Organizations are looking for ways to reduce costs and improve the accessibility of legacy applications. Sometimes, meeting this objective involves moving from a traditional mainframe to client/server or web architecture. Increasingly, it means moving from early client/server to web. Either way, IPCS is prepared to assist throughout the process.

IPCS helps clients to determine the right target architecture to meet your needs, business and technical. We investigate all factors that affect the right choice including:

• Application characteristics
• Existing infrastructure
• Maintenance issues
• Degree of functional enhancement sought
• Time available
• Alignment with overall strategic plans
• Reengineered solutions

Once the target architecture is decided, IPCS can help you to re-engineer the legacy application or recreate it to meet today's business needs. Typically, re-engineering is an opportunity to get rid of the problems, technology limitations of the existing systems and related maintenance issues.

IPCS works with the client teams to design newer versions of the system, redesigning databases, migrating data, rebuilding or creating new interfaces to other systems, etc. Just as in any system development we do, we also support implementation, training, and maintenance.

Once done, you'll have useful, current system documentation - something that rarely exists with legacy applications!