Legacy to Open Systems Migration

If today's dynamic environment is requiring you to reduce the cost of IT transactions, or to add agility to increase revenue, our IT services can help you align your technology with your business strategy. Our areas of IT expertise include:

A fast, low cost migration will result in a supportable, high performance, native open system with the exact business logic you rely on today. We've performed 100's of migrations on the largest mission-critical public safety, financial, healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, entertainment and governmental systems in the world—all with 100% success.

We have witnessed the maturing of migration as a business solution first hand. In 1985,
with proprietary systems dominating the market, the first real enterprise migration began
— to client-server systems.

The initial need was to migrate mainframe applications to this new "mini" server with
connected PC's. For some, this migration work was never completed, while others are
enjoying the benefits of openness, agility and low cost.

Each of these trends and events made the need to migrate business logic and data to newer
technology—a business imperative.

Early adopters paid a high price (in money and operational challenges), late-comers found
that they were losing market share to innovators with lower costs. Every cycle comes to an
inflection point were the technology, cost, and knowledge make migration not only widely
popular—but mandatory you protect and expand market position.

We are at a inflection point NOW. The current inflection point is being created because the
advantages of migration are so large, and the risks are so small.
The technology and migration issues that prevented migration no longer exist:

♦	Open systems provide better single system availability, disaster recovery and business continuation than mainframes and legacy systems.
♦	After 20 years, our automated tools have matured to a point where all combinations of conversions have been perfected—reducing time, cost and risk.
♦	End-of-life and declining vendor support is becoming prevalent at a time when there are more threats and need of assistance—legacy systems are putting the business at risk.
♦	The cost and inflexibility are broadening the productivity gap—making it harder to compete in a dynamic marketplace.
♦	Corporate consolidation and the need to team to provide complete solutions—requires a level of interoperability not available in legacy systems.
♦	The ability to find qualified legacy system support staff to run and troubleshoot the system—is becoming increasingly difficult
♦	The need to deliver services over the web—is limited by technologies that were designed before the advent of the web.

We hope you will find enough information at www.legacy-migration.com to decide to engage Unicon Conversion Technologies to complete the important work of bringing your systems into the 21st century.