A large number of organizations depend on the business‐critical information systems for
their daily activities that have been developed over the last two decades or more. These …

Legacy Systems have become a challenge for many enterprises, which have been migrating
its legacy systems towards new computational environments because of interoperability …

This paper presents the research results of an ongoing technology transfer project carried
out in cooperation between the University of Salerno and a small software company. The …

Legacy information systems typically form the backbone of the information flow within an
organisation and are the main vehicle for consolidating information about the business. As a …

Today, software professionals recognize that change in software systems is inevitable.
There are many systems currently in operation, however, which were developed before the …

Modernization of legacy enterprise systems introduces many challenges due to the size,
complexity, and frailty of the legacy systems. Size and complexity issues often dictate that …

Many organizations manage their activities by using legacy systems. These are very
important for them as they represent an important support for the achievement of the …

This chapter addresses the problem of platform migration of large business applications, that
is, complex software systems built around a database and comprising thousands of …

A legacy information system represents a massive, long-term business investment.
Unfortunately, such systems are often brittle, slow and non-extensible. Capturing legacy …

IT legacy systems are typically large, the cost of maintaining them is very high and they tend
to constrain the business from responding fast enough to changes in business strategy, as …