The Reengineering and Migration are important permanent processes for organizations which are constantly upgrading themselves in the modern dynamic business. The reasons are simple. You are always facing difficulties while optimizing the business processes if you have legacy systems. On the other hand, legacy systems drive up maintenance costs. The strategic way is to build long term plan how to upgrade and grow the IT infrastructure. This plan should involve the projects for legacy systems reengineering and migration. Smart and predictable reengineering and migration processes support the growing needs of the organization, without hindering existing business processes.
The challenges
The critical need of the re-engineering or migration process appears when organization faces issues like:
This process always takes money to keep the team for the support and maintenance staff. Keep in mind, that from year to year the skills required for the task become more and more rare which means that you can't grow or reorganize the team in a fast way.
- Ensuring reliability and Quality Assurance
Technical progress is not staying still. Solutions created years ago are not that controllable and manageable as the modern ones. There are less tools and technical features in solutions to clearly control their behavior. It becomes a real challenge to effectively manage the "black box".
- Maintaining business agility
It is not easy to maintain the legacy software solution supporting all changes in business processes. Thus organization is missing opportunities to respond fast enough to market demand, which results in lost competitive advantages.
The approach
The main objective of the migration and re-engineering services is to help customers to reduce costs of maintenance and upgrade of existing applications. There are several stages of the readiness to start the migration or re-engineering. Depending on the stage, where the customer is at the moment, Softengi can offer the following services:
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Migration Assessment: Softengi’s professionals perform set of audits and draw the real picture for the customer regarding the most needed and efficient steps of the migration. The resulting conclusion contains current infrastructure analysis, description of weaknesses, migration strategy definition, migration roadmap definition and other materials which help the customer to take the decision regarding the migration.
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Solution Porting: Softengi can either suggest (after the assessment) the platform and technologies where to move to or perform the porting of the solution according to the customer’s requirements. This includes the porting to a new operating system or database, or to completely another platform.
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Solution Upgrade: The process of the solution upgrade means porting to a newer OS version or database version, to a newer version of the platform used or IDE/tools version.
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Solution Re-Engineering for new/improved business functionality and operation: There is also the opportunity of business-oriented re-engineering, which includes reverse engineering, partial or full redevelopment and maintenance of the solution.
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Data Migration: Helps to change the data storage for the solution which includes schema translation, data migration, data cleansing and data verification.
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