The document discusses challenges with modernizing legacy applications, including containing maintenance costs and adapting to changing technology. It notes that VB6 and ASP are becoming outdated and that migrating VB code to newer platforms like C# represents a large market opportunity. A case study is presented of a company that migrated 1.2 million lines of VB6 code to C# using Great Migrations tools, coming in under budget and on schedule while experiencing minimal business disruption during the migration. The methodology used by Great Migrations for migrations is described as tool-assisted, agile, iterative and aimed at balancing risk, cost, and business disruption.
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1. A Presentation to Central Ohio Application Lifecycle Management Group July 1, 2010 Mark Juras Great Migrations LLC [email_address] Software Modernization
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4. Business Case for Migration If its not broken ... So what? It Will Be!
Why is platform change so hard? People Products Process Pain – reduced agility
The Business Case for a Migration The business case for a migration is predicated on two things: the migration will allow you to take advantage of capabilities of the new platform, and the migrate will give you access to the community and vendor support for the new platform. We will assume the new platform measurably out performs the legacy platform in terms of capability and support, but your mileage will vary according to your specific business needs and the value you place on community support, including the supply of skilled developers. Most often, the reality of platform change is that you just have to migrate. The only question is how to do it – in a timely and cost effective fashion. Benefits of .NET Adoption People : Access to a larger, more skilled and enthusiastic IT professionals Products : Access to next generation commercial and open source solutions boost innovation Process : Access to next generation IT tools and techniques boost efficiency Profits : Improved system effectiveness through IT agility Risks of VB6 Stagnation People: Staffing challenges, reluctant professionals, higher recruiting and staffing costs Products: Lost vendor and community support Process: Increasing costs, increasing risks, and eventual crisis Pain: Technical Risk and Business Risk
Key Dates 1990s: Rise of Classic VB (peak 3M developers) 1998: Last major release of Classic VB 2002: Microsoft releases .NET 2005: End of mainstream VB support 2008: End of extended VB support 2010: .Win7, NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 2015: The Future without Classic VB
Last major release of these languages was in 1998 (Visual Studio 6). People: Staffing challenges, higher recruiting and staffing costs Products: Lost vendor and community support; inability to integrate Process: Increasing costs, increasing risks, and eventual crisis Pain: Security Vulnerability, Incompatibilities, System Failures, Business Disruption Where are you in grieving process? Denial? Anger? Bargaining? Depression? Acceptance?
How big is this market. Driver, Mark. Visual Basic 6: Setting End-of-Life Migration Priorities. G001 52272. Gartner. 14 Dec.2007. Driver, Mark, R. Valdes. A Cost Model For .NET Conversion. COM-16-1385. Gartner. 2 Jun.2002. R. Valdes, M. Driver. .NET Migration: Easier Said Than Done DF-18-2477 Gartner. 17 Sep.2002 Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester Research, Migration Market Analysis Report , April 2010
What is a Migration Project? An example of a migration project would be to begin with an application written in Visual Basic (using various COM libraries) and replace it with a similar application written in C# (using the .NET framework). The distinguishing assumptions of a typical migration project are listed below: You have a reason and ideally a clear business case to migrate your legacy system to the new platform. You have to make architectural improvements as you migrate to the new platform. You are actively maintaining your legacy codebase. You want to migrate without breaking the legacy functionality You want the new system to be more maintainable than the legacy system. You want to migrate efficiently, with minimal disruption to the users of the system and other ongoing work. Jeff Haskett, General Manager, Application Development Group, BMW FS BMW Financial Services of North America (Nov 2007) 5550 Britton Parkway Hilliard, OH 43026 (614) 718-6901 "We knew that taking our business critical systems through such a huge transformation would be challenging. We needed an approach that not only minimized cost and ensured quality but would insulate our business from disruption. We built new architecture frameworks as a part of the project, and the Promula translation tools were an essential part of our strategy. These tools, tuned by Promula to our specifications, have given us the planning flexibility we needed to incorporate the migration into our release process. To this point, we have migrated about 50% of our portfolio, with few of our business users even knowing we were doing it. We are on schedule and on budget to complete the migration by March 2008."
Purpose of this Slide Explain how we take advantage of gmBasic’s flexibility to tune the translation and ensure an efficient migration to the desired target. Preparation : organizing the source codebase, defining migration requirements. Translation : converting the source codebase to the target codebase Verification : inspecting the target codebase for functional an architectural quality Cut Over : taking the target codebase through final testing and deployment to production Key Points Iterative Process Tune as much as makes sense Cutover and migrate when you are ready and you have a plan for resolving any open issues
Purpose of this Slide Explain how we take advantage of gmBasic’s flexibility to tune the translation and ensure an efficient migration to the desired target. Preparation : organizing the source codebase, defining migration requirements. Translation : converting the source codebase to the target codebase Verification : inspecting the target codebase for functional an architectural quality Cut Over : taking the target codebase through final testing and deployment to production Key Points Iterative Process Tune as much as makes sense Cutover and migrate when you are ready and you have a plan for resolving any open issues
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