Application migration services par excellence - Choose our expertise for Software Application Migration
Software application migration is probably the most important facet of moving legacy systems on to more modern platforms like Windows, SQL Server & .NET. The obvious reasons to migrate to open platforms, is to achieve lower maintenance costs and enhanced business agility. This means working with proven application migration services providers, to reduce the risk involved in migrating such mission-critical applications.

Our migration services include:

- Re-platforming or re-engineering legacy applications on IBM Mainframe, AS400, TANDEM,HP3000 or UNIX to Windows, .Net & SQL Server

- Competitive migrations for ISVs - from other databases / development platforms to .Net, Windows & SQL Server.

- Migrate ISVs on previous generation MS technologies to new platforms

- Replace existing legacy business applications with Microsoft Business Solutions - Microsoft Axapta & Microsoft CRM - wherever applicable

Our application migration services are based on the following core strengths:

- eNAbLE© : Optimized, tool-based methodology for application migration, consisting of five stages - Assess, Validate, Propose, Prepare and Migrate

- Tool-based legacy migration approach, including homegrown & third-party tools

- Expertise in .NET & reusable components, based on our Sonnets initiative

- A flexible global delivery model for migration

- Focus on risk minimization - Proof-of-concept (PoC)s to identify & mitigate risks upfront, followed by tool-assisted migration services

Our database migration services focus on ISVs currently on competitive databases - such as Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix & Btrieve - who wish to make their applications available on SQL Server platform.

Sonata's ISV focus & proven database migration methodology, our expertise on emerging Microsoft technologies like SQL Server 2005, knowledge of migration tools like SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA), makes us the provider-of-choice for ISV database migration & MS platform adoption.