Micro Focus White Paper Sample

The overriding pressure on IT managers is to do more in less time, spending less money, and to extract the most value from their business application portfolio. In taking those applications forward there are choices to be made between retaining and reusing the existing applications, replacing them with a packaged solution, or converting them to another language or platform from which greater value can be obtained. Each option has associated costs and risks that vary with the size of the application and the scope of the modernization ambitions for those applications.

The issues and benefits remain fairly constant regardless of the size and complexity of the application so this document will focus on the issues and benefits rather than trying to derive cost estimates. That can be done in a more subjective manner once the issues and benefits have been identified. During the remainder of this document, the package solution can be regarded as any appropriate package, and language conversion is limited to conversion from COBOL to Java…