Customers clamor for Independent Software Vendors (ISV) to support various platforms as their platforms change. Since the ISV concentrates on improving its own core suite of products, it becomes a significant challenge to invest in cross-platform porting. Investing time, resources
and money in porting exercises while competition is advancing in the marketplace complicates
this challenge.

By working as a migration and porting specialist who can take care of cross platform compatibility challenges, LeverPoint is helping companies overcome these challenges successfully, while companies stay focused on product innovation. Several technology companies have achieved cross-platform compatibility through LeverPoint's skills in this domain.

Migration Methodology

LeverPoint's Migration Assessment expertise provides an accurate and timely inventory of all impacted applications, defines migration issues by count and severity, and outlines a delivery plan and a cost model to complete the migration. There are four key steps of the migration strategy:

•  Inception: Including an impact assessment and requirements analysis
•  Elaboration: Version control and definition customization
•  Construction and Testing: Code migration and testing
•  Deployment: Phased deployment (transition)

Following figure depicts our migration methodology. The methodology may be customized based on the project and customer requirements .

LeverPoint's Migration methodology has helped many customers to migrate applications successfully. The methodology has been tailored to suit the needs of different migration projects. It may further be customized for different project requirements depending on:

•  Application architecture
•  Application nature and size
•  Business impact and priority
•  Other constraints like cost, schedule

LeverPoint Offerings

LeverPoint's range of migration software services include:

•  Operating System migration (e.g. Solaris, Linux, Windows)
•  Pre-.NET-to-.NET migration
•  Application server migration
•  J2EE to .NET Migration and vice versa
•  Proprietary architecture to open, standards-based architecture (e.g. J2EE,    .NET,etc.)
•  Database migration (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, etc.)
•  Programming Language migration