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Modernization

Our focus is on practical modernization strategies that enhance application maintainability, usability, and ready our clients for the future.  We accomplish this through pragmatic approaches that best suit our clients’ needs and budgets.  

Today, we all face challenges in pursuit of business goals and our IT systems are often enablers or impediments to achieving these goals.  We’re under constant pressure to meet the ever-evolving landscape of requirements from customers, trading partners and within their organization.  In addition, we’re up against a quickening rate of technological change and its impact on older, more rigid legacy systems.  These technological changes come in the form of new best-in-class applications that may be premise or cloud-based, mobile apps, and the need to connect everything.

​And of course, competition is advancing - we see it everywhere - organizations rapidly adopting new solutions to keep up with shifting technologies.

How are we to deliver the systems and capabilities users are demanding today?  How can we stay ahead of our competition while maintaining the flexibility in our systems that allows for future change?  And how do we do it all within budgets and time constraints of the modern business cycle?  

Addressing Legacy Systems

Your legacy systems are an asset!  Yes, they may be a liability as well, but there is substantial value contained within the data and business logic of those systems.  Yes, they need to be modernized for maintainability over the long run, but these systems, which have run the business for many years, and are highly reliable and stable, can be leveraged to deliver on today’s challenges.  ​

When planning to modernize, it may not be sensible, and you may not have the bandwidth to modernize all legacy systems at once.  As well there is high risk with big-bang modernization projects.  We believe it is far more pragmatic to tackle modernization in manageable chunks over time.

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With roots extending to the early AS/400 and beyond, our team is well positioned to understand the challenges and issues faced with modernizing and enhancing legacy green screen interfaces, monolithic applications and older rigid database structures.   

 

Depending on client needs, our methods can vary from a controlled, incremental approach carried out for a sustained period to minimize risk, to larger target driven approaches.  During the modernization process we’ll offer unbiased evaluation of modernization platforms to determine if the use of a tool would be the best approach for your unique needs. Whether or not tooling is employed for the project, skilled Tree Line consultants can help manage and execute modernization of green-screen environments, databases and enable highly productive GUI-browser-based applications.

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Challenges:

  • Legacy systems require updating

  • Skills/resources limited or nonexistent

  • Need to deliver value now 

  • Desire to take advantage of best-in-class cloud or premise applications

  • Requirement to integrate everything to ensure data consistency and process flow

 

The Opportunity:

  • Build a cohesive, yet flexible IT strategy that leverages the best of current systems with best of modern applications

  • Integrate all through a common, adaptable framework that is manageable and cost effective

  • Deliver new applications with speed, connect with partners through a well defined interface, manage your data across all channels    

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