Datacom automated conversions. Tiburon is a national leader in performing an automated Datacom migration to SQL Server, Oracle or DB2. We have our own in-house proprietary tools to automate the migration effort and mitigate risk.

Tiburon has assisted multiple clients in migrations from legacy systems to IBM, Oracle and Microsoft technologies. Many of our migrations were driven by application requirements to implement Oracle 11i or SAP as well as corporate commitments to a standardized computing platform such as DB2/UDB or Oracle. Our Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) project methodology developed for migrations has allowed us to migrate to mainframe platforms and distributed system environments.

Our consultants have years of specific migration experience. We have found that the automated tool cost is usually only 20%-25% of the overall migration cost. By involving people with migration experience that understand the issues at hand and can anticipate challenges that may arise, we have been able to provide great value to our clients. We can help you to meet your deadlines.

A common approach to a migration is to perform an ROI, assessment, pilot project and migration. Tiburon provides the capability to perform a comprehensive ROI to determine the value of a migration to another application or platform. We can perform a migration assessment providing inventory analysis, project planning, staffing requirements, software evaluation criteria for tools and application support, a pilot project scope and the cost structure for the project. The three criteria we help determine are migrate, replace or re-engineer each application.

Tiburon's approach to migration conversion consists of an application conversion, system configuration, application configuration and a system implementation. The application entities such as IDEAL, Datacom COBOL, and Dataquerys are converted using an automated tools to deliver a COBOL SQL-based application. The Datacom data structures are converted to a relational format and unload/load programs are automatically generated. Performance metrics, application requirements, and the target environment are utilized to complete the relational design. The JCL, sort parameters and Job schedule are converted using an automated process providing updated mainframe JCL or Unix system level processing. The system and application configurations are dependent on end-user environments, with Tiburon providing the ability to be a solution provider for hardware, software, training and implementation.

Tiburon Technologies is celebrating its twentieth (20th) year of supporting legacy systems. Tiburon has expertise that ranges from legacy systems support to legacy systems modernization. Many of our staff are former personnel that worked for the vendor, such as IBM and Computer Associates (CA), and have helped develop the legacy system database or integrated applications. Tiburon has well over 750 man years supporting legacy systems engagements and thousands of years of experience.