Sid, Senior Java Consultant

Even now, many organizations continue to have legacy applications running in many departments and in many forms. If you are thinking to migrate from Cobol green Screens or any near legacy applications like Unisys Mapper, RPG, VSAM, Informix 4GL, or Client/Sever based applications using Oracle Forms/Reports, Power Builder, Delphi, to the Java EE Platform, then we can assist you.

Data Concepts specializes in converting and leveraging legacy applications using SOA [Service Oriented Architecture]. Our migration approach for legacy applications is tied to the fact that these are running applications and have a large impact on the bottom line of an organization. So we carefully identify and devise a long term and stable migration strategy that considers the entire factors associated with migration including hardware, network, and enterprise architecture. We generally create services around the legacy application functionality in order to decouple business/technical functions. Such services can be created by modifying the legacy applications or using adaptors that transform the calls into legacy application specific calls.

Our application migration & re-engineering services include:

• Migration Assessment: Application rationalization, inventory identification, migration strategy definition, migration roadmap definition, optional POC
• Application Porting: Port an application to a new operating system or database
• Application Upgrade (within same operating environment): Language version, OS version, database version, IDE/tools version, product scripting
• Application Re-Engineering for new/improved business functionality and operation: Reverse engineering, POC (recommended), partial or full redevelopment, warranty support, optional maintenance support
• Data Migration: Schema translation, data migration, data cleansing
• Technology Migration: Language migration, OS migration, database migration, user interface migration

Highlights of our Legacy Migration Strategy:

• Low business impact on existing business processes
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Use adaptors to transform calls into legacy application specific language
• Data Conversion from Legacy systems
• Provide stable and long term approach to overall legacy migration including infrastructure, hardware and enterprise applications
• Use of Message oriented Middleware (MOM)