Business demands and technology challenges sometimes create the need for migration of applications or databases from one environment to another, either to improve operational efficiency or to manage risk. An organisation may decide to reduce risks by moving away from an environment that has scarcity of skilled personnel and vendor support issues. OmkarSoft can help clients to migrate to new technologies while extending the life cycle of their functionality rich existing/legacy systems. Projects include re-engineering software to migrate applications legacy systems to client/server architectures, to extend existing applications to the Internet, to migrate from existing applications to UNIX or Windows NT, or to update from a non-relational to a relational database technology.

Why Migrate?

Companies consider migrating due to one of the following reasons:

  • Consolidation: to reduce the number of database platforms to enable better data sharing.
  • Internet: to take advantage of Internet technologies and make their data accessible via the web.
  • Legacy: to replace platforms no longer of strategic value.
  • Security: to make applications unbreakable.
  • Availability: to provide better scalability, reliability and increased performance.

The scope of the migration can vary:

  • porting of legacy application
  • software (3GL code, user-interface and middleware)
  • database conversion
  • web-enabling
  • migration to a new operating system or platform
  • Migrating to Linux

Our migration team provides an accurate count of applications affected by the migration, defines migration issues by count and severity, and outlines a delivery plan and a cost model to complete the migration.

Linux Migration

In an environment where IT costs are being closely monitored and there is a critical need for more flexibility, LINUX is becoming an increasingly attractive platform. OmkarSoft’s Linux Migration offering helps organization migrate from their current proprietary Operating System/ platforms to LINUX based platforms in a phased and de-risked manner. With this consulting practice, our clients get a roadmap and the tools to move to the LINUX environment in a phased and calibrated manner so that risk is minimized, without having to sacrifice any of the significant parameters.

Advantages of Linux

  • Linux is free, you don’t have to pay any license fee
  • Linux rarely fails – mean time between failures is measured in months and often years;
  • Linux is virus resistant by design;
  • Linux runs well on low performance PCs as well as the latest powerful 64 bit processors;