Legacy Migration
For customers who need to migrate their applications across platforms “The Wipro Migration Process” is a structured and proven approach that facilitates migration in a reliable and predictable manner. Unlike more expensive and ad-hoc solutions from our competitors, our process reduces overall risk, uncertainty and cost of such large migration exercises.

Why Customers Migrate?

From Wipro’s past experience in migration/reengineering, following are important drivers for migration.

• Higher cost in maintenance of Legacy applications
• Technology Limitations in legacy applications and platforms
• Adoption of open source wave
• Adoption of emerging architectural concepts
• Conversion of two tier to n tier application
• Mergers and acquisitions triggering application consolidation
• Adoption of SOA philosophy
• Lack of Vendor support for legacy applications and older platforms
• Lack of skilled resources for legacy application maintenance and development

Wipro Advantages

Wipro’s approach on migration/reengineering is unique and cost effective process and this is achieved by hybrid approach that was created in Wipro. Hybrid migration approach is an ideal combination of tools and manual usage in the process. Listed below are advantages of Wipro’s migration / reengineering process.

• Proven and well defined methodology in migration/reengineering
• Centre of excellence group with a dedicated lab in Wipro for migration/reengineering analysis
• Strong resource base with migration tools and process expertise
• Factory model approach in migration/reengineering
• Usage of prior migration experience and learning in migration/reengineering
• Decreased effort coming from a tool based approach reduces the cost of migration
• A detailed roll out strategy reduces application down time
• Strong vendor partnership ensures cross leveraging of best practices
• Increased predictability due to a repeatable process