Migrations Optons::
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:
- 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.
- Standardization Decisions
Migration transforms non-compliant applications into systems that
conform to sweeping language, tools and platform standardizations
within an organization.
- 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.
- 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?
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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
- VisualAge Generator to Websphere Enterprise Developer (VaGen
to WSED)
- 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:
- Review and discuss your migration requirements
- Perform sizing estimates on the existing application
- Develop a schedule and determine the fixed project cost
- Negotiate contract terms and confidentiality agreements
- Perform migration development and migration system testing with
KSC’s location
- Communicate progress through weekly project reports, conference
calls and/or on-site milestone reviews
- Release migrated software system for your acceptance testing
- 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.
- KSC migrations require far less of your budget, your time,
your technical resources and your exposure to risk
- KSC provides a fixed price for your migration - no hidden charges!
- KSC performs all migrations and testing at KSC facilities, reducing
your facility and staffing obligations.
- KSC 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 |
