Application Modernization

Almost every enterprise operates with legacy applications. Most of, these applications are stable but they tend to be inflexible, expensive and difficult to maintain. It is estimated that 60-80 percent of an average company's IT budget is spent on maintaining legacy applications and hardware they run on.

Today’s enterprises must respond to the ever changing business practices of commerce and purchasing habits of consumers, brought about by the Internet. Most legacy applications are not designed to handle the demands the Internet has placed on computing systems—such as real-time order processing and managing high-bandwidth demands. Though not every legacy application needs a complete overhaul, the harsh reality is that all legacy systems, at a minimum, must be Web-enabled if a business is to grow and remain responsive to market demands.

Modernizing legacy applications used to be a huge task. Looking back a decade, there were few options for migrating or renovating applications. One could either re-build or replace software systems, and either choice was extremely time-consuming and expensive. Today, businesses have more options than simply replace or rebuild. There are tools that help analyze legacy data, plucking out relevant business rules and rewriting them in JAVA or .NET, to construct a Web front end on an intact legacy database.

Even more exciting is the infrastructure that CHAMPS Software, Inc. has developed to modernize any ODBC compliant database application quickly and cost effectively. The tools and techniques we utilize enable us to deliver web architected solutions based on your existing databases and business processes. Substantial savings in cost and accelerated schedules are achieved through deployment of the reusable administrative and foundation components that are already developed. We work with your team to ensure that your goals and objectives for the modernization project are completely achieved.

Here are a few examples of some modernized applications: