KEY FACTORS IN LEGACY SYSTEMS MIGRATION - A Real Life Case

Teta Stamati, Konstantina Stamati, Drakoulis Martakos

2006

Abstract

Although legacy systems migration as a subject area is often overlooked in favour of areas such as new technology developments and strategic planning of information technology, most migration projects are considered ill-fated initiatives and a rate of over 80% of these projects run over budget, frequently with system functionality falling short of contract. Many practitioners consider that the proposed theoretical migration approaches are myopic and do not take into account a number of key factors that make a migration project a really complex initiative. Our position is that throughout the life cycle of a migration process, there are some critical factors that initially play the role of the “drivers” and afterwards they became the factors that hinder (“hinders”) the migration process. We consider these key factors as Critical Success Factors (CSF) that must be carefully considered. Furthermore, these key factors could be either overt or covert factors. In each case, the migration engineers should consider and analyse them very carefully prior to the initiation of the migration process and a well-defined migration methodological plan should be developed. The work presented is based on a real life initiative putting emphasis on the key success factors revealing at the same time the complexity of a migration process. Emphasis is put on the required management view and planning effort, rather than on the mere technological issues.

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Stamati T., Stamati K. and Martakos D. (2006). KEY FACTORS IN LEGACY SYSTEMS MIGRATION - A Real Life Case . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-41-2, pages 340-344. DOI: 10.5220/0002469403400344


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Teta Stamati and Konstantina Stamati and Drakoulis Martakos},
title={KEY FACTORS IN LEGACY SYSTEMS MIGRATION - A Real Life Case},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={340-344},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002469403400344},
isbn={978-972-8865-41-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - KEY FACTORS IN LEGACY SYSTEMS MIGRATION - A Real Life Case
SN - 978-972-8865-41-2
AU - Stamati T.
AU - Stamati K.
AU - Martakos D.
PY - 2006
SP - 340
EP - 344
DO - 10.5220/0002469403400344