Organizations are looking for ways to reduce costs and improve the accessibility of legacy applications. Sometimes, meeting this objective involves moving from a traditional mainframe to client/server or web architecture. Increasingly, it means moving from early client/server to web. Either way, Abacus Technology is prepared to assist throughout the process.

Abacus Technology can help you determine the right target architecture to meet your needs, business and technical. We investigate all factors that affect the right choice including:

• Geography of the user population
• Application characteristics
• Existing infrastructure
• Maintenance issues
• Available funding
• Degree of functional enhancement sought
• Time available
• Alignment with overall strategic plans.

Once the target architecture is decided, Abacus Technology can help you get there. We can re-engineer the legacy application or recreate it to meet today's business needs. Typically, this re-engineering is an opportunity to get rid of the problems your users have fought with and dealt with for years - we'll work with your team to design a new version of the system that does what users really want. Abacus Technology can redesign your database and migrate your data. We can rebuild or create anew the needed interfaces to other systems. Just as in any system development we do, we also support implementation, training, and maintenance.

When Abacus Technology is done, you'll even have useful, current system documentation - something that rarely exists with legacy applications!