Challenges in migrating legacy software systems to the cloud — an empirical study
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Gholami, Mahdi Fahmideh, Daneshgar, Farhad, Beydoun, Ghassan and Rabhi, Fethi. 2017. "Challenges in migrating legacy software systems to the cloud — an empirical study." Information Systems. 67, pp. 100-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2017.03.008
| Article Title | Challenges in migrating legacy software systems to the cloud — an empirical study |
|---|---|
| ERA Journal ID | 39628 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | Gholami, Mahdi Fahmideh, Daneshgar, Farhad, Beydoun, Ghassan and Rabhi, Fethi |
| Journal Title | Information Systems |
| Journal Citation | 67, pp. 100-113 |
| Number of Pages | 14 |
| Year | Jul 2017 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
| ISSN | 0306-4379 |
| 1873-6076 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2017.03.008 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306437917301564 |
| Abstract | Moving existing legacy systems to cloud platforms is a difficult and high cost process that may involve technical and non-technical resources and challenges. There is evidence that the lack of understanding and preparedness of cloud computing migration underpin many migration failures in achieving organisations’ goals. The main goal of this article is to identify the most important challenging activities for moving legacy systems to cloud platforms from a perspective of reengineering process. Through a combination of a bottom-up and a top-down analysis, a set of common activities is derived from the extant cloud computing literature. These are expressed as a model and are validated using a population of 104 shortlisted and randomly selected domain experts from different industry sectors. We used a Web-based survey questionnaire to collect data and analysed them using SPSS Sample T-Test. The results of this study highlight the most important and critical challenges that should be addressed by various roles within a legacy to cloud migration endeavour. The study provides an overall understanding of this process including common occurring activities, concerns and recommendations. In addition, the findings of this study constitute a practical guide to conduct this transition. This guide is platform agnostic and independent from any specific migration scenario, cloud platform, or an application domain. |
| Keywords | Cloud computing; Legacy systems; Cloud migration; Cloud migration process |
| Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 460908. Information systems organisation and management |
| Public Notes | The accessible file is the accepted version of the paper. Please refer to the URL for the published version. |
| Byline Affiliations | University of New South Wales |
| University of Technology Sydney | |
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