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Evaluating your Legacy Estate
The National Computing Centre and Erudine have produced definitive guidelines on how to examine your legacy systems and find the best approach to modernisation.
The National Computing Centre (NCC) is the largest corporate membership body in the UK IT sector, consistently providing the highest level of independent advice and support to the industry for the last 40 years.
The NCC regularly publishes guidelines for IT management to provide its members with as much information as possible for them to maintain competitiveness, keeping them abreast of the latest developments in technology and methodology.
The NCC’s back catalogue includes dozens of guidelines on numerous subjects from Managing Diversity to Web 2.0. Erudine is a recognised authority on the legacy issue, having built a reputation for challenging accepted legacy solutions and turning the very idea of legacy on its head.
In conjunction with the NCC, Erudine has produced a set of guidelines on evaluating your legacy estate, covering the recent emergence of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as an apparent solution to legacy systems, looking at both sides of the modernisation argument, and presenting an overview of the various modernisation techniques.
Legacy is a divisive issue in the IT industry; some see it as a problem requiring an urgent and effective solution, others refuse to accept it as a problem at all. One fact that remains undeniable is the rising cost of system maintenance across the entire sector.
The NCC-Erudine paper, Evaluating Your Legacy Estate, is an authoritative, insightful guide to navigating the legacy issue, with advice on how to reduce your maintenance burden. Subjects covered in The Evaluating Your Legacy Estate guidelines include:
- What is a legacy system?
- SOA and legacy
- Successful SOA
- Evaluating a legacy system
- How modernisation works
- Testing
Find out more about NCC at www.ncc.co.uk