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Simple Answers Ltd 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.

With over 4 years experience delivering state-of-the-art IT solutions, Simple Answers Ltd offers our refined business acumen and deep technical skills, as well as our internally developed set of tools and methodology, to help guide you through the potentially complex and tricky process of re-engineering for the following initiatives.

Learn More About Our Software Re-Engineering Services

Provided below are four software re-engineering services that we provide. Please take a few moments to learn about our services. If you have any questions please dont hesitate to contact us.

	Porting & Migration
	Legacy Systems & Application Re-engineering
	Project Recovery
	Web Application Migration

Porting & Migration

In order to make a product accessible to a wider base of potential customers or to retain key customer segments migrating to an unsupported technology platform, many businesses seek to port or migrate their existing products to new platforms. As mature products become obsolete, the outdated technology makes product support and upgrades difficult and costly.

To make our clients software products more competitive, Simple Answers Ltd offers porting and migration services that accelerate time-to-market using their talented pool of migration specialists and result in complete knowledge transfer to the client to minimize the costs of future product enhancements.

Simple Answers offers the following porting and migration services:

	Assessment of the product to be migrated
	Research of the platform to be supported
	Review of functionality transfer
	New system optimisation and tuning
	Risk and cost analyses assessments
	Implementation of the migration

If your business is considering having software ported to a new platform or technology then we would be interested to hear from you. Please use our enquiry form (located at the top of this page) to inform us of your project requirements.

Legacy Systems & Application Re-engineering

Advancements in information technology can fundamentally change the nature of business operations, necessitating the re-engineering of legacy IT systems and applications to new environments capable of supporting evolving business needs, while preserving established rules and practices. Other motivating factors for engaging in re-engineering initiatives include coping with rising maintenance costs due to non-standardized code and instability caused by multiple patches over time.

However, engaging in systems and application re-engineering projects can be challenging. Selecting the enabling technology and recovering lost documentation and source code can be time-consuming bottlenecks to achieving project success. To overcome these challenges, Simple Answers Ltd offers end-to-end systems and application re-engineering services, including:

	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
	Recovery and documentation of code for future modifications

If your business is considering having its software enhanced and updated then we would be interested to hear from you. Please use our enquiry form (located at the top of this page) to inform us of your project requirements.

Project Recovery

Many of Simple Answers clients have turned to us to help recover failed, failing, or "can't be done" projects. The causes of project failure can be varied: from cost and/or time overruns/underestimations due to poor project management or insufficient resource allocation to the occurrence of a catastrophic event (irretrievable loss of data/personnel).

In any case, Simple Answers is here to help breathe life into these projects and collaboratively see them through to fruition, enabling at least a partial recoup of investment. Moreover, we provide a fresh perspective on how to achieve project goals and accelerate project recovery by maximizing code reuse. To overcome barriers to success, Simple Answers offers the following project recovery services:

	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 customer's personnel

If your business feels one of its IT projects is failing and would like it outsourced to another software house then we would be interested to hear from you. Please use our enquiry form (located at the top of this page) to inform us of your project requirements.

Web Application Migration

Legacy (Common Gateway Interface) CGI web applications for business automation running in Linux/Unix environments pose many difficult challenges for enterprise IT managers. These applications inherently:

	Difficult to maintain due to a lack of resources fully trained in CGI.
	Exhibit poor performance
	Suffer from the technological limits of CGI
	Cannot adapt to changing business environments.

Simple Answers can modernise CGI web applications utilising our innovation Web Framework Solution. This approach based on Flexiweb improves performance by a factor of ten. Also, maintainability is enhanced by providing a layered architecture that doesn't intermix HTML presentation with business rules. This in turn promotes the separation of the web developer role in your IT organisation from that of the application developer. This further results in an enterprise application that can react quickly to support business changes.

Simple Answers's Web Application Migration services:

	Provides a rich set of web application services.
	Support for reusable functional web modules.
	Integrates seamlessly with legacy business logic written in C or C++ without "rewrite-from-scratch"
	Leverages existing programming skills of IT personnel.
	Is portable across platforms and servers and runs on typical server hardware.

If your business feels it could benefit from our web application migration services then we would be interested to hear from you. Please use our enquiry form (located at the top of this page) to inform us of your project requirements.