Web Navigation, MRP, ERP, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning

Flexible and adaptable information systems are critical assets in today's increasingly competitive business environment. Because of this, many companies are migrating from legacy systems to new technologies in order to reduce cycle times, lower costs, and increase access to meaningful data.

For example, combining multi-tiered architectures with the reengineering of business processes can dramatically improve customer service and empower user departments. In addition, combining network and/or hierarchical data structures with a relational model provides users with the flexibility to quickly query corporate information and produce ad hoc reports. However, migrating to the best available technology infrastructure has consistently represented a difficult challenge for Information Systems (IS) managers. Some of the immediate problems often encountered include:

To minimize risk, enhance productivity, and deploy personnel resources more effectively, many companies are turning to experienced software services firms to assume full responsibility for migration projects.

Web Navigation has developed an Systems Migration Methodology (SMM) that incorporates a proven project management approach with empirically based migration techniques. SMM has been the foundation of Web Navigation's migration has evolved as Web Navigation has accumulated experience migrating applications, databases, and operating systems platforms in a variety of technical environments. SMM is used to assess current and target environments, plan an efficient migration, and select and implement the most appropriate migration strategy. Web Navigation provides a full range of customized information systems support services for migrating from one hardware or software technical infrastructure to another, including migration planning, code conversion, restructuring and resizing, software reengineering and forward engineering. In addition, the clients' technical and user staffs are trained in the new environment. Web Navigation has extensive experience in mainframe to midrange platform transitions, migrations to multi-tiered architecture development, and integration of corporate data and RDBMS systems.

Web Navigation's Systems Migration Methodology is the product of many years of real-life migration experience. By using SMM and Web Navigation, your company will benefit from: · A defined plan and approach for evolving software assets · Improved cost planning · Reduced risk · Knowledge and experience in the target environment · Increased availability of key personnel resources.