With the passing time, enterprises are increasingly facing the challenge of aging
and old software applications, better known in computing parlance as legacy applications
which are essential for the organizations but at the same time prove to be a nightmare
for programmers and maintenance engineers. Though burdensome, legacy applications
also represent years of accumulated experience and knowledge. It is, therefore,
unwise to discard them before building new state of the art applications to leverage
current technologies. There is a need to transform such legacy applications, suitable
to the latest technology environment by various methods. For maximizing value, application
reengineering is being increasingly embraced by organizations.
An IT Solution has been working on legacy applications since the time of Y2K problems
that had turned the world in a spin when the millennium was ending and with which
was ending the hope and fate of thousands of applications worldwide for their inability
to recognize new date. Since then, we have developed special skills in reengineering
through our own proven methods and experience. Our extensive experience and R&D
strengths provide tool-based processes to achieve relatively painless reengineering
of applications and help organizations reach their objectives efficiently and effectively
An IT Solution can rapidly and effectively reengineer your legacy software applications
to contemporary platforms with optimized architectures, simultaneously retaining
or enhancing the value of those applications. We bring together our proven processes,
technology expertise and tools to reengineer your software applications to modern
technologies such as .NET and J2EE.
Our global Development centers have software programming teams with proven expertise
in modifying or extracting business logic from legacy systems. An IT Solution's
mature programming processes, proprietary methodologies, flexible global delivery
model, and stringent quality management systems minimize project Development cost;
reduce time-to-market and ensure highest quality for our clients. Our best practices
in application reengineering along with proprietary tools deliver optimized and
cost-effective projects as solutions.
Some of the benefits that enterprises can reap from our experience are as follows:
- Proven processes, technology expertise and tools to re-engineer your applications
to modern technologies such as .NET, J2EE, UNIX and Linux
- Rapid action and effective re-engineering on your legacy applications to contemporary
platforms with optimized architectures, simultaneously retaining or enhancing the
value in the applications
- Proven expertise in modifying or extracting business logic from legacy systems.
We follow a structural approach where we analyze your legacy applications, dig out
the business rules, employ the latest tools and Development techniques and transform
your legacy systems into contemporary applications
- Greater flexibility to respond quickly to market changes with scalable platforms,
reduction in cost spent on out of control legacy systems and reduced total cost
of ownership
Our offerings for reengineering are as follows:
Assessment
We assess existing legacy systems to formulate a reengineering roadmap which aligns
the selection of the proposed IT solution to the organization's business vision
and needs and also maximizes ROI realization. Assessment includes recommending or
deciding on the appropriate business and technical target architecture, evaluating
build or buy opportunities, and choosing between one time and incremental system
reengineering.
Language Upgradation
We leverage upon tool-based automated conversions for reengineering legacy languages
into modern technologies to accommodate changing business needs.
User Interface Conversion
An IT Solution can reengineer user interfaces for enhancing ease of use, from look
& feel enhancements to rewriting & redesigning interfaces among different technologies.
Database Changes
We use proprietary tools and processes for reengineering databases which produces
an improved version of a legacy database according to definite criteria (correctness,
freeing from obsolete constructs, normalization, optimization, distribution, using
modern technologies, etc.). We use utilities which apply the prescribed design changes
to snapshots of production databases so that the new data-model/database is quickly
and easily constructed for on-site testing and implementation.
Technology Upgradation
Technology upgrade presents an ideal opportunity for analyzing and improving processes
in an organization. An IT Solution's technology upgradation methodology examines
key business process areas to identify high ROI changes. The approach also ensures
minimum customization by exploiting existing processes that have been implemented
in applications.
Our reengineering methodology uses a unique process of mock changes to simulate
processes, views, and screens in order to test run the validity and necessity of
the reengineering. This ensures clear metrics for reengineering justification and
also ensures testing of applications before actual reengineering and global rollout.