That cranky old battleship-grey Windows system… the millennium bug and Y2K compliancy? How about the doom-laden, Nostradamus-like predictions that bank accounts around the world would be wiped clean and aircraft would fall from the skies because the two-digit date format was fundamentally flawed? Thankfully, some predictions didn’t come true. However, one truism you can bank on; legacy systems — love them or hate them — are here to stay.
Why? They’re old, they’re ugly and they’re obsolete.
Maybe, but they’re also paid for, they work, they’re enterprise-wide and completely indispensable to the business, plus, their support issues are as well documented as their operating costs.
That’s all true, but they’re holding us back because they look bad and their architecture is so antiquated, it’s impossible to get them to interface seamlessly with those newer, more cost-effective solutions. Isn’t it?
Not any more.

BACK TO THE FUTURE

As a long-standing Ingres customer, you know how business–critical your enterprise-wide ABF or OpenROAD system is. Without it, everything would grind to a halt. But you also know that to stay competitive, you really need to find a way to seamlessly integrate it with newer Web 2.0- or Java- or .NET-based technologies. Or maybe this sounds familiar, “We’ve made a financial decision; we won’t be replacing the system this year.”
So imagine the effect of transforming the look-and-feel of your legacy application and running it in a browser alongside your other applications… imagine the positive impact it would have on user-confidence and productivity… imagine the reduction it would have on support calls… and imagine the slew of improved functionality such as reporting or third-party system access that could be added overnight at virtually zero cost.
Stop imagining… because as from today you can do all that and much, much more. It’s called Alchemy, and it’s a service available from Ingres.
We can rejuvenate your Ingres-based legacy system, make it look cutting-edge, give it a functional makeover so it can deal with real-world, 21st century business issues, and extend its life — for a whole lot less than you probably think it will cost.

It’s a low-risk, high-return operation which will provide the business with major returns on an historic investment for a fraction of the cost of a Greenfield system. Not only that, a rejuvenation will allow platform migration while simultaneously allowing you to deploy eClient or browser user interfaces, plus add system integration functionality for other intranet or extranet resources. You decide how much or how little you want to refresh, but fundamentally — and here’s the thing — it gives you options. Without risks.

And all without scrapping your existing, proven, tested, working, paid for application.

So when we say back to the future, perhaps we mean back from the dead.

Alchemy can rejuvenate your Ingres-based legacy system, make it look cutting-edge, give it a functional makeover so it can deal with real-world, 21st century business issues, and extend its life — for a whole lot less than you probably think it will cost.

FREE PREVIEW

If you’d like a completely free preview of how your very own system could look after zapping it back to the future, then please contact Arsys, the European distributor of Ingres.