The current technological context where software packages and programming languages evolve rapidly adapting to new needs and offering new services, forces companies which use them to keep up with a demanding pace of upgrades and modernization of its information systems.

Sometimes these technological upgrades are relegated to other business initiatives of a higher priority which IT departments must address first or due to the difficulty in finding technical and human resources to make daily maintenance compatible with these upgrade tasks.

Traditionally, companies have made the decision to face the challenge of modernizing their out-dated applications by replacing them and taking on big projects that address both functional expansion and technological upgrading. The risk such projects sometimes involve is leading more organizations to change their approach to these situations and choose to 'upgrade the technology platform' independently of functional renewal, thereby minimizing risk and ensuring results.

 

Scope of the technological migration service

At Newshore we identify two major scopes of the service:

Projects whose main objective is to improve maintainability, performance and longevity of difficult-to-replace systems. For which you wish to:

• Reduce the complexity of the code
• Increase modularity and portability
• Transfer and document knowledge

Projects whose main objective is the migration of programs and data among different versions of a package or among different packages. In this context, we are involved in projects such as:

• Upgrade of SAP versions
• Content Management Migration

 

Key success factors of the service

At Newshore we believe that the success of these projects is based on some key factors that must be properly balanced to optimise the risk-cost-time factor and create the differential approach of our company in these projects:

Tools Selection

Newshore has partnerships with companies which produce mature solutions that simplify and automate the following laborious tasks:

• Replacement of obsolete instructions
• Non-existent documentation creation
• Dead Code Detection
• Patterns of Reused Code Identification
• Extraction and loading of data to migrate

Sharing experience

Actively-involved staff who have built and maintained applications to migrate. Their collaboration at the early stage is the best guarantee of success in these projects.

Task Factoring

Just as these projects require the involvement of experienced staff from the early stages there is also a great deal of work and a lot of tasks that can be developed by independent teams that operate as a factory.