The Transition of Legacy Systems to a Distributed Architecture

A comprehensive road map for making the transition from mainframe systems to a client/server environmentIn this groundbreaking exploration of one of the knottiest problems in corporate reengineering today, Narsim Ganti and William Brayman clearly explain the conceptual foundations of migrating legacy systems. They outline a series of rational steps IS managers can take to realign their organizations' information technology with changing business strategies. Packed with cutting-edge strategies and techniques for making the transition as painless and effortless as possible, this book arms readers with: A groundbreaking, architecture-based approach to migrating legacy systems New methods for releasing data embedded in legacy systems to a distributed environment Guidelines on visualizing the transition process from both an enterprise and end-user perspective Proven techniques for applying the concepts of business process redesign to information system redesign