Legacy Modernization
Does Your Business face the Legacy Challenge?
Legacy systems are a large challenge for any business. The situation is all too common: An inherited system, which was once state of the art, built on top of unwieldy, monolithic and homogeneous platforms. These mature systems are dependent on technologies or architectures that aren't flexible or scalable, and related information systems that are fragmented, inconsistent and duplicative as a result of the legacy cornerstones.
IT teams are now faced with undocumented data models, millions of lines of undecipherable code and limited documentation. Further, the system is usually fully understood only by a few irreplaceable people and the challenges to find skilled resources keep increasing. On average, legacy systems consume up to 40-50% of a company's IT budget in their maintenance and support.
As a result, the enterprise systems and applications are not able to support today's business and competitive plans and future growth initiatives.
There is, however, tremendous business value locked in legacy systems. Legacy applications represent an significant investment of both dollars and time. Kanbay has a deep understanding of the issues today's businesses face with their legacy systems and offers a combination of skills, tools and experience in legacy modernization that can help to accelerate and optimize the modernization process and identify opportunities to extend and transform existing core systems.
Step-by-Step Approach
Our experience includes helping clients to wade through the muddy legacy waters to set a strategy and roadmap for success using one, or combination of, the following approaches:
- Re-structure: improves the maintainability and performance of legacy applications.
- Re-front: provides direct application and information access to users who previously relied on an intermediary
- Re-use: lets applications inside and outside your company talk to each other to share information and processes.
- Re-engineer: moves the platform, language, database or functionality of an application to another application.
- Re-host: allows movement of a complete application to an alternate platform.
Kanbay Delivers
- Knowledge: A deep understanding of legacy as well as new-age technologies along with in-depth domain expertise
- Methodology: Leveraging our proprietary and proven methodology, analytical frameworks in conjunction with the best of the breed legacy understanding tools to access, analyze, understand and document existing applications
- Partners: Partnering with industry leading solution providers in conjunction with our own expertise in building integration pieces between tools to streamline transformation process
- Price/Value: Leveraging Kanbay’s GlobalLink methodology to provide low total cost of ownership
- Commitment: Continuous improvement initiatives with alignment to customer objectives
Transformation Partnerships
Kanbay has access to ASG tools and technology for automated analysis and extensive experience with ESW, SmartTest and Becubic.
Extensive experience with IBM Mainframes, IBM Web Sphere, MQ Series, DB2 and web development technologies as well as OOAD using Rational Rose.
Kanbay's .NET Center of Excellence supports our extensive experience wtih Microsoft Windows, MS .Net Framework, Web development technologies ASP .Net, VB .Net, C#, COM, DCOM, SQL Server 2000, Exchange Server 2000, Conferencing Server & Enterprise Server 2000.
