Duration

1 day

Overview

Legacy applications, many of the developed as early as the late 1960s, play a very significant role in our corporations' lives as the workhorses behind accounting, payroll, order entry or other vital applications ensuring continuity of the business. Still, legacy application are becoming excessively costly to maintain, and are a major challenge when attempting to modify them to keep up with business evolution.

This course helps students recognize the types of legacy applications, the basic legacy extension strategies, and options available to projects aimed at bringing legacy applications into the 21st century. The course also helps find answers to questions regarding infrastructure, process and other aspects of the extension project.

Audience

This course is intended for application architects, business analysts, and business and IT managers who need to understand legacy extension and the issues around it. 

Prerequisites

The students should have basic understanding of IS processes and technologies.


Outline

Overview of Legacy Applications
What is a Legacy Application?
Classes of Mainframe Applications
Legacy Environment
The E-Commerce Landscape
Goals of Legacy Extension