Migration & Integration
Today's state-of-the-art application system is tomorrow's legacy system. Sooner or later, every application will need to be migrated to a new operator or technology platform. RISE will work with you to find an economically viable migration strategy, help you implement it, and manage the entire migration for you. RISE experts have a proven track record in integrating new systems and technologies with existing systems and we understand the business value of your existing data and functionality.
Replacing and migrating legacy systems or upgrading to newer versions of technology is a challenge. This work is often seen as a necessary evil and is therefore given low priority or not planned with the necessary care. RISE has extensive experience in legacy replacement and technology migration and can help you replace your legacy systems with new IT systems, migrate existing databases and keep your systems up to date with new technologies.
Whether replacing a monolith with a modern and modular microservices architecture, including data transformation and migration, or upgrading your server operating systems, RISE can help you modernise your IT architecture. Aspects such as future and IT security as well as data protection must be taken into account in the context of replacement, migration or integration and form the basis for the successful introduction of new IT systems in your company.
Technology replacement
Everyone knows it, no one likes it! Why replace a well-maintained and stable IT system with a new and sometimes less familiar technology, possibly at great expense? Many companies ask themselves this question over time, on average every five years. There are several reasons for this
System replacements: Reasons and considerations
- Vendor support for a product or product version is no longer available or is being discontinued.
- The IT strategy or a possible reorganisation of your company requires a replacement, migration or integration.
- Existing software or IT systems can no longer be maintained and operated, or in some cases can only be maintained and operated at very high cost.
- New but necessary functionality can no longer be integrated into existing systems
Whatever the reason for replacing your technology, RISE's experts can help you modernise and replace your legacy systems, from planning through to go-live and ongoing operation of the new solution, drawing on their experience from numerous migration and replacement projects in a wide range of industries and IT sectors.
Data migration
Over time, every organisation accumulates a considerable amount of data of enormous importance. The unavailability of this data can lead to problems in day-to-day operations or even worse. Availability, confidentiality and integrity must be guaranteed at all times. How to migrate data under these conditions and ideally without affecting the users? This is where RISE can provide the best possible support, thanks to its experience from numerous migration and replacement projects with a variety of migration scenarios and concepts, and its broad knowledge of all IT areas and technologies.
System integration: on-premises and cloud
The integration of technologies and products into your existing IT landscape - on-premises or in the cloud - as well as the integration of your applications into RISE's managed services (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) is one of RISE's core competencies within the scope of operations. The integration and selection of services from public clouds (cloud-native, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud) is also carried out by RISE and optimally tailored to your requirements. RISE helps you to successfully transition applications and use cases to outsourced IT systems (managed services, cloud services) in the shortest possible time and supports you in adapting your processes as part of system integration.
Area of expertise host replacement
Many IT systems in banks, insurance companies, government departments or airports use long-established, deeply integrated legacy host systems as their core systems. Common to all legacy systems is that the business logic is essential to the core business, but increasingly unaffordable to maintain.
Worldwide there are still >1 million COBOL transactions per second.
RISE has successfully replaced host systems and migrated them to modern, more cost effective architectures. RISE not only helps clients develop a tailored replacement strategy, but also provides extensive expertise in a wide range of modernisation techniques - from ReHosting, ReFacing and RePlatforming to Encapsulation, ReFactoring, ReArchitecting, ReBuilding and RePlacing.
RISE offers a comprehensive portfolio of host replacement services and products:
- Strategy development, technical leadership, overall project and program management
- Product selection and selecting and sizing the appropriate target platform
- Configuration and implementation of middleware, compiler, development environment, job scheduler, database, monitoring
- Automated migration of PL/I and COBOL programs to the target platform
- Automated migration of databases including code page conversion
- (e.g. EBCDIC to ASCII)
- Implementation of replacement mechanisms for functionality that is no longer available
- Performance testing and tuning of the target platform
- Test management and automation
Reducing operating costs, staff availability, lack of innovation due to legacy components. RISE provides support with comprehensive modernisation skills, established and proven tools and expertise.
Intensive research precedes new systems
In terms of methodology, RISE is committed to the engineering and engineering science approach, which generally gives greater weight to concrete practical IT experience than to analogue scientific findings. "There is nothing good unless you do it" is a timeless RISE IT rule.