Legacy Modernisation

The Challenge

You inherited a system that was once, perhaps, state of the art. Now it's inflexible, unsupportable and difficult to maintain and extend. Sooner or later you are going to have to revitalise, or even replace, your legacy technology.

On average, 60 per cent of a company's IT budget is spent on maintaining legacy systems. It's no surprise then that many organisations are looking for ways to reduce these costs and free up funds for investment in business growth.

The Solution

Fujitsu can reduce legacy system migration costs and timeframes by up to 50 per cent.

In most cases, we can take advantage of lower support, licensing and infrastructure maintenance costs to reduce operating costs by 15-25 per cent.

Fujitsu's approach to successful business transformation comprises three key steps:

• Understand the value
  As with any investment portfolio, legacy systems usually contain winners and losers. The goal is to maximise both and balance the risk across the portfolio. Fujitsu can document legacy assets, identify their business value, and help to plan a cost-effective solution with manageable risk while reducing the total cost of ownership.
• Implement the change
  Once the solution has been identified, change needs to be implemented with minimum impact on your day-to-day operations. Fujitsu can leverage your existing infrastructure, while reducing the cost of sustaining the environment.
• Manage the benefits
  Ongoing success of the solution depends on expert management of both legacy and 'new world' applications within in the infrastructure environment. Supported by our award-winning Macroscope methodology, nationwide data centres, infrastructure management facilities and application outsourcing experience, Fujitsu is a market leader in the delivery of managed services.

The Benefits

• Reduce legacy system migration costs and timeframes by up to 50 per cent
• Reduce operating costs by 15-25 per cent
• Leverage investment in legacy assets
• Reduce the risk associated with implementing new technologies
• Increase business agility
• Improve access to information for staff and customers

Our Services

Fujitsu offers a range of Legacy Modernisation services that comprehensively address all three stages:

Application value assessment - Fujitsu will help you assess key legacy system information and provide an objective report that identifies areas where action is required.

Migration planning - Once the value of the legacy system is understood, Fujitsu can develop a roadmap that identifies key business objectives and the path to achieve them. This roadmap highlights risks, corroborates the expected outcomes and ensures that people, process and technology issues are understood and aligned to business priorities.

Application migration and data conversion - To improve functionality while maintaining business rules, Fujitsu will migrate your current applications to a new open systems environment.

Re-platforming - Fujitsu moves your applications from one physical environment to another with minimal business impact if required.

Legacy extension and integration - Fujitsu works to improve the flexibility and responsiveness of your legacy systems through integration and Web-enablement.

Complete Legacy Modernisation solutions - For complex heterogeneous environments, Fujitsu can provide end-to-end solutions combining re-platforming, migration, extension and replacement.

Managed services - Fujitsu provides complete management of all your IT services, managing assets, staff and infrastructure as required. Services can be delivered on- or off-site, or through our network of global delivery centres.

Redocumentation - A full and automatic snap shot documentation process for you current systems to give functionally rich and accurate view of of your systems in English. This can be run many times to keep your applications documentation up to date and is useful for clients that need to size and scope changes, identify business processes, train technical staff, show IT complicance and be sure that the documentation exactly reflects the system

Why Fujitsu?

• Creative financial/commercial models to suit your business requirements
• End-to-end solutions with a single point of accountability
• Extensive experience in planning, designing, migration and implementation of legacy systems and 'new world' technologies
• Proven methodologies (Macroscope)
• Certifications of International standards of excellence (ISO 9000, ITIL, CMM)
• Experience with automated legacy system conversion and documentation
• Capability and experience in J2EE and Microsoft .NET solutions
• Ability to deliver using on-shore or off-shore resources
• Ability to work with your existing IT staff in a combined delivery team
• Access to global resources with experience assisting major corporate and government sector organisations
• Knowledge of legacy system hardware and software for all major vendor systems
• Unique range of software products that assist in the transformation of legacy environments
• Successful track record in delivering more than 20 Legacy Modernisation projects for leading Australian organisations including QBE Insurance, Medibank Private Limited, Origin Energy, Telstra, Victorian Office of Housing, VicRoads, TAC, AWB and Department of Health and Ageing.