What We Deliver
Athens Group spent the time to understand our vision and our unique business approach. They then helped design and implement a merchandise tracking system for us that provides the kind of dynamic decision making we need to run our stores effectively. Athens Group has proven to be an innovative, dependable and flexible partner.”
—Lee Aaronson CEO, Lacks Valley Stores
A lower-risk, lower-cost incremental approach to moving legacy systems to a new technology base — delivering business value sooner
Most companies have spent millions over the last five decades automating manual functions. This investment has resulted in a complex IT portfolio with a mix of COBOL applications running on main frames to web-based Java applications and everything in between. In those same fifty years, competition and the size of successful companies have grown significantly. This combination has created the need for increased system scalability and integration, improved cross-functional business process, greater flexibility to support rapid change and reduced system maintenance and support costs.
Although newer ERP solutions are an option, a "rip and replace" strategy, coupled with a big-bang implementation is costly and disruptive. Many companies need a step-function improvement approach. Legacy Evolution is the lower-risk, lower-cost alternative. By incrementally replacing and extending application functionality on a modern technology base, the business is able to derive value sooner.
What We Deliver
- Objective. We bring complete objectivity to the project. We’re not selling a platform, an application or a tool. Our recommendations are completely based on your business needs, priorities, and goals.
- Holistic. Our diverse set of capabilities in business analysis, software design, and technology selection ensures your solution is comprehensive and realistic.
- Incremental. Starting with your technology roadmap, and comprehensive data architecture, we identify pieces of functionality that need to be re-implemented using best-of-breed applications and/or custom software. The segmenting and sequencing of the incremental steps is unique to each customer and is based on the architecture of the legacy systems as well as the priorities for new business capabilities. This is a proven approach with faster results and lower risk.
- Collaborative. We take a collaborative approach so that your IT team is directly involved in all phases. Where new technology is involved, knowledge transfer is built into the project plan so that your team is fully ready and capable of maintaining – and extending – the new solution.
We provide the following related additional services:
Technology Strategy
Architecture Analysis & Design
Software Design & Development
Package Selection
Solution Integration
Project Management