Migration of Legacy Application to New Microsoft Offerings

In the computing world, the legacy system and architecture are referred to as outdated technologies. The major reason is they are not compatible with modern innovations and thus create pain for programmers to solve coding problems along with the digital challenges. Developers find hard to manage, scale and control these older applications, and if somehow, they manage to do so, the result won’t produce 100% efficiency. These problems highlight the importance of migration and show why shifting to a new platform, Microsoft Azure or cloud services, becomes essential in today’s market. To this effect, we explain the benefits of legacy system migration to the latest Microsoft offerings and services. To begin with, let’s discover a few advantages;

DRIVE MORE AUDIENCE

Migrating legacy systems, applications and architectures to Microsoft Azure brings nimble-witted solutions for your business. It helps you to drive more audience and even converting customers into reliable business relationships. With cloud-based services, fast functionalities and scalable resources, an enterprise can quickly change their business’s operations according to customer requirements. As a result, more and more people will buy your product and share their experience with other fellows.

DISCOVER NEW INSIGHTS

By using new offerings, provided by modernization tools, businesses can experiment new things, discover insights, analytics and implement multiple changes depending on the outcome. Thus, it allows you to make leading decisions, strategies and business models. All of this enables your business to become a part of modern innovations, to convert dreams into ideas and ideas into products.

OPTIMIZING MAINTENANCE

Enterprises spend a lot of money on the maintenance of their legacy architecture due to its poor performance and to get the best outcome from it. But cloud migration can solve this problem, as with healthy infrastructure, serverless architecture, swift deployment and enhanced capabilities, businesses don’t worry about maintenance problems.

After getting a brief overview of migration, let’s explore the combined impact of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core on the business;

ASP.NET CORE AND .NET CORE

The combination of ASP.NET Core and .NET core create ground-breaking performance, which is far better than traditional, and yet alone .NET applications. The improved performance can become useful in below cases;

1. Supporting cross-platform functionalities,
2. Exercising microservices,
3. Exercising Docker containers,
4. Scalable requisites,
5. Upthrust performance,
6. Side-by-side installation of .NET versions.

Furthermore, by hosting web application on a cloud, using Azure services ensure the application’s success in the following ways;

1. Lessen expenditure in the management of hardware, software, data centre, space, etc.
2. Flexible budget and pricing packages.
3. Enhanced reliability.
4. Expand application mobility.
5. Scale up or down the capacity depending on the usage.

The Bottom Line

Since technologies are rapidly changing the face of the modern world, and these changes create an alarming situation for legacy systems. Therefore, migration is necessary to make your business application effective.  .NET, Azure and Cloud, are all the prominent platforms that allow you to shift your business from outdated technologies including VB, COBOL, VFP. 

Do you want to learn more about .NET Framework? Check our latest article ‘‘Everything you need to know about .NET Core 3.0’’.