CONVERSION
Introduction
Conversion is part of the Migration Services. It supports automated and semi-automated application
changes and platform migrations.
Conversion serves the IT department that needs to make large-scale application changes or
platform migrations, e.g. migrating to different database management systems or migrate to
a different programming language/environment.
Keywords: code conversion, data conversion, automated source code conversion, platform
migration, database migration.
The audience is ICT management and migration teams.
Purpose of the service
The main purpose of Conversion is to perform a detailed analysis of the impact of large-scale
application changes and platform migration, and to perform automated and semi-automated application
changes.
Conversion builds on the Baseline Assessment which establishes a knowledge base of all application
characteristics and services to pinpoint impacted areas and enable automated conversion.
Required
input |
Process
overview |
Output |
-
Customer’s migration plans |
-
Customer’s solution strategies |
| -
Application source code |
| -
Application |
| |
design/maintenance |
| |
documentation |
| |
testscripts |
|
| - Interview
stakeholders to understand migration plans |
| - Intake
of source code and documentation |
| - Inventory
of source code and documentation |
| - Build
Meta Repository |
| - Detailed
impact analysis |
| - Customize
code converter |
| - Customize
data converter |
| - Automated
application code and data changes |
| - Application
testing |
|
| -
Application overview, indicating |
| |
Inventory of software components |
| |
Size metrics |
| -
Application Changes |
| |
Detailed impact analysis |
| |
Code/Data converter |
| |
Changed application code and data |
| -
Documentation |
| |
Detailed impact analysis |
| |
Detailed change reports |
| |
Detailed test reports |
|
| Characteristics |
Advantages |
| - Identification
of all application changes |
| - Code
and Data conversion |
| - Automated |
| - Processing
time, 6-10 weeks |
|
| - Reduces
required resources and time |
| - Robustness |
| - Traceability |
| - Cost
effective |
| - Based
on automated, repeatable process |
|
For more information about Conversion please
contact us.