper Application to NT based VB, SQL Server Application for multi-country
