Process Oriented Planning - When making the decision to undertake any major IT project, it’s important for companies to consider a number of key requirements to accomplish both short and long term goals. A little work up front can save a lot of time in the long run. The importance of process oriented planning is critical in determining the goals of a project, the resources that will be utilized and the duration of a project. Once these critical requirements are examined and documented, companies can better determine the return on investment and plan for future improvements...
Top 10 Tips For Legacy Rejuvenation - In these times of financial upheaval legacy IT platforms can easily become a beacon of inefficiency, as they consume more monetary, physical and human resources than their modern counterparts. However, they support important applications, services and data, otherwise you would not be running them, but this often implies a risk of system failure. With capital expenditure on replacement applications being limited in the current economic climate, many organizations will now be re-looking at their existing legacy systems in order to add functionality rather than replace them...
Migrating from OpenVMS in a cost-effective manner - Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced end-of-life for the Alpha server. Some users will want to move off OpenVMS to an open systems platform rather than transition to OpenVMS on the new HP Integrity server. This could be for a number of reasons, including the desire to support a single operating system, for better application integration or running costs reduction...
Migrating from HP e3000 in a cost-effective manner - With the HP e3000 end-of-life announcement, not only does your IT management have its pressing new business requirements to consider, but also how to get off the HP e3000 platform. How can both priorities continue to be met? The options for moving off the HP e3000 are application replacement, either through a package implementation or re-development, or application migration. Why migrate...
Facing the two core challenges of IBM i centric businesses today - This white paper discusses the frustrations many IBM i users feel with the green screen user interfaces and looks at the options available to resolve this. It also examines the reasons users might want to migrate off of RPG, and perhaps even the IBM i platform and the benefits that might be achieved.
Migrating from VB6 to .NET in a cost-effective manner - With so many firms using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) as their primary development environment, the difficulty in achieving flexibility and cost-effectiveness has been intensified by Microsoft’s announcements regarding termination of support for the VB6 IDE and future support of the VB6 runtime...
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