DDC-I Migration Assessment StudiesIn-depth technical studies of the options, risks, and a suggested technical strategy to migrate legacy applications to new target hardware, development environments, compiler versions, or onto newer programming languages. DDC-I's Migration Assessment studies offer a cost-effective, qualified, and third party view of the efforts and expenses involved in a language, target, or host migration.Features Outlines current environment Identifies application-specific migration issues Assesses the risks of the migration Recommends solutions based on risk mitigation and costs Provides work breakdowns Provides refined cost & labor estimates Includes applicable quotes if DDC-I were to perform the migration Benefits Interim step before committing to a migration project Scopes the migration effort Cost Labor (in-house or out-source) Schedule Removes technical "unknowns" Presents technical management strategies Migrating software can be a sensitive or costly venture. This is especially the case for legacy applications as they are more difficult to port due to a host of potential pitfalls (e.g., programming language nuisances, compiler [vendor] implementations, runtime and hardware dependencies, use of extensions beyond the defined programming language, application code structures, etc.). Further, migrating applications may impact prior (e.g., DO-178) certification efforts. DDC-I's Migration Assessment Studies resolves these unknowns, by providing a comprehensive technical study that identifies the migration's technical challenges, proposes technical solutions and recommendations of how to approach the migration effort, and a manpower and, if applicable, DDC-I's service cost estimates. DDC-I Migration Assessment Studies are independent of other DDC-I services, and may be used to simply help scope and manage internal resources for migration efforts.Migration Assessment Study Processes start with an initial set of technical conference call(s) followed by an on-site study of the application and the development environment. This on-site study is performed by a DDC-I software expert, who is selected based upon the type of migration considered. As applicable, an on-site study often includes recompiling part of the application to the new language host, or target environment, and may include an in-depth analysis of the user's development environment and applicable third party software tools and code bases. From this vantage point, the DDC-I expert then returns to DDC-I and develops the Migration Assessment Study which undergoes a series of internal DDC-I peer reviews before it is presented to the customer.