Applications Modernization

Life to legacy applications

We can modernize your running applications by:

• Implementing web-enabling technologies
• Re-engineering older applications to contemporary platforms
• Re-hosting applications
• Re-developing applications for new platforms
• Building interfaces that extend life and reach
• Reverse-engineering poorly documented applications

We have extensive experience working with clients who need to retain their established business models, while adding web interfaces to their existing systems. Wherever applicable, we can reengineer applications to improve business functionality and ease of operation. 

How Can We Help

With the use of new technologies, Dell Services can help you:

• Address wider markets
• Enhance supplier interaction
• Standardize operations across your enterprise
• Interface with new business units after internal reorganizations, or merger and acquisition activities

Our robust migration methodologies and proven experience with the latest migration tools enable us to deliver projects more smoothly and efficiently. Solidifying in-place applications can deliver both short-term and long-term cost savings by reducing maintenance and upgrading performance. Additional benefits include a reduction in the issues associated with unsupported platforms, less reliance on scarce resources, and a reduction in skill set gaps, since we can effectively leverage past experience with multiple development platforms, both legacy and current.

Here is just one example of how we helped a client succeed:

Leading U.S.-based Healthcare Provider

We progressively migrated systems away from poorly documented applications housed on legacy mainframes onto more streamlined  AS/400 servers. The benefits included new functionality, increased performance, and an overall reduction in application management and development costs. 

Full solution lifecycle coverage

Our legacy modernization services cover the full project lifecycle. 

With Dell Services, you can count on a single provider to transform your IT systems and migrate them to modernized operating environments:

• Full cycle coverage from defining the roadmap to building the solution, to later maintaining it
• Leverage global delivery to reduce solution development and testing costs
• Automated migration wherever feasible, leading to fewer defects in transitioning
• Ability to allocate large teams to reduce solution development timeframes
• Ability to use high-efficiency paradigms such as SOA to help preserve IT investments, increase integration ability, and improve business agility