Opportunities & Benefits
Updating legacy business systems represents a significant investment in terms of time, effort and money.
A "like-for-like" approach will achieve the software and hardware currency objectives but is unikley to exploit the many opportunities to transform and optimise the target platform.
The Agenor approach is to look at all the opportunties to make the most out of an investment in legacy systems migrations.
Our aim is to deliver a solution design that achieves not only the basic currency objectives but also delivers much more in terms of strategic and operational benefits.
There are many additional benefits that can be obtained by asking the following questions:
- Can we migrate various source systems on different platforms to achieve a common solution?
- Can we move away from high cost, proprietary software and hardware to lower cost, standards-based solutions?
- Can we harmonise our support model as part of the migration?
- Can we reduce recurring operating costs? (e.g. software licences, hardware maintenance)
- Can we virtualise the environment to reduce the hardware footprint?
- Can we exploit virtualisation to provide additional benefits such as enhanced provisioning, HA and DR?
- Can we reduce data centre resource consumption? (e.g. floorspace, power consumption, cooling costs etc)
- Can we achieve a common solution for enhanced monitoring, security and capacity provisioning?
- Can we increase the overall benefits by addressing the various environments across the full lifecycle? (i.e. Test, Dev, Production & DR)
- Can we examine the desktop estate to drive out benefits at this tier in the end-to-end solution?
By embracing this approach, Agenor believes that the Business Case for legacy systems migration can be a compelling one.