The MOD Group uses automation to reduce the cost and time involved in the modernization process and securing the following benefits:
- Leveraging Mature Compiler based automation (a decade in development)
- Migrating all of your legacy system in a consistent way
- Accurately converting all legacy system components
- Rule-Based Migration increases accuracy through an iterative approach
- Significantly reducing risk - incorporates changes up to the last iteration
- Cutting cost and time (usually completed within one budget cycle)
The Challenges of Migrating Application Systems
Savvy IT Executives know the risk of missed requirements in the traditional manual migration project. If any critical factors are overlooked, your endeavor can be sent off course, causing increased cost and risk to the project.
Business applications are as critical to an organization as people or capital. Under-performing mission-critical applications monopolize resources, therefore, starving other parts of business. Properly aligned with strategic business goals, modernized applications can help transform a company.
The MOD Group helps companies avoid missed requirements by completely converting your source code using powerful DMS Modernization Technology.
This enables you to capture and leverage the functionality of your legacy system in a new, more adaptable set of languages (such as Java/J2EE or C#.NET) and database technology.
TMG Solutions use automation to migrate a complete legacy system (programs/ screens/ data scheme/ database, etc) into a new technology implementation. These projects bring significant new value to your business.
Traditional vs. TMG Migration
| Traditional Manual Migration | TMG Automated Migration |
| Large teams - difficult communication. | Small team of experts - streamlined communication. |
| Time consuming requirements effort - many missed requirements. | All functionality of current system is replicated - no requirements missed. |
| Protracted integration & testing to fix and/or add missed functionality. | With automated migration - no missed functionality. Testing involves comparison of input and output of legacy system to migrated system. |
| Maintenance to legacy system during project can significantly extend migration or be left out. | TMG migration approach is iterative and will include all maintenance changes up to the last full migration cycle. |
| Can take 2-5 years - many are cancelled. | TMG Migration projects typically take less than 12 months - therefore can be included in a single budget cycle. |
Your Job is to Move Your Business Forward
- TMG focus on:
- Expert Automated Modernization Services
- Lowest Risk
- Take you from maintenance to maintenance
- Your IT Groups focus on:
- Improve Business Processes
- Prepare your team for new technologies
- Maintenance of the new system
Comparison of Traditional Migration Project to TMG Solution:
Million Source Code Lines of Legacy COBOL
Traditional Manual Migration
- 2-3 years minimum (Many of these projects are never completed)
- 100 LOC converted / day / developer = 40 FTE years = $3 - $5 Million
- High Risk of Missed Functionality
- Ongoing maintenance of the system during the project will mean that significant new functionality will not be converted or will delay the migration project
- Additional 1-2 years of testing and integration ~$2 Million in testing costs
- Total Cost $5-7 Million
TMG Rules-Based Migration
- Less than 12 months
- Total Project $1 - $3 Million
- 100% replication of functionality
- Highly maintainable consistent source code
- All maintenance changes are included in the final migration
- Significantly lower testing costs
- Less than 12 months
- Total Project $1 - $3 Million
- 100% replication of functionality
- Highly maintainable consistent source code
- All maintenance changes are included in the final migration
- Significantly lower testing costs
TMG uses automation to lower modernization costs and enable consistent quality in your legacy system migration project. Our automated solution delivers high quality converted source code and database for your entire application.
Our verification process compares the original system functionality to the newly converted system. This comparison is accomplished by using your current testing methods with additional tests being developed as necessary. The testing methods are implemented on both the legacy system and the new technology system. Once you are in production on the new technology, the testing that was used for validation can be used for regression testing during maintenance.
Addressing Risk
The process of modernizing applications can be risky, complex, and costly if not executed effectively. We address the risks of migrating systems by:
- Using powerful compiler-based technology that automates the high risk portion of the modernization task.
- Improve planning and execution through better knowledge of your existing system - our Assessment Process.
- No loss of functionality from your legacy platform since our automation processes all of your legacy system.
- Improved maintainability by migrating the legacy system to the new technology (Java/J2EE) through consistent translation of the legacy system.
The MOD Group uses DMS Software Modernization Technology to reduce the cost and time involved in your modernization project:
- 40-60% gain in project schedule
- 30-50% lower cost
- Lowest risk