To ensure business agility, organizations need to keep their IT assets up-to-date. Dealing with high maintenance costs, lack of expertise and inability to adapt to dynamic business requirements can hamper growth. However, migration of legacy systems and applications can be a very complex process requiring extensive experience and domain expertise. Birlasoft provides Microsoft .NET Application Migration and Integration solutions that enable organizations to smoothly transition into their new environment, with enhanced flexibility at minimal costs.

Client Challenges

Some challenges that organizations face with legacy applications are:

• No/Obsolete Design Documentation: Application/Product was created 5-10 years ago with obsolete or no design documentation
• Old/Non Universal Style of Coding: Application maintained over the years by different vendors and different members, thereby creating variations in the style of coding
• Lack of Reusability: Limited business knowledge leads to obsolete code as the new developer/designer prefers to write new function/method so that's its scope is limited to a new functionality
• Incomplete Test Scenarios/Obsolete Code: If there exist 100 test-cases for the application/product then it should cover at least 80% of the code so there can be two scenarios:
  • Either test scenarios are not complete
  • OR there is obsolete code existing in application/Product
• New Vendor/Recruit has Long-Learning Curve: Lack of documentation requires more time to understand the system
• Customization/Changes Take Long Time: Keeping with ever-changing government rules & regulations, and customer requirements becomes time-intensive. Small CR (Change Request) could take weeks or months to implement, which results in loss of opportunity

What Birlasoft Provides

Birlasoft's Reverse Engineering for .NET applications includes the following services:

• Creating a Design document such as, Use case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Call Graph etc.
• Providing a universal style of coding and ensuring use of best practices followed across the industry, to facilitate adoption of future changes
• Use of Dependency tree to identify the impact, which in turn minimizes writing of new code and improves reusability
• Unit test cases generated with the help of latest tools (VS 2010)
• With the help of NCover, obsolete code is identified and removed
• Complete end-to-end documentation that helps in reducing the learning curve
• Provide limitation of current architecture on the following perspectives:
  • Extensibility
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
  • Modularity
  • Interoperability
  • Ease of integration
  • Flexibility
  • Configurability
  • Adaptability

Business Value

Birlasoft's .NET solutions enable organizations to attain benefits such as:

• Improved time-to-market, by making documentation available for Impact analysis & customization
• Improved efficiency of IT staff with:
  • Reduced learning curve
  • Availability of latest tools
• Alignment with best practices used across the industry
• Better understanding of priorities and trade-offs
• Documentation of reusable services, components for future use