Product platform migration

Technology changes are changing the manner of doing business. These technology change waves and consumer preferences associated with them create multiple challenges and opportunities for ISVs and software product companies.

As every product is having its own lifecycle, towards the end of product's life-cycle you start getting the feedback from your existing customers like: high maintainability, performance not matching new customer's expectations, difficulties in integrating the product with other IT solutions, not attractive user interface, difficulties in operating the product, old architecture not supporting the latest technology and business trends. These are the early indicators that the stable and successful product needs to be migrated to re-address the market needs.

Currently major technology drivers for product platform migration and re-engineering include need to build component-based, service-oriented architecture's (SOA),improving product usability using AJAX capabilities or supporting Software as a Service (SaaS) product delivery platforms utilizing web services integration capabilities.

Changing or adding a platform is a big decision - it requires assessment of market opportunities, validating feasibility, plan for new architecture, and estimation of cost and effort, all of which take resources and cost. e-Zest can help you in this decision making process and provide solutions which meet or exceed your expectations.

Some of the key service offerings in product porting and platform migration by e-Zest include

• Operating System Platform Migration (Linux, Solaris, Windows)
• Migration of legacy products to .NET Platform (From Delhi, FoxPro, Fortran, VC++, MS- Access based products to Dot Net or JEE))
• .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0 or .NET 1.x/2.0 to .NET 3.0 Migration
• J2EE to .NET Migration and vice versa
• Proprietary architecture to open, standards-based architecture (Migration to Struts, EJB,Smarty frameworks)
• Database migration (for example SQL Server, Oracle, DB2)
• Programming Language migration (Migration of PHP, Perl based applications)
• Platform Interoperability (Palm OS based applications, BREW based applications to Dot Net Compact)

e-Zest has experience and expertise in re-architecture, migration and re-engineering of complex software products built on legacy platforms. We have worked on legacy product platform and re-engineering assignments spanning across all leading-edge development platforms, such as J2EE and .Net, on a variety of operating systems, databases (relational and object), and application (Java EE/J2EE-based) servers.

e-Zest Advantages :

• Quicker time-to-market leveraging e-Zest product development capabilities
• Minimize overall development cost by providing product sustenance support
• Attract new customers with a competitive product capabilities to serve wider market
• Enable development of high performance,scalable and robust product platforms leveraging new technology and architectural platforms

Case Studies on Product Migration/Re-engineering :

1. Workforce Scheduler
2. Interactive Tutorial Developer
3. Work-flow Manager