DDC-I’s Migration Assessment studies offer a cost-effective, qualified, and third party view of the efforts and expenses involved in a language, target, or host migration.
Features
Outlines current environment
Identifies application-specific migration issues
Assesses the risks of the migration
Recommends solutions based on risk mitigation and costs
Provides work breakdowns
Provides refined cost & labor estimates
Includes applicable quotes if DDC-I were to perform the migration
Benefits
Interim step before committing to a migration project
Scopes the migration effort
Cost
Labor (in-house or out-source)
Schedule
Removes technical ‘unknowns’
Presents technical management strategies
Migrating software can be a sensitive or costly venture. This is especially the case for legacy applications as they are more difficult to port due to a host of potential pitfalls (e.g., programming language nuisances, compiler [vendor] implementations, runtime and hardware dependencies, use of extensions beyond the defined programming language, application code structures, etc.). Further, migrating applications may impact prior (e.g., DO-178) certification efforts. DDC-I’s Migration Assessment Studies resolves these unknowns, by providing a comprehensive technical study that identifies the migration’s technical challenges, proposes technical solutions and recommendations of how to approach the migration effort, and a manpower and, if applicable, DDC-I’s service cost estimates. DDC-I Migration Assessment Studies are independent of other DDC-I services, and may be used to simply help scope and manage internal resources for migration efforts.
Migration Assessment Study Processes start with an initial set of technical conference call(s) followed by an on-site study of the application and the development environment. This on-site study is performed by a DDC-I software expert, who is selected based upon the type of migration considered. As applicable, an on-site study often includes recompiling part of the application to the new language host, or target environment, and may include an in-depth analysis of the user’s development environment and applicable third party software tools and code bases. From this vantage point, the DDC-I expert then returns to DDC-I and develops the Migration Assessment Study which undergoes a series of internal DDC-I peer reviews before it is presented to the customer.
