Migrating from Mainframes to Client-Server Systems.

Abstract

The prevailing trend within the computer industry is to downsize information systems. This quite often entails migrating an application from a centralized mainframe environment to a distributed client-server system. Navy IS managers are often given the mandate to downsize all information systems with out much consideration for the framing issues of strategic planning and Business Process Reengineering(BPR). The decision to migrate off a mainframe is a difficult one to assess, as the issues come from a broad spectrum of sources. This thesis analyzes the management issues, associated with this migration, and looks at both the role of BPR and some of the options to migrate applications off the mainframe to client-server systems. This thesis also aims at educating the Navy IS manager regarding the new client-server computing model as well as providing background to the management practice of BPR.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA305960

Entities

People

  • Todd L. Barnum

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Business Process Reengineering
  • Client Server Systems
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Systems
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Network Computing
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Software Prototyping
  • Systems Management
  • User Interface
  • Word Processors

Readers

  • Economics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering.