Supporting Legacy Applications
IT press coverage may focus on SAP, .Net and Oracle but the truth remains that many of the UK’s most established and successful companies continue to depend on a multitude of legacy applications for many of their core business processes.
Maintaining and supporting these poses one of the largest ongoing headaches for IT Managers and Directors. Not simply because legacy applications are amongst the most modified and deeply embedded systems that an organisation will have. But, as they are also amongst the most long lasting, detailed knowledge about them will often have left the company as individual staff careers have progressed. As a result the user is left vulnerable to unplanned downtime and the inability to continue to develop or integrate the applications, as user needs change.
In recent years Astech Consultants has developed a reputation for the provision of high quality legacy application development and support services. We offer a four-fold legacy promise:
- To retain the necessary legacy skillsets required, thereby eliminating recruitment and retention issues on behalf of our customers.
- To maintain a detailed working knowledge of all the most popular programming languages and commercial applications in use today to ensure that legacy applications can be effectively integrated.
- To remain focused on the mission criticality of legacy applications and thereby ensure that our projects are fine tuned to the commercial imperatives of the organisation.
- To sustain our commitment to ITIL to ensure that our projects are executed to the highest standards of good practice.
