Sunday, June 29, 2008


Legacy Systems Migration




Legacy applications, mainframe systems and other mature information technology platforms represent the fruit of literally thousands of staff hours invested in business expertise, process refinement and engineering improvement. They are stable, mature and reliable.However, facing tremendous pressure to stay agile & deal with advent of new technology, ever increasing competition and complexities, global companies are being hampered by the very technologies they relied on to run their businesses. Many of their Core IT (Information Technology) Systems have been developed & optimized for legacy platforms. . In service for years — even decades, these Legacy Systems are difficult to link to new technologies & hence, lack the flexibility to adapt to the changing business environment.Hardware obsolescence, inflexible architectures or expiring vendor support contracts – Overall Complexity is driving many of these legacy systems towards the end of their working lives.Research from Gartner and other analysts also indicates that an average large enterprise spends 60 to 80 per cent of its IT budget on maintaining legacy systems and the applications they run. Organizations today must choose between taking affirmative action to transform their Legacy Systems or bear the consequences of escalating costs or technical disaster in the waiting. The major challenge for CIOs (Chief Information Officer)/ IT Heads of such enterprises is how to leverage existing Legacy Systems – priceless assets that often serve as repository for the critical and core business rules for the organization's day-to-day running.Key business impeditive for CIOs/IT Heads is to consider low-risk & cost effective opportunities to extend and transform their core business systems based on Legacy Platform. Integral Fusion – an IT Service Solutions company helps companies migrate, transform, integrate and modernize enterprise legacy applications. Our Legacy Transformational Services enable customers to migrate different legacy systems into a Web-Enabled environment.Integral Fusion’s Advisory Services provide enterprises with comprehensive Feasibility Analysis to replace/integrate its l legacy systems with advanced, packaged applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM).Integral Fusion Legacy Systems Transformation Services Road Map