Software Re-engineering

Re-engineering Initiatives

InterLink has the resources, tools, and expertise to assist you at every step in the process of enhancing, upgrading, migrating, porting, or recovering your enterprise applications and information systems. We specialize in moving enterprise applications and commercial products to .NET and CGI_ application migrations.

Porting and Migration

Porting and Migration Initiatives

Challenges facing our clients

Making a product accessible to a wider base of potential customers
Migration of key customer segments to an unsupported technology platform
Mature product becoming uncompetitive and obsolete
Outdated technology making product support and upgrades difficult

InterLink offers

Research of the product platform to be migrated
Review of opportunities
Risk and cost analyses
Implementation of migration
New system optimization and tuning

Advantages of partnering with InterLink

Quicker time-to-market using InterLink's talented pool of integration specialists
Complete knowledge transfer enabling the client to minimize costs of future product enhancements
Attract new customers with a competitive product capable of serving a wider market

Moving to .NET

Challenges facing our clients

High TCO and maintenance costs for business applications
Scalability, performance, and integration issues
Rising development costs
Inability of existing technology to support mobile workforce

InterLink offers

InterLink's .NET migration framework that retains critical business support functionality, accelerates technology migration, and smoothly transitions business operations, while reducing maintenance and further development costs
Incremental implementation to progressively migrate each system component to ensure reliability and integration
Development of additional functionality for each component in .NET to support evolving business needs, while preserving established rules and practices
Development of thick clients and web applications to support business process and rules with transaction technologies

Advantages of partnering with InterLink

Substantial .NET migration experience for vertical industries
InterLink's engine for business rules and processes definition and automation to reduce maintenance costs and improve operational efficiency
Demonstration of .NET migration value at each phased migration step

CGI Migration

CGI-based Application Migration

Challenges facing our clients

Legacy CGI web applications in Linux/Unix environments have become difficult to maintain due to a lack of resources fully trained in CGI
Poor performance of CGI-based applications
Technological limits of CGI hamper further development
Inability of CGI applications to adapt to changing business environments

InterLink offers

Web application services, including authentication and role-based authorization, rich ASP.NET-like object model, full set of ASP.NET web controls, and support for reusable functional elements
Seamless integration with legacy business logic written in C or C++ without "rewrite-from-scratch"
Development that leverages existing programming skills of IT personnel
Portable solutions across platforms and servers that run on typical server hardware

Advantages of partnering with InterLink

Modernization of CGI applications with InterLink's innovative Web Framework Solution based on Fast CGI to significantly improve performance
Improved maintainability through a layered architecture that doesn't intermix HTML presentation with business rules
Promotion of role separation between web developer and application developer to more quickly react to business changes
Faster development time due to rich web framework facilities and visual page design

Legacy Systems and Application Re-engineering

Challenges facing our clients

Current product design limit improvement
Foundation technology is outdated and makes the product uncompetitive
Non-standardized code increasing the cost of maintenance

InterLink offers

Analyses of product functionality
Feasibility Assessments of required modifications
Selection of technology to be used
Research and development of new algorithms
Product roadmap and prototyping

Advantages of partnering with InterLink

Reduction in cost of support and maintenance of existing IT infrastructure
Reduction in the cost of upgrades
Acquisition of new technology and functionality
Solutions built by forward-thinking software engineers that are flexible and extendable for future modifications and enhancement

Enterprise Application Integration

Challenges facing our clients

An enterprise "patchwork" of systems that is difficult and costly to maintain and enhance
Applications without communication bridges between different functional uses of the systems (such as separate billing, accounting, and sales systems) and different departments
Incongruent software product portfolio or disparate enterprise information systems due to recent merger/acquisition

InterLink offers

Determination of a unified data and process model
Research of the integration platform
Cost, benefit, and risk assessments
Full implementation of the integrated solution through design, development and testing
Optimization and fine-tuning to achieve all integration objectives

Advantages of partnering with InterLink

Experience performing high-profile integration projects in the telecommunications and financial services markets
Integration specialist well-versed in industry standard EAI platforms and protocols to tie together disparate applications and information systems
InterLink's proven EAI toolkit that accelerates integration projects

Project Recovery

Challenges facing our clients

Poor project management
Insufficient resource allocation
Cost overruns/underestimations
Catastrophic event (irretrievable loss of data/personnel)

InterLink offers

Project Assessment
Recovery Planning
Replacement or augmentation of development staff
Code audit and Improvement recommendations
Code recovery and/or technical documentation
Implementation of development
Training of client-side personnel

Advantages of partnering with InterLink

At least partial recuperation of investment
Maximization of code reuse to speed project recovery
Talented and proven project methodology and personnel to ensure success