What factors drive the need for migration?
There are a variety of reasons why an organization would consider migrating a current production application or system. In addition to preserving the integrity and tremendous financial investment of the existing software systems, migration provides solutions to challenges facing programmers and IT Managers. Challenges that drive the need for migration include: • Dwindling Vendor Support Services As a software or hardware platform loses market momentum, the resources allocated by the vendors to support it are reduced. Company programmers and professionals begin to lose confidence and wonder where they will turn if parts of their production software systems go awry. It then becomes necessary to investigate alternative solutions that will provide solid, long-term vendor support. • Standardization Decisions Migration transforms non-compliant applications into systems that conform to sweeping language, tools and platform standardizations within an organization. • Expert Staffing Shortage As
