Helping reduce risk when moving to a new platform
When new technology hits the market, your IT organization is often torn between the benefits of innovation and the cost of change - a change that will eventually be pervasive. The key to successful change is a smooth, phased transition that allows technological advancements to be fully exploited.
The software consulting and development experts at HP Services can help.
Taking a step-by-step approach
Introducing a new platform invariably requires replacing, porting or re-engineering packaged- and custom-developed applications to help ensure that they work in the new environment. In the process, you have to address critical questions such as:
- How do we ensure that applications will deliver the same performance and functionality once they have been recompiled and deployed?
- How do we ramp-up resources in a limited period of time to execute the port rapidly, without interrupting development projects and activities?
- How do we minimize the risk associated with doing a migration from old to new technology?
To address these challenges HP Services professionals offer project-based porting and migration services with a fixed price, scope, and timeframe - backed by the ability to rapidly mobilize resources for on-site and/or off-shore services delivery. Our proven approach hinges on these two key services:
Application Survey - We submit a questionnaire that's designed to help us get a comprehensive view of your current application environment, architecture, and functionality, situation. The completed survey provides the basis for determining the desired future state and the alternative paths to be explored to obtain it.
Porting & Migration Assessment - HP Services experts then provide a detailed assessment of your business applications, databases, data, and platforms. Through workshops you take a closer look at business drivers and the impact of change. The outcome includes specifics on migration strategies, applications to be ported, an application integration plan, resources needed, gap analysis, and step-by-step deliverables.
From any environment to any environment
Of course we can move your business from Tru64UNIX, NonStop, or HP 3000s to HP-UX, LINUX, or Windows environments. What you might not expect is that our software professionals daily include Sun, IBM, and Dell platforms in migration efforts - and that we handle almost every flavor of database, be it DB2 on a mainframe, Oracle on HP-UX, SQL Server, Sybase on Sun, or Allbase. You name the platform or application, we can move it.
Proven methodology built on broad platform and application experience
We've performed more than 100 major migration projects involving several million lines of code for customers with business-critical application environments. Every project follows set steps, according to requirements as defined in your detailed migration proposal. Tailored to your unique needs, these include:
- Phase 1 - planned and detailed assessment
- Phase 2 - tools development and customization
- Phase 3 - test migration
- Phase 4 - application migration
- Phase 5 - acceptance
- phase 6 - installation, warranty, and product support
Our collaborative approach allows you to maintain control of strategic business applications while, at the same time, leveraging our software consulting and development expertise. As always, the quality of HP engineering is passed on to your organization through our rigorous knowledge transfer commitment.
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