Introduction
With the passing time, enterprises are increasingly
facing the challenge of aging and old software applications,
better known in computing parlance as legacy applications
which are essential for the organizations but at the
same time prove to be a nightmare for programmers
and maintenance engineers. Though burdensome, legacy
applications also represent years of accumulated experience
and knowledge. It is, therefore, unwise to discard
them before building new state of the art applications
to leverage current technologies. There is a need
to transform such legacy applications, suitable to
the latest technology environment by various methods.
For maximizing value, application reengineering is
being increasingly embraced by organizations.
Quintegra has been working on legacy applications
since the time of Y2K problems that had turned the
world in a spin when the millennium was ending and
with which was ending the hope and fate of thousands
of applications worldwide for their inability to recognize
new date. Since then, we have developed special skills
in reengineering through our own proven methods and
experience. Our extensive experience and R&D strengths
provide tool-based processes to achieve relatively
painless reengineering of applications and help organizations
reach their objectives efficiently and effectively.
Offering
Quintegra can rapidly and effectively reengineer
your legacy software applications to contemporary
platforms with optimized architectures, simultaneously
retaining or enhancing the value of those applications.
We bring together our proven processes, technology
expertise and tools to reengineer your software applications
to modern technologies such as .NET and J2EE.
Our global development centers have software programming
teams with proven expertise in modifying or extracting
business logic from legacy systems. Quintegra's mature
programming processes, proprietary methodologies,
flexible global delivery model, and stringent quality
management systems minimize project development cost;
reduce time-to-market and ensure highest quality for
our clients. Our best practices in application reengineering
along with proprietary tools deliver optimized and
cost-effective projects as solutions.
Some of the benefits that enterprises can
reap from our experience are as follows:
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Proven
processes, technology expertise and tools to
re-engineer your applications to modern technologies
such as .NET, J2EE, UNIX and Linux |
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Rapid action
and effective re-engineering on your legacy
applications to contemporary platforms with
optimized architectures, simultaneously retaining
or enhancing the value in the applications |
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Proven expertise
in modifying or extracting business logic from
legacy systems. We follow a structural approach
where we analyze your legacy applications, dig
out the business rules, employ the latest tools
and development techniques and transform your
legacy systems into contemporary applications |
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Greater
flexibility to respond quickly to market changes
with scalable platforms, reduction in cost spent
on out of control legacy systems and reduced
total cost of ownership |
Our offerings for reengineering are as follows:
Assessment
We assess existing legacy systems to formulate a
reengineering roadmap which aligns the selection of
the proposed IT solution to the organization’s
business vision and needs and also maximizes ROI realization.
Assessment includes recommending or deciding on the
appropriate business and technical target architecture,
evaluating build or buy opportunities, and choosing
between one time and incremental system reengineering.
Language Upgradation
We leverage upon tool-based automated conversions
for reengineering legacy languages into modern technologies
to accommodate changing business needs.
User Interface Conversion
Quintegra can reengineer user interfaces for enhancing
ease of use, from look & feel enhancements to
rewriting & redesigning interfaces among different
technologies.
Database Changes
We use proprietary tools and processes for reengineering
databases which produces an improved version of a
legacy database according to definite criteria (correctness,
freeing from obsolete constructs, normalization, optimization,
distribution, using modern technologies, etc.). We
use utilities which apply the prescribed design changes
to snapshots of production databases so that the new
data-model/database is quickly and easily constructed
for on-site testing and implementation.
Technology Upgradation
Technology upgrade presents an ideal opportunity
for analyzing and improving processes in an organization.
Quintegra’s technology upgradation methodology
examines key business process areas to identify high
ROI changes. The approach also ensures minimum customization
by exploiting existing processes that have been implemented
in applications.
Our reengineering methodology uses a unique process
of mock changes to simulate processes, views, and
screens in order to test run the validity and necessity
of the reengineering. This ensures clear metrics for
reengineering justification and also ensures testing
of applications before actual reengineering and global
rollout.
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