Delphi Software Re-engineering
We re-engineer all types of software built with any version of Delphi
What Software Re-engineering is not
A typical re-engineering project encompasses a combination of other processes such as migration, feature
enhancement, UX/UI modernization
Re-engineering is a way to build (design and develop) a new software based on the existing one, using
modern technologies, approaches and hardware
Re-engineering is not migration
Re-engineering is not modernization
Re-engineering is not functionality enhancement
Reasons to reengineer software
Obsolescence of the technologies the software is built with
- Harder and harder to find developers know those technologies
- More and more time-money is required to add new functionality
- User interface (UI) can not be modified or updated
The necessity to perform software migration
- Move from Desktop to Cloud
- Migrate to another programming language
- Data or Business logic migration
Dissatisfaction with software maintainability
- Poor performance and stability
- Obsolete UI/UX
- Integrations inability
Introduction of changes in business
- Business-processes re-engineering
- Business intelligence implementation
- Artificial intelligence integration
Risks of re-engineering
Re-engineering is aimed to reduce actual and potential risks related to the usage of legacy software, but
has its own risks being a complicated engineering process
Extremely high volume of manual work with another’s code
Subject matter experts of the business
Lack of management commitment
Others
New UX is not intuitive
Update or auto update process is complex
User Interface (UI) is outdated
Expensive backups
Inappropriate re-documentation
Various test coverage issues
Missing Requirements
Inappropriate Constraints
Others
Types of software re-engineering projects
Virtualization
01
Virtualization is a fairly old technology but it is still a super relevant approach to a system undergoing
evolution in
a form of re-engineering. There are several types of virtualization. Hardware virtualization. We apply a
hardware
virtualization approach when you switch from using legacy hardware. The existing software system is not
modified. You do
not pay for software modernization but the burden of legacy system maintenance costs remains. Software
virtualization.
There are several types of software virtualization but all of them aim to increase the utilization of
computing
resources.
Wrapping old code
02
Code wrapping is a way to get access to the existing functionality via API. Code wrapping can be an
effective
way for complicated legacy systems, or poorly designed software that does not support some data formats,
or
in other cases when we need to ensure technologies interoperability. In this type of re-engineering
projects
you pay for the development of code wrapping your existing system or minimal changes of the system’s
source
code.
Source code translation
03
The reasons to the source code translation are: IT infrastructure hardware update, lack of personnel
capable of
maintaining legacy code, regulation policy changes, loss of support for the technology the system is built
with. Despite
automated source code translation can be economically effective, the generated code is usually
unmaintainable and does
not use the paradigms of the target language. In source code translation projects you pay for code
translation software
software and further manual corrections to the generated code.
Data re-engineering
04
Your business may need data re-engineering because your system stores data in legacy databases or uses
legacy DMS but not
only. The other reasons may be data degradation, system built-in constraints, redundant and duplicated
information
collected and other reasons. Data re-engineering projects are associated with the data structures analysis
and their
further conversion according the the requirements of new system.
Reverse engineering
05
We resort to reverse engineering in a few cases. The first one is because the documentation describing how
the system
works has been either lost or it was never written. And the only way to incorporate the system
functionality is to
reverse-engineer it and then re-design it with new technology. In this case Reverse engineering is one of
the steps of a
re-engineering project. The second reason to reverse engineering is to build a system the source code of
which you do
not have access to (to repeat someone else’s success).
Consider More Services
Delphi migration
We chose the best migration strategy according to your project requirements to make migration cost effective.
UX/UI modernization
Transform your legacy applications to become more agile and efficient through the power of New IT.
Software Integration
We integrate ERP systems and Delphi applications and with 3rd party platfroms and systems via API.
