Title :
An overview of legacy information system migration
Author :
Bisbal, Jesus ; Lawless, Deirdre ; Wu, Bing ; Grimson, Jane ; Wade, Vincent ; Richardson, Ray ; Sullivan, D.O.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Trinity Coll., Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
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. These systems also pose considerable problems: brittleness, inflexibility, isolation, nonextensibility, lack of openness etc., the so called legacy system problem which opens up a new research topic, legacy system migration. This paper provides a brief review of the main issues involved in legacy information systems migration
Keywords :
business data processing; information systems; relational databases; software portability; brittleness; business; inflexibility; information flow; isolation; legacy information system migration; nonextensibility; open system; organisation; relational database; Application software; Computer science; Educational institutions; Hardware; Information systems; Management information systems; Relational databases; Software maintenance; Spine; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Conference, 1997. Asia Pacific ... and International Computer Science Conference 1997. APSEC '97 and ICSC '97. Proceedings
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8271-X
DOI :
10.1109/APSEC.1997.640219
