Legacy Modernization
- Legacy Systems Assessment
In order to make good decisions about the future direction of any important legacy system, key pieces of information about the system or application are required. Some of the questions that need to be answered are:
- What condition is the code in?
- How well organized is the data?
- How much documentation exists?
- What is the skill level of the current support staff?
Often this information is difficult to obtain without a dedicated focus. STA Group can help you to quickly answer these and other key questions as part of the path toward making strategic decisions about the future of your application.
- Business Rules Extraction
STA Group often finds that the business rules encoded within many of today's legacy systems do not exist in any form outside of code. This presents a serious problem for the organization. STA Group has developed a leading business rule extraction capability that consists of both an innovative process coupled with technology we have developed. We have branded this product ExClaim. This approach has been successful in extracting and making use of hundreds of business rules from legacy code. Let us tell you more about how this works.
- Future Architecture Direction
After a legacy system has been assessed and the business rules have been extracted (if necessary), several key strategic directions must be considered. Should the system be completely re-written or should parts of it be wrapped in a web front end? Could a modern SOA façade be put over some of the legacy components? Or could the entire system be replaced with a newer off the shelf application? How much will all of this cost and what is the timeframe? STA Group has helped its clients answer these very complex questions and more.
- Legacy Modernization Execution
When all plans for modernization are complete, it is time to begin the hard work of execution. Let STA Group show you how it is possible to get to a new level of greater flexibility, higher performance and lower cost through conducting a well planned legacy modernization project.
