/ 24 ENE 2016, 12:10 AM
is increasingly recognizes the need to facilitate business applications on the web marketers, executives, managers and customers. But should we buy solutions to replace the software now completely rewrite, or recover and migrate to the cloud?
The answer depends a variety of factors ranging from the business objectives, the costs of these options, the feasibility of the migration and the urgency of bringing cloud part or the entire application.
Migrating a software to the cloud is to take the system in its current technology and, through a combination of automated processes and manuals, create a modern version of this, with the same functionality and naturally platforms that run on the web.
“The move to the cloud is not necessarily the right decision at all cases, “said Oscar Emo, CEO of Freeway. “The strategy is based on analysis of business objectives and technology department, contrasted with financial factors. It is possible that in certain cases the right strategy is not migrate. “
Among the factors to be tested are the total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) . Locally firms such as Freeway, Mobilize Costa Rica (formerly ArtinSoft) and GBM provide advice to companies to modernize their applications.
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The move to cloud is imposed on the industry.
International Data Corp. (IDC) research firm technology market, last week published a report in which projects that the total expenditure on information technology infrastructure for the deployment of cloud services increase by 25% in 2016, reaching $ 32,800 million.
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Take values
Many companies are interested leverage the systems they have and offer them on the web.
What we have today are usually client-server or desktop applications that can not be used in a mobile or a tablet or installed in the cloud due to its architecture. When you have a new version is to go from computer to computer.
Migration enables applications can be given a web architecture to host them on company servers or a supplier. It also facilitates moving the mobile part.
Another advantage is that you can retain the changes, business rules and functions introduced the software original and nobody remembers. The update is centralized.
Usually, companies gain in time (the migration is faster than rewrite a software or install a new one) and investment.
The migration costs between 25% and 35% of spending on a new solution or rewrite the software said Federido Zoufaly , director of Mobilize Costa Rica.
The transformation or migration of business applications to the cloud should be done to bring the systems do provide value to help increase revenue and reduce costs . According Emo, could hybrid models with legacy solutions (no longer generate value) and other service or cloud use.
For example, it can lead to cloud servers and databases (on the model of Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS, for its acronym in English).
You can also keep installed solutions or legacy processing ( back office ) and lead to the cloud as Software as a Service (SaaS) systems that are required for the operation of the collaborators ( front office ) and connecting with customers.
Another option is to use cloud platforms (PaaS, for its acronym in English) to develop, run and manage applications, accelerate their development or transform portions to take them to the cloud.
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When do
The main thing is to be clear that migration should not be used in applications that do not add value to the business or where companies are forced to continue to provide maintenance to the system
if migration also means continuing with outdated technology, the costs increase every day.; or when it has the same or higher cost and complexity that a new system.
In these cases there would more than replace the software new solutions with existing cloud .
There are also several criteria that must be considered.
“Move to the cloud system itself is possible. However, the advantages are not so large compared with those obtained by a company that implements a business solution under the scheme of SaaS, “said Francisco Montesinos, sales manager GBM Costa Rica.
Migration is feasible depending on various situations across the company.
You can apply the migration of a software if her an integral service that operates with modern technology is obtained; if solutions with comprehensive coverage and high stability; or if it extends the life of a system to replace it later.
The combination of legacy applications or migrated and new cloud services can be implemented if it advances to services fully the Web; to incorporate systems and services that complement the old software; and to channel investment into areas of business that add value to the business.
In any case we must consider all options (migrate completely replaced by a new system or develop a service), costs, time to provide solutions, in particular in which processes use cloud services.
Guides to the cloud computing
Feeway: Support for defining strategy, impact and steps to evolve to the cloud. SalesForce offers solutions (sales and customer care CRM) and AppCloud (to build applications in the cloud).
GBM: It offers SAP cloud solutions management (ERP), payroll, talent management and risk analysis and monitoring of quality processes and business. Also platforms AS400, Unix, Linux, Solaris and Microsoft to develop cloud services operating systems.
Mobilize: has solutions to migrate or transform systems, generate the web and provide them architecture in the cloud and on mobile.
Source surveyed companies.
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