ICS Migration Services

Preserve, Leverage, Extend.

Seamless Migration Strategies for Complex Applications
All organizations reach a critical juncture in their application development processes where they decide to move their legacy applications away from out-dated technologies. As the expert in GUI and Qt application development, ICS will work with your team to review existing code and complete a comprehensive assessment to determine the impact of the migration project. ICS provides a cost/benefit analysis that highlights any trouble spots, estimates the actual time required to complete the migration, documents the potential long term savings, and completes the conversion.

Substantial experience in delivering Qt migration projects on-time and on-budget enables ICS to provide our clients with a more cost effective solution than completely rewriting an application from square one. In addition, we focus on skills transference in order to build the in-house knowledge base required to sustain and expand upon the consulting deliverables.

ICS specializes in the following migration services:

• Motif to Qt
• OpenLook to Qt
• MFC to Qt
• Windows to Linux

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Preparation is key.
The ICS Professional Services team begins a migration project by working with the client's team to evaluate the existing applications and future needs based on multiple factors, including the following:

• Complexity of the existing application - consider architectural complexity, line and file count
• Data complexity - sources of data, drivers for data sources
• Unusual device dependency - tablets, dials and button boxes
• Handwritten GUI code vs. Builder generated UI code
• Available time and resources - does the organization have sufficient time available for the porting effort? Keep in mind that the current application will continue to need support and fixes during the port. Is there a need for additional programmers? Are machines available to build and test on other platforms?
• User expectations - the organization needs to communicate to the users the future direction that is being undertaken. It is necessary to keep the end users in the loop and solicit feedback from them for needed enhancements.