TransMigration

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.

And that's just the beginning. In most cases, we can exploit 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:

1. Understand the value
   Like any investment portfolio, a legacy systems portfolio usually contains winners and losers. The goal is to maximise winners and balance risk across the portfolio. Fujitsu can document legacy assets, identify their business value, and help to plan a cost-effective solution with manageable risk and reduced total cost of ownership.
2. Implement the change
   Once the solution has been identified, the 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.
3. Manage the benefits
   The ongoing success of the solution depends on expert management of both legacy and 'new world' applications and infrastructure environments. 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 TransMigration 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 can migrate your current applications to a new open systems environment.

Re-platforming - Fujitsu can move your applications from one physical environment to another with minimal business impact.

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

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

Managed services - Fujitsu can take full responsibility for all 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 of many languages/databases into a web browser engine. This can be run many times to keep your applications documentation up to date.

Why Fujitsu?

• Creative financial/commercial models to suit your business needs
• End-to-end solutions with a single point of accountability
• Extensive experience of planning, designing and implementing legacy systems and 'new world' technologies
• Proven methodologies (Macroscope)
• 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 TransMigration 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.

What do we TransMigrate?

The Languages we migrate from include but are not limited to:

• COBOL
• RPG
• PL/1
• Natural
• OpenRoad ABF
• CSP (VisualAge)
• LINC
• Oracle Forms
• PowerBuilder
• Centura
• Visual Basic
• ASP Classic
• C/C++
• Scripts (e.g. JCL)
• Forte
• Delphi
• Informix

The Databases we migrate from include but are not limited to:

• Network
• Relational
• Hierarchical
• Adabas
• Ingres

The Emulators we migrate to include but are not limited to:

• z/OS emulator
• OpenVMS emulator

More information

Contact Chris Gaskin
Manager, TransMigration Services
Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand
Email: transmigration@au.fujitsu.com
Phone: +61 2 9113 9368