Your organization recognizes the significant opportunity in the legacy system replacement market - with over 200 billion lines of COBOL alone powering the global economy, the IT infrastructure foundation is aging rapidly and has become a number one priority for CIOs.

This question has driven many CIOs to adapt commercial off-the-shelf packages to their mission-critical business processes, or write new applications from the ground up. Both of these approaches have significant risks that can turn the project into a financial sinkhole and end up in failure. Indeed, the statistics are not encouraging: The Standish Group’s 2003 Annual Research Report indicates that over $75 billion in IT projects globally were cancelled outright, a number that has increased each year since the mid-1990s, and approximately 85% of the delivered projects were late and/or over budget.

Understanding the manual workarounds that have evolved over years of use, known as “tribal knowledge”, can be even more of a challenge. If this knowledge is not captured accurately, everything from change management to customer service levels can be negatively impacted. The starting over approach also negates the years of intellectual property investment in the legacy application, and ignores the fact that the existing system is the closest model and representation of your clients’ business processes.

The Transformational Legacy Modernization™ (TLM) platform is MAKE’s structured methodology and toolset that focuses on the recovery, analysis and modernization of the intellectual property, namely the business logic, semantics and data models, inherent in existing legacy systems. TLM uses a holistic approach, taking into account the business processes (including tribal knowledge), the application code, and the legacy data stores. Each of these areas require a unique approach for present case analysis, streamlining and modernization. Arming your organization with the TLM methodology and toolset will win you more business than any other approach on the market today.

Other benefits include:

• Access to the TLM Center of Excellence (COE)
• Tools-supported methodology rather than just tools
• Support of MAKE modernization experts
• Reduced engagement risk
• Rearchitecture approach is the best path to SOA
• Ongoing maintenance and enhancement opportunities with client after modernization complete

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