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 of Porting, Migration and Re-engineering.
We at Global Insight Software have been working on legacy application re-engineering for the past many years.
Some of the benefits that enterprise may reap from our experience are as follows :