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The Myth of Visual Basic Migration / Upgrade

The myths about Visual Basic migration make it easy to play the “blame” game instead of trying to understand the issue. Often, in making the wrong assumptions, we “write off” some alternatives without even considering them. However, with training, support from automatic migration products and the use of a comprehensive migration methodology, the migration is not only possible using a fraction of the resources required for a rewrite, but it is also the right choice to reduce the Total Cost of Operation and prepare applications to maximize their future business value.

BANAMEX signs automatic VB6 migration contract with ArtinSoft

The launch of ArtinSoft's spanish web site (www.artinsoft.com.mx)  comes in synch with ArtinSoft's winning a very large contract to migrate over 170 Visual Basic applications at Banamex (a Citi Group subsidiary).  The applications will be fully updated and deployed by the bank in less than one year period.  This is a record time for such a large migration project: over 5 millions lines of code! 

Banamex performed extensive research on how to approach the VB6 support deadline.  Since the beginning of the evaluation process the internal debate was weather to automatically migrate or to rewrite the apps. 

They did a full assessment of their application portfolio and separeted the applications that were about to be retired and choose the applications that were functionally relevant to the business.   They observed that the chosen applications were simply performing all the business requirements they were supposed to perform, therefore no need to change them functionally!    The next realization was that a rewriting was definetely NOT the cost-effective way to solve the situation.  The estimated difference betweeb a rewrite and a migration was 5 to 1.

Banamex showed once more that if your application is performing and what you need to do is move to adopt .NET and all the benefits that come with it then the best way forward is through automatic upgrade.

 

Read more about the Banamex story at: the following links (some are in spanish):

 

La República: http://www.larepublica.net/app/cms/www/index.php?pk_articulo=854

El Financiero: www.elfinancierocr.com/edactual/tecnologia1231205.html

CIO América Latina: http://www.cioal.com/pcwla/cioaldocs.nsf/pages/8E66B81ACF8DB582852573500015F54B

Pergamino Virtual: http://www.pergaminovirtual.com.ar/revista/cgi-bin/hoy/archivos/2007/00001122.shtml

Business News Americas: http://bnamericas.com/login.jsp?idioma=I&urlJump=story.jsp$SEP$idioma$EQ$I$AMP$sector$EQ$1$AMP$noticia$EQ$406218

Yahoo! España: http://es.biz.yahoo.com/10092007/185/firma-costarricense-software-moderniza-sistemas-banamex.html

Yahoo! México: http://mx.news.yahoo.com/.../38/negocios-firma-costarricense-software-moderniza-sistemas-banamex.html&printer=1

La Prensa Gráfica: www.laprensagrafica.com/economia/870594.asp

TMCnet: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/09/10/2925480.htm

Published Sep 12 2007, 11:31 AM by Fzoufaly

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Jose Aguilar's Blog said:

A couple of cultural differences of doing business in Latin America, specifically in Mexico, and the rest of the world.
December 6, 2007 4:18 PM

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About Fzoufaly

Federico—ArtinSoft co-founder—holds a PhDC in Computer Science from the University of Florida, and a Master's degree in Computer Science and an honors Licentiate degree in Electronics Engineering from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology (ITCR). Federico has been a faculty member of both the ITCR Computer Science Department and the University of Florida. He is currently the Executive Vice President in charge of operations at ArtinSoft. Previously, he was vice president of ZIPTEK Inc., a technology-based company that offers consultancy services in automation networks. In 1993, the year he co-founded ArtinSoft, he won the National Electronics Award in the Research Category, awarded by the Costa Rican Federated College of Engineers and Architects. Federico has had an active participation in several local electronic and computer research projects. He is a founding member of the Costa Rican Association of Electronics Engineers and has served as a member of its Board of Directors since 1992, holding its Presidency on two occasions. He is also member of the Association for Computing Machines, the IEEE, as well as an active member of the College of Technological Engineers. Currently Federico is doing Product Management for ArtinSoft's newest line of business: Aggiorno: www.aggiorno.com

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Myth: "Visual Basic Migrations are not worth it." Current Status: BUSTED! Summary: Visual Basic Upgrade/Migrations are the most cost effective and less risky approach to evolve your code and take full advantage of .NET. The process to upgrade is not trivial, but THERE IS a process that can be followed and guarantees success.

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