Legacy System Re-engineering In Dotnet

Quick Summary: As a developer, there might be times when you must work on projects developed on existing codebases with outdated design patterns, infrastructure, and tooling. Luckily, you can breathe new life into these projects, all with the help of legacy system re-engineering. In this blog, you will learn the essentials of re-engineering legacy systems on Dotnet platforms and how it helps scale, improve, and maintain software.

Our modern business and IT environments have become very dynamic. Before we even know it, our enterprise systems become obsolete or face adaptability, interoperability, and usability issues.

Now, when these systems are custom-developed, you cannot discard them. They were custom-developed to serve a particular purpose. However, continuing with them today may not be operationally efficient.

So, what can you do? Well, this is where the concept of legacy system re-engineering comes into play. It's an excellent technique for software rebuilding; however, it still needs extensive planning and preparation. Engineers use your legacy system to develop an up-to-date solution with an advanced feature set.

And this blog will help you explore the essentials of re-engineering and modernizing legacy systems with the help of the latest Dotnet platform.

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What is Legacy System Re-Engineering?

Legacy system re-engineering is the process of examining, designing, and modifying your existing software systems to enhance their performance, quality, and maintainability, making them up-to-date.

Re-engineering legacy systems requires rendering the source code into different programming languages, optimizing software infrastructure, integrating third-party APIs, adding new features, and transferring or rearranging the database.

The main objective of re-engineering is to enhance the quality and maintainability of the legacy system while reducing the costs and risks of the system's development from the ground up.

Benefits of Legacy System Reengineering

The mere fact that your legacy application was custom developed means it had a special purpose to serve in your business. This itself is a reason enough to re-engineer it to the latest technology.

At Radixweb, legacy application re-engineering has the following set of benefits:

1. Latest Technology: New technology brings along a new set of benefits for an organization. So at Radixweb, we re-engineer your legacy application to the latest Dotnet framework version. This makes it easier to maintain and upgrade the app in the future.

2. Microsoft Certified Expertise: Radixweb is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Dotnet development and consulting. We specialize in developing applications in Dotnet. So when we work on your legacy modernization, we work with certified skills and proven technical expertise.

3. Cost Factor: We use your existing code and resources to re-engineer your legacy system. This makes re-engineering cost effective as compared to getting a whole new system developed or buying a new solution.

4. Business Logic: At Radixweb we first focus on business logic of an application instead of its code. We make sure that we carry this business logic forward when we re-engineer your application.

5. Add New Functionalities: As your business grows there may be certain requirements that your legacy application does not meet. In such cases we can add new set of features and functionalities to your legacy application while re-engineering it.

6. Third Party Integrations: We can integrate third party solutions or tools with your legacy system during re-engineering. This saves you the cost of buying a whole another solution. It also increased the value of your existing system.

7. Interoperability with Other Systems: For more than a decade now we have been developing , bespoke business solutions for global customers. We understand full enterprise IT architecture. So we re-engineer your legacy system in such a way that it interoperates with other systems in your IT environment.

8. Lower Maintenance Costs: Maintaining a legacy system can be a costly affair, especially when it is hard to optimize its performance due to technical limitations. But we re-engineer these systems in such a way that you don’t need to spend a fortune on maintenance.

Application Re-engineering Process

Step 1: Understand Existing System: our developer team understands your existing system, IT environment in which it works, and its dependencies. We study your existing system documentation and identify code level functionalities.

Step 2: Requirement Analysis: this, our team prepares a list of functional requirements of your system. We list down the new set of features that need to be added. We do a quick feasibility check to see that the new features do not clash with the old ones. We also check the technical feasibility of the new features.

Step 3: Fine-Tune Existing Code: , we do performance tuning of your existing code. Here we study the existing code of your application. We identify redundant code and remove it. We also remove any unnecessary coding to make it more responsive. We remove unused DLLs, variables, events, class, etc. All of this will help you save memory usage.

Step 4: Reuse Existing Code & Add New Code: this is done, we then analyze the remaining code to see what can be reused for what. We try to reuse the maximum of the existing code. Then develop new code for newer functionalities.

We make necessary changes to your application code and make it compatible with the new operating system and IT environment. We re-engineer the user interface to enhance the look and feel of your app for end-users. We simplify complex processes and make the app user friendly.

We also test the app thoroughly and analyze the output before deploying it back into your IT environment.

Dotnet as application Re-engineering Platform

We at Radixweb are Microsoft certified experts for the Dotnet development platform. So we can easily integrate object-oriented features and web services in your legacy system. In addition to this, the other advantages of re-engineering your application in Dotnet are:

• We can create multiple copies of your system, which you can run independently on different servers.
• We can make your system adaptive and responsive with a rich interactive experience.
• The system can be connected to distributed data sources like a Smart client.
• We can maintain computational services (thin client computing) at a reduced total cost of ownership.
• We can easily deploy and maintain a Dotnet application.
• We can integrate XML web services and convert your application into a web application.
• Your application can support SOAP due to the Dotnet platform.
• We can make your application platform-independent in Dotnet, which means installing it and operating it anywhere and everywhere.
• We can use Dotnet to make your application mobile compatible.

Re-Engineer Your Legacy System with Radixweb!Legacy system re-engineering is a systematic process that focuses on optimizing existing software. It involves assessing, restructuring, and sometimes redeveloping software to improve its functionality and keep it up-to-date. By employing re-engineering techniques, you can ensure that your legacy system remains efficient, maintainable, and relevant.So, if you’re ready to re-engineer and modernize your software, partner with Radixweb. We are Microsoft-certified experts for the Dotnet development platform, and we can integrate object-oriented features and modernize legacy software systems efficiently. Our experts are also proficient in re-engineering legacy systems for both web and desktop.Contact us to learn more about our re-engineering services.