Legacy Modernization
When your agency is challenged with modernizing a system, it can be hard to know where to start. After all, your legacy system is a key part of your agency, and it’s likely served your organization well for many years.
Is your agency facing these tough situations?
- Prioritizing effectively (Tech changes quickly!)
- Budget crunches
- Difficulty leveraging technology and increasing offerings to end users
- New, challenging security and compliance requirements
- High maintenance costs
- Lack of personnel who understand the technology
So what do you need to do to modernize? Your options might include:
- Building new applications
- Extending an existing application with new functionality
- Adding ways to access functionality
- Integrating existing or new applications
- Porting to new platforms
- A combination of the preceding
But how do you know which options are best for your agency’s situation?
Your Goals and What We Can Do
Auctor can help your agency determine priorities, meet goals, future proof, and/or plan a technical strategy to:
- Advance your system and agency by delivering value quickly (and incrementally, if needed).
- Provide end users critical information and functionality for successfully meeting business objectives.
- Identify and resolve workflow bottlenecks that limit efficiency.
- Implement data analysis solutions that can yield insights for decision making.
- Drive system architecture and design with the goal of future proofing.
- Future Proofing
“Future proofing” is a way to ensure that your agency can move forward with new development. That involves architecting the enterprise software/technology design and structure so your agency can continue with new development as technology advances.
What does your agency need to do to “future proof?” You’ll want to evaluate the following:
- Portability. Can your clients and employees access the key data they need; on all the devices they want to use? Is that access secure? This is portability.
- Maintainability Has it become challenging for your team to maintain the system? Can the system support changes and adapt to environments? Is it easy to repair?
- Scalability Can your system architecture expand to support higher workloads without any fundamental changes to it to meet future growth?
- Data Accessibility. Can your system architecture support your organization’s business intelligence efforts and the specific platforms and tools that will be deployed to do so? Is your system architecture supporting your goals?
An effective architecture can make a real difference in how quickly and easily new features can be developed and deployed.
The design and architecture of system elements can include:
- user interfaces
- data interfaces
- data repositories
- business logic
To meet those requirements, we can help you establish a system architecture that employs design patterns that can:
- Reduce dependencies and allow for flexibility in enhancements and modernization strategies. That’s accomplished by decoupling architectural layers. Example, decoupling legacy data platforms and structure to enable incremental advances in modernization.
- Provide connectivity and service options via service APIs (application programming interfaces), which leverage modern technologies (REST, microservices, OAuth2, etc). These APIs can be used across systems, processes, and layers in a secure, scalable way. That gives you flexible, reusable, and sustainable “building blocks.”
We’ve been able to help clients provide concurrent access to their database via both legacy and new applications.
- Better Access to Key Data & Functions
Ensure your users can access approved applications and services.
People want to be able to access key business data and application functionality on multiple devices (mobile, laptops, tablets). That can save money and enhance the level of service that you provide.
We’ve helped implement applications for Android and iOS devices using a single code base. With our child support app, for example, users can use their mobile phones or other devices to view case information.
And certainly, the last few years have meant that increasingly, people work from home. So organizations want employees to have secure remote access to systems.
- Efficient Maintenance and Targeted System Enhancements
Keep moving your system and agency forward.
Whether it’s updating a system to address recent state and federal regulation changes, revised business processes, or new user needs, we’ve created and managed many types of enhancements.
For one client, we’ve installed between 150 – 180 system enhancements each year for the past few years, typically delivering 25 improvements to the application in each install.
Results? Progress towards larger agency goals–significant across-the-board improvements in performance measures, with gains that have been sustained over multiple years.
We can also bring you those hard-to-find experts in legacy system languages (for example, PICK BASIC pre-.NET and COBOL) to your project.
- Right Data at the Right Time--Business Analytics
Get key, up-to-date, high-level data–in formats you need.
Do the right people get the right data when they need it?
Your agency’s leaders need to be able to view up-to-date performance data at key points.
No matter what data you need from your existing system, we can help you with creating high-level charts, graphs, and ongoing updates. For a child support client, for example, we created options to help managers track progress on key federal reporting metrics.
We can also help you create your own reports. We ensure that the necessary data is not constrained by legacy definition, and expose that data to tools that allow individuals to create their own reports, without special coding.
- More Effective Business Processes
Help identify and resolve workflow bottlenecks that limit efficiency in your agency.
Bottlenecks in a workflow can limit your organization’s efficiency dramatically.
We can help analyze workflows, evaluating them for efficiency and linking them to system functions.