Reuse of software modules is seen as one way of raising software productivity, and an effective way of realising software reuse is to port relatively large modules across different machines and/or platforms. The best approach to making porting more productive is to compile the know-how related to porting work and provide tools to support that work.

Porting projects require significant specification, planning, and management efforts in order to assure success, to deliver a quality product supporting the target platform. We follow the following steps in migration as part of our migration process.

• Planning and Detailed Assessment
  Investigate and analyse the software product and environment, perform gap analysis before start of the porting. After identifying the scope, perform feasibility study of the porting work and its costing, and prepare the best possible delivery schedules
• Tool Development and Customisation
  Select and customise best suited software tools for the code and utilities migration. Identify, if any software tools are available for data migration and environment migration
• Pilot Test Migration
  Port a test application and use the results to fine-tune the process. This also helps in building the customer confidence
• Software Product Migration
  Carry out the migration work. The migrated code, tools and documentation are the deliverables of this phase
• Testing
  Test the migrated software and conduct stress and performance testing
• Installation, Warranty and Product Support
  Install the software at the customer site and train the developers