In this groundbreaking exploration of one of the knottiest problems in corporate reengineering today, Narsim Ganti and William Brayman clearly explain the conceptual foundations of migrating legacy systems. They outline a series of rational steps IS managers can take to realign their organizations' information technology with changing business strategies. Packed with cutting-edge strategies and techniques for making the transition as painless and effortless as possible, this book arms readers with:

• A groundbreaking, architecture-based approach to migrating legacy systems
• New methods for releasing data embedded in legacy systems to a distributed environment
• Guidelines on visualizing the transition process from both an enterprise and end-user perspective
• Proven techniques for applying the concepts of business process redesign to information system redesign