Development of a model for the migration of legacy architectures

Hannes Böhm
2011 unpublished
This paper is proposing a holistic process model for the migration of legacy infrastructures. To achieve this objective it is therefore necessary to investigate and define what legacy architectures and their related problems are. After that the established migration approaches to address the legacy challenge and an overview of current and ongoing architectures and trends form a broad enough headstone to then go on discussing which methodologies and means are available to facilitate a smooth
more » ... ation. These are spanning from the human factor via risk control to economic matters related to system transformation projects. Finally the migration reference process ReMiP and the enterprise architecture framework TOGAF are introduced and combined to consolidate the presented approaches. The closing chapters compare the expected benefits with the requirements of a practitioner, propose a reference migration model and finally summarise the proposed approach.
doi:10.25365/thesis.13903 fatcat:arw2k7r4zjgajmjjeksauvjqn4