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

fYear

1997

fDate

2-5 Dec 1997

Firstpage

529

Lastpage

530

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.1997.640219

Filename

640219