The
Issue
You have upgraded your
system but have an important application
running on legacy hardware. The data held
on the hardware is useful if not vital to
your organisation but the historic system
is now unsupported and is therefore vulnerable.
You have probably invested a considerable
amount of time and money upgrading and integrating
your servers and systems that now run your
critical business applications. When the
historic system expires or if a disruption
occurs how quickly will you be able to get
it working again? Have you considered this
risk in your Business Continuity Planning?
The Solution
Legacy Support offers you
a series of bespoke solutions which will enable
you to dispose of your old system. Using our
solution will give you access to historic
data on your PC through a desktop application.
This application can be shared amongst users.
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The Methods
There are a number of options
available:
- All or parts of
existing reports can be extracted and
arranged and viewed in 'WordPad' or 'HTML'
- If your file has
less than 64,000 records the data can
be converted into 'EXCEL' files
- If you require to
access data for manipulation or for larger
files 'ACCESS' can be used
- If desired a full
SQL compliant database can be produced
(e.g Informix, Sql Server, MySql, Sybase
etc).
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The Benefits
of Converting Data
The retrieval of historic
data and conversion to an application accessed
on your desk-top will benefit your organisation
in a number of ways:
- The risk that your
data is lost is mitigated. An important
consideration for business continuity
planning
- Current technology
is used to research legacy data
- Data analysis uses
current tools
- Data can be shared
by users. There are no restrictions on
the number of copies
- Cost reduction as
the legacy system is removed
- No requirement to
support the legacy system.
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The Project
Our process, which is
compliant with Law Society Regulations on
the storing of historical accounting records
utilises our internally developed tools
and techniques.
During the conversion process data remains
on your historic system. Data is copied
and downloaded onto our Legacy Support systems
where a conversion process is run against
it. While in our possession back-ups are
taken and controls and procedures put in
place to protect against any unauthorised
access to your data.
Project completion time will vary depending
on the size and complexity of your database.
Working with you Legacy Support will assess
your requirments and produce and agree with
you a bespoke job specification and project
plan. A fixed price will be agreed and provided
to you in writing. The fee will cover all
work involved with carrying out a successful
transfer and re-presentation of your data.
Please contact
us by e-mail
or by telephoning 0131 478 9292 to discuss
your project requirements
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