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Legacy information systems: issues and directions

1999; IEEE Computer Society; Volume: 16; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/52.795108

1937-4194

Jesús Bisbal, Deirdre Lawless, Bing Wu, Jane Grimson,

Software Engineering Research

A legacy information system represents a massive, long-term business investment. Unfortunately, such systems are often brittle, slow and non-extensible. Capturing legacy system data in a way that can support organizations into the future is an important but relatively new research area. The authors offer an overview of existing research and present two promising methodologies for legacy information system migration.