The most difficult task enterprises face today is the maintenance and upgrade of their old legacy systems. Constant technological change often reduces the business value of legacy systems, which have been developed over the years, often after huge investments of time, human resources, tech resources, and money. Even though more cost-effective technologies are available, about 80% of IT systems are still running on legacy platforms.

Enterprises now struggle to modernize these older systems while at the same time maintaining their functionality. In addition, HR departments find it increasingly difficult to hire qualified developers who have the experience to work on these older applications.

But despite their obsolescence, legacy systems do provide a competitive advantage because they were designed to support unique business processes and they do still contain invaluable knowledge and historical data.

To help businesses continue to utilize their legacy systems, CTE is dedicated to providing its world-class consulting services to companies operating on the iSeries AS/400 platform. With the newly established AS/400 Development Center at Bangalore, India, we can now handle the full life cycle of AS/400 software development integration and maintenance projects. The AS/400 Development Center is staffed with a team of highly-skilled software engineers that have strong expertise in the design and development of web-based iSeries applications. CTE can help modernize and improve legacy applications and help maintain industrial-strength business applications.

Our areas of expertise include the following industries:
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale and Retail Sales
• Banking, Financials and Insurance Services
• Government

The engineers that make up CTE’s team possess several decades of experience in iSeries AS/400 consulting and they take pride in their high degree of specialization. Their ability to immediately start producing tangible results from the moment they begin work on their respective projects virtually eliminates any costly learning curves, resulting in substantial savings for our clients.

CTE has been providing superior technical and business solutions to the IBM midrange communities, for the following legacy services:
• System analysis, design, and specification
• Application development
• Software migration and data conversion
• Packaged application customization, bolt-ons, and modernization

Applications
• Customer and Order Management
• Inventory, Planning, Scheduling, Shop Floor
• Purchasing and Procurement
• Financials
• County government property assessment, billing, tax collection, DSS applications

The advantages of CTE’s Legacy Services include:
• Highly skilled engineers with strong expertise in design and development
• Application and migration testing without hampering customers’ daily operations, with our two in-house AS/400 series systems
• Highly predictable and cost-effective application/migration methodology