OpenVMS Application Replacement

It is likely that when your in-house applications were developed some years ago, it was because no off-the-shelf applications were available to meet your business needs, which may not be the case now. It may now be an opportune time to take a look in the marketplace and see if there is a ready-made solution available. Replacing your homegrown applications with a ready-made one is by far the quickest way to embrace new technologies, and get the new features and functions that your business demands.

As when performing a rewrite, one of the biggest barriers when replacing a homegrown application with one off-the-shelf, is understanding what the current one actually does. If the application has not been meticulously documented, then the first task is to document the business functionality of the existing application(s). This then becomes the starting point for your gap analysis to determine the replacement. If the new application doesn't do what the current one does as a minimum, then it will not be acceptable to the user community, and represents a risk to your business.

If you have decided that an off-the-shelf solution is required to replace your homegrown OpenVMS application, we can help you evaluate alternatives, plan, budget and execute to move automated business processes and data to an existing OpenVMS system or a totally new platform.