With the advent of the “Internet age,” the potential benefits of replacing legacy systems are greater than any other time in the history of computing.

There are, of course, the normal reasons to periodically enhance or re-implement older applications. Business needs change, new and better business processes require changes to the supporting software.

But here are some of the additional benefits you can derive from converting legacy systems to exploit features of Internet technology like web services, browser access to applications from any location, XML-based inter-application communication and others:

• Loosely-coupled integration of business applications. Through the use of web service interfaces, applications can be made to “talk to each other” much more easily and safely than ever before. This is not limited only to new systems—web service interfaces can be created for existing legacy systems, behind which we can service requests by invoking legacy functionality or accessing legacy databases.
• Access for business partners. Using web services and XML-based communication you can offer your business partners secure, automated access to selected business data and processes.
• Access by in-house systems to systems of business partners. Similarly, your own in-house systems can be enhanced to interact, to the extent you wish, directly with business partner systems which offer web service interfaces.
• Web-based interface for customers. By now, virtually all companies provide their customers with some web-based access to information and processes. It should be part of any legacy conversion to consider the value of adding web-based access for customers.
• Web-based interfaces for in-house users. After legacy systems are converted they can provide secure, browser-based access for in-house users from anywhere in the world. This can be a big boost for user productivity and reduce IT costs by replacing systems formerly deployed as “fat clients” on multiple user machines.
• Lower-cost evolution behind business process interfaces. When applications rely on industry-standard web service interfaces for their interaction, then behind these interfaces, applications can change or even be re-implemented without creating incompatibilities with “partner applications,” whether they be in-house systems or those of outside business partners.

Our understanding of business practices and business software applications pays off in conversion of legacy systems just as it does in new business applications built from the ground up. We can quickly understand your business model and your objectives, can propose several approaches to converting your system, taking full advantage of Internet technologies, and can then document the value proposition for each. You choose the approach that seems best to you, and we’ll make it happen.

• We care about the quality of our work—not just from the “technical” point of view, but also from the standpoint of benefits you can receive, and the cost-effectiveness of the work we do.
• We know that software, including converted legacy applications, can be even more effective and easier to use than you hoped at the beginning of the project. We know how to make that happen.
• We always stand behind our work. Every project has a two-year warranty.
• We have proved that our work is consistently of the highest quality. Scores of clients and hundreds of successful software applications attest to that.
• We are easy to work with, flexible in organizing projects so they will be compatible with your specific goals and ways of doing business.