With new technologies arriving at an ever-increasing rate, legacy systems migration has become a growing research area. However there are few if any studies that analyze a comprehensive actual migration in progress. Legacy system migrations commonly fail and typically fail in the planning phase unbeknownst to their project managers. Possessing information on other successes and problems would aid in mitigating these failures.The Value and Significance of the ProblemThe purpose of this research is to initially document an actual legacy systems migration for a small liberal arts educational institution and analyze the successes and failures to identify their underlying cause in order to enforce or discourage certain practices. There are very few software/hardware migration studies, if any that are based on actual data. For this reason this study provides the academic community with an important data point for analysis.The MethodThe migration under consideration is an Administrative Systems Upgrade at DePauw University. The current system that has had minor upgrades is approximately twenty years old. The planned migration has a three-year scope. The planning phase started on March 2002 and finished on March 2003. Important documents that will be analyzed to form a basis for analysis will be a white paper entitled Employment of Technology to Improve Administrative Operations: Assessment and Recommendations, produced by an external consultant, the resulting actual migration plan, discussions with the project manager and related technical staff who are involved with the migration. RisksSince the research will conclude before the completion of the DePauw Administrative Systems Upgrade, this study will be limited to the tasks completed within the timeframe. As with studying any real system success of the study may be affected by:Completion of assigned milestones within the project itself;Input from end users in the form of interviews or surveys;Input from IT staff involved in the upgrade in the form of interviews or surveys.The portion of the DePauw Administrative Systems Upgrade that falls outside the scope of this research may be the topic of future research. / Department of Computer Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/187552 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Wampler, Douglas R. |
| Contributors | Zage, Delores M. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | v, 218 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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