Data Migration

The Challenge: Accessing your legacy data with modern tools

Systems conversion represents one of the most challenging tasks an IT department can face. Unfortunately, more often than not it is forced upon you. You may have acquired a company with incompatible systems, your existing application may no longer meet the organization’s needs, or there may have been a mandated decision from above. In any case, you need to convert systems and time is of the essence.

The problems are many:

• you have incomplete information on the source system
• you have inadequate tools to access the source data
• the developers are gone
• there are undocumented business rules that only exist in the applications themselves
• the data quality does not meet the standards or requirements of the new system

These problems are exacerbated when dealing with mainframe legacy data.

If only the source system used a relational database to store the data, you would then have ready access to the data, and could apply modern tools to the task.

Well, that is exactly the opportunity that Arbutus presents!

The Solution

Arbutus specializes in accessing non-relational mainframe and AS/400 legacy data. Arbutus Migrate is a simple, powerful, timely and cost effective solution, designed to the challenges of data migration.

Arbutus Migrate is made up of two components. The first, LegacyLink™, is middleware that allows your present Windows tools to directly access virtually any legacy data. The second component, Analyzer, is a separate Windows end user tool that allows an extensive range of analytics to be preformed on your source data.

In addition to accessing the data, Arbutus offers semantic and transformation layers that allow the implementation of virtually any data interface or business rule. This can dramatically enhance your ability to analyze and migrate your data.

Call Arbutus today, and let us show you how easy it is.

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