SYNFOSYS has helped clients globally to cost effectively migrate to new technologies while extending the life cycle of their functionality rich existing/legacy systems. Projects include re-engineering software to migrate applications legacy systems to client/server architectures, to extend existing applications to the Internet, to migrate from existing applications to UNIX or Windows NT, or to update from a non-relational to a relational database technology.

The scope of the migration can vary porting of legacy application software (3GL code, user-interface and middleware), database conversion, web-enabling, or turnkey migration to a new operating system or platform.

SYNFOSYS provides services that encompass application migration, database migration and operating system migration.

Migrating applications, databases, and platforms is a need that most organizations have at some point of time in their IT cycle. This is due to the following reasons:

Consolidation: Reduce differences and discrepancies in database platforms to enable a more robust data sharing and retrieval process.

Web-Enabling: With the open-ended and massive leverage that the internet has to offer, many organizations find themselves in a situation where web-enabling an "offline" solution makes more business sense.

Legacy: To upgrade to better platforms from redundant ones offering little strategic value. The crux of upgrading from legacy systems is to maintain established organizational practices and policies and improve upon them.

Security: Protection of data, especially when accessed by an extensive amount of individual and collective users as well as outsiders is almost mission critical. The primary focus is to enable high level encryption methodologies.

Performance: Applications that power today's businesses need to be robust, scalable, and reliable and offer increased performance features.

SYNFOSYS's approach to Migration services:

• Migrating needs Consultancy. We assess a given situation and suggest the most effective mechanism.
• Intranet and IT assessment services
• Evaluating existing technology and suggesting Third-Party Tools integration wherever applicable
• Offering the entire gamut of services - From Inception to Implementation to Support

SYNFOSYS offers Migration services in the following categories:

• Operating System migration (e.g. Solaris, Linux, Windows)
• Pre-.NET-to-.NET migration (e.g. VB, ASP, Cold Fusion, Power Builder)
• Application server migration
• J2EE to .NET Migration and vice versa
• Proprietary architecture to open, standards-based architecture (e.g. J2EE, .NET, etc)
• Database migration/Conversion (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, etc.)
• Programming Language migration (e.g. VB to .Net, PB to .Net, PB to J2EE)