The Self Directed Migration Method

CORE Migration’s Self Directed Migration Method provides organizations with a structured framework for modernizing legacy applications while maintaining control of development, testing, deployment, and long-term support.

CLIENT

GCG

METHOD

Self Directed Migration

TECHNOLOGY

PowerHouse & SQL Server

OUTCOME

Cleint-Led Modernization

How the Self Directed Migration Method Works

GCG needed to be closely involved with the migration process. Given their experience with the legacy system, the technical skills sets within their team and that they would continue to support their client, GCG chose CORE’s Self Directed Migration Method.

Core Migration’s Self Directed Migration Method is broken down into logical stages of the migration process. The CORE Migration team completed the initial stage of the migration process called Design Preservation. Once this stage was completed, CORE trained GCG’s staff on the Forward Engineering Toolkit which covers a broad spectrum of training from migration methodology from User Interface Training to deployment and maintenance management. During the Forward Engineering stage, GCG could access the repository from their site via a secure portal. The repository contained all the business logic and rules from GCG’s client’s application (populated in the Design preservation stage). GCG was able to use the forward engineering of the legacy source code, which is stored in the repository, to the target technology. The GCG team was able to easily follow the later phases of the migration from Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Acceptance Testing to Implementation.

Self Directed Migration Method process diagram

Design Preservation

CORE captures business rules and application logic.

Repository

Migration artifacts are stored in a central repository.

Forward Engineering

Client teams generate modern applications.

Testing

Unit, Functional, and Acceptance Testing.

Implementation

Deployment into production.

The CORE Migration team completed the database migration from Image (non-relational) on the HP e3000 to Microsoft SQL Server on Windows. Transact SQL procedures were created in order to update data in the underlying database.

In addition, CORE Migration was able to resolve several PowerHouse design issues for GCG. For example, the complexity of the system created challenges with PowerHouse’s file limitation (31 files in a program) which forced the GCG team to utilize ghost screens in order to get around the limitation. This proved to be very time consuming and labour intensive. The CORE Migration team provided an effective solution by removing the file number limitation so that an unlimited number of files could be used. This is how CORE’s Self Directed Migration Method was able to help modernize GCG’s legacy systems.

DATABASE MIGRATION

Migrated Image (non-relational) on the HP e3000 to Microsoft SQL Server on Windows.

POWERHOUSE OPTIMIZATION

Resolved PowerHouse design issues including removing the 31-file limitation to allow an unlimited number of files.

EFFECTIVE SOLUTION

Provided an effective solution to improve development efficiency and modernize GCG’s legacy systems.

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