We at Sapiens can help you develop a detailed roadmap for your modernization that includes business scope, objectives and implementation plan. By showing you expected costs, benefits and ROI, we enable you to make informed decisions on legacy-modernization strategy and planning.
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Today’s businesses are continually being challenged in order to stay ahead of the competition. Innovations must be better, faster and more cost-effective. The job of the CIO has become a balancing act, meeting the needs and expectations of the business, while staying within the operating budget and thus avoiding the risk of failure.
If these challenges aren’t difficult enough, business conditions and technologies are changing quickly. Typical scenarios include:
- The business needs new features and functionality as soon as possible in order to remain competitive.
- Demands for additional capacity are growing annually.
- Reducing operations and maintenance costs is imperative.
- Many applications are obsolete. Written 20 or more years ago, they no longer meet business needs.
- Applications no longer meet federal or state compliance standards.
The legacy systems that have played a significant role in your previous successes may now be dragging you down. They may no longer be able to keep up. Even if they can, they will eventually become unaffordable, unmaintainable, unextendable and noncompliant. Modernization of these legacy systems is prescribed. Whether modernization is done now or later, critical decisions must be made; they include:
- Should there be a complete replacement of legacy mainframes and applications?
- Would it be more cost-effective to retain existing legacy code?
- Should another option be pursued?
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Our approach to legacy modernization provides a robust and flexible environment. Using our smart-adaptors, we enable putting a service layer around the legacy application. Your legacy application is thus extended, such that:
- A standard environment, such as Linux or Windows, can be used.
- eMerge Modeler can be used to add classes and attributes.
- eMerge positive-thinking rule engine can be used to add rules.
- RIMA (Rich Internet and Mobile Application) capabilities can be added.
We believe that a phased, incremental re-engineering or extending provides in many cases the best value, allowing ROI, lowering risk, and driving the process to success.
    
Among the numerous advantages to eMerge are:
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Using eMerge smart adaptor technology, legacy applications are treated as assets and services are made out of them¾even if they where not written as such.
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Legacy applications are easily extended.
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A state-of-the-art modeling and business-rules environment is available.
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A state-of-the-art RIMA (Rich Internet and Mobile Application) is available.
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Modules can be re-engineered incrementally¾based on ROI¾with little risk.
Re-engineering legacy applications to run in a distributed, open environment delivers a broad range of benefits, including:
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Enhanced scalability, flexibility, and efficiency
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Better alignment between business, IT, and modern and future technologies
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More agility enabling a quicker response to changing business needs
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Lower operating costs |
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