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Author: Packt Publishing Published on: 10th Dec 2008

Oracle SOA - Legacy Modernization Benefits

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Soft-Dollar Benefits	Solution Details	Hard Dollar Benefits
IT Efficiency (3 percent of overall savings here)	To determine increases in IT efficiency, IDC asked questions about the average number of users and jobs supported by each staff member, before and after deploying the job scheduling software. IDC also asked about IT staff salaries.	For the companies surveyed, the average number of users supported by each FTE rose from 552 before deploying the software to 788 afterwards, an increase of 43 percent. The number of jobs supported by each FTE rose by an average of 204 percent, from 424 to 1,287 per day. With an average first-year loaded salary of $98,127, and annual increases of 5 percent, the payroll savings from increased management efficiency averaged $225,545 a year over the three years
Relativity Technologies' Cost Savings References	This information is based upon comparing the cost to doing manual or through processes without Relativity tool set.
Application Portfolio Management	Areas: 1. High level inventory statistics 99.80 percent 2. Dependencies 99.80 percent 3. Boundaries 99.96 percent	99 percent Reduction in cost
Application Documentation		75 percent Reduction in cost
Application Analysis Querying		30 percent Reduction in cost
Business Rule Mining	1. Inventorying rules 2. High-level rule mining 3. Documentation of business rules	74 percent Reduction in cost

Summary

IT organizations are under increasing demand to increase the ability of the business to innovate while controlling and often reducing costs. Legacy modernization is a real opportunity for these goals to be achieved. To attain these goals, the organization needs to take full advantage of emerging advances in platform and software innovations, while leveraging the investment that has been made in the business processes within the legacy environment.

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To make good choices for a specific roadmap to modernization, the decision makers should work to have a good understanding of what these modernization options are, and how to get there. We have outlined fi ve methods of modernization: SOA Integration, Rearchitecture, Platform Migration, Replacement, and Data Modernization as well as some key factors to be considered for each option. We also explored the imperative that all modernization projects start with a legacy understanding phase.

Finally, this chapter exposed you to the advantages and considerations that need to be made when endeavoring to create a roadmap for modernization. In the following chapters, we will examine two of these methods in detail: SOA enablement and rearchitecture, and how you can leverage the Oracle technology stack to achieve these goals. Now that we have built a foundation, let's get into the details.

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