Retain your investment, reduce your risk
Many organizations are at a critical junction with their important legacy applications.
Perhaps these applications are running well, but they’re dependent on outdated or unsupported platforms. Or maybe they need to be enhanced with new features, or modernized into a new architecture. But these programs were written long ago, by developers that have long since left, and until now no one wanted to “open up the code.”
But there’s no longer any choice – you have to take the plunge. The risk of continuing to operate with these outdated systems is just too high.
Help is Here
For decades, businesses in various industries, operating on a wide variety of platform technologies, have turned to Rogue Wave products to help them build enduring, portable applications. Naturally, these companies have also turned to us to help them modernize and update these applications. But what some find surprising, is that many organizations even seek our help migrating legacy applications that weren’t previously built using our technology.
Moving away from outdated systems, compilers, languages, operating systems and databases requires a thorough understanding of the inner workings of both the new, and old, systems. Rogue Wave has been working with these platforms as they’ve evolved. Using that experience, we modernize applications so that they can be used with current technologies. Our professional services organization is staffed with field-tested veterans who leverage our cross-platform, cross-language expertise to ensure the successful migration of your applications.
For example:
- We know the issues around handling topics such as changes in bitness, endian, and OS or compiler-specific calls.
- We understand how to smoothly move from old versions of languages (such as C and C++) where the standard has dramatically changed over time.
- We know what tools and techniques must be sourced and applied when moving from one operating system to another, such as UNIX to Linux.
- We are familiar with many 3rd party tools, the evolution of their APIs and how to take advantage of the many enhancements that were introduced over time
- We are cross-database experts and can help if your choice of vendor has changed or if you are simply moving to a newer version
- We have the specialized products, such as Hydra Express, that can expose C and C++ applications as web services, to bring them into a company-wide SOA initiative. But we can also leverage this experience to modernize applications built using other languages as well.
Knowing in advance what challenges will be encountered reduces risk, saves time and minimizes disruption.
The Right Amount of Help
Often, the requirements of the migration project or the staffing of the team performing it, dictate how much outside assistance is needed. We get called on to perform various levels of service:
- Migration Assistance – one of our experts will work with your team to get the migration project off to a fast start, while training your team on best practices for completing the effort.
- Application Migration – hand over the migration project to our team of senior engineers and we will return the finished product ready for post-migration work.
- Application Migration and Maintenance – in addition to the Application Migration, we will have an architect look at your application to find areas for performance and maintenance improvement, fix bugs, and keep your application up to date into the future, acting as your application maintenance team.
- Application Migration and Modernization – migrating an application to current technologies is important, but why stop there? Let our experts work with you on making these assets even more useful by looking at ways to expose its services using Web Services and SOA.