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The Facts about Migration
As businesses round the corner into the 21st
century, many are faced with unprecedented technological challenges and
obstacles. How they respond to these challenges will be a critical factor
in determining their long-term success.
Knowledge Systems Corporation answers one of the most daunting
questions facing organizations today:
How do we preserve our investment in the high-quality current software
systems at the heart of our business while keeping pace with the speed of
change?
A good rule of thumb is to keep what works and change only what doesn’t
-- that is the principle that underlies migrations.
What is migration?
Migration is a process that allows companies to relocate existing
production software to a more desirable language and/or environment.
Generally much less expensive than re-developing complex software systems,
migration preserves an organization's existing development investment and
the software’s functionality and reliability.
What factors drive the need for migration?
There are a variety of reasons why an organization would consider
migrating a current production application or system. In addition to
preserving the integrity and tremendous financial investment of the
existing software systems, migration provides solutions to challenges
facing programmers and IT Managers.
Challenges that drive the need for migration include:
1. Dwindling Vendor Support Services
As a software or hardware platform loses market momentum, the resources
allocated by the vendors to support it are reduced. Company programmers
and professionals begin to lose confidence and wonder where they will turn
if parts of their production software systems go awry. It then becomes
necessary to investigate alternative solutions that will provide solid,
long-term vendor support.
2. Standardization Decisions
Migration transforms non-compliant applications into systems that conform
to sweeping language, tools and platform standardizations within an
organization.
3. Expert Staffing Shortage
As the marketplace introduces new languages and tools, many programmers
are drawn towards the new technologies. As a result, companies have
difficulty finding resources to maintain staffing levels for existing
production software systems.
4. Continual Run-Time Expense
Many vendors charge ongoing run-time fees for using their languages and
applications. Migrating current production software systems can cut
company costs by eliminating these fees.
What types of migrations does KSC perform?
For over 15 years, Knowledge Systems Corporation has demonstrated a keen
understanding of and strong belief in the value and effectiveness of
Object Technology programming and software development. Today, this
understanding enables KSC to perform the following types of migrations
successfully:
• Smalltalk to Smalltalk
• Smalltalk to Java
• Java to Smalltalk
• 2-tier architecture to 3-tier architecture
Other migrations are also available; please contact Knowledge Systems
Corporation with your specific needs.
What are the benefits of a KSC migration?
Benefits of a Knowledge Systems Corporation migration include:
• High-quality, dependable, measurable results by KSC’s expert staff
• Minimal strain on your company’s resources
• Maximal utilization of your company’s resources
• Preservation of existing investment in system and user training
• Reduced completion time compared to re-development
• Reduced risk compared to re-development
• Reduced cost compared to re-development
• One-year warranty and support
How does KSC perform a migration?
Knowledge Systems Corporation ensures a successful migration by
following these steps:
1. Review and discuss your migration requirements
2. Perform sizing estimates on the existing application
3. Develop a schedule and determine the fixed project cost
4. Negotiate contract terms and confidentiality agreements
5. Perform migration development and migration system testing with KSC’s
location
6. Communicate progress through weekly project reports, conference calls
and/or on-site milestone reviews
7. Release migrated software system for your acceptance testing
8. Support migrated software system with one-year warranty
Why choose Knowledge Systems Corporation for migration?
KSC has provided technology transition and development services since its
inception in 1985. KSC's migration staff alone has over a century of
combined expertise in Smalltalk and Java software development.
• migrations require far less of your budget, your time, your
technical resources and your exposure to risk.
• provides a fixed price for your migration - no hidden
charges!
• performs all migrations and testing at KSC facilities,
reducing your facility and staffing obligations.
• provides a one-year warranty for each and every migration.
• KSC will educate your critical resources in the new language
and/or environment, so they can continue maintaining the software system
in its migrated form.
For more information, please contact
sales@ksc.com or call 800 348-8323
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