In order to meet business requirements for interoperability and shared services, our customers increasingly require architectural support in the integration of legacy environments with new, web-enabled front-ends and any middleware as appropriate.  This usually includes detailed assessment of data, application and presentation layers, identification of metadata and definition of information models where appropriate (such as content management applications), and development of the data migration and storage strategy which can be very complex in multi-level systems with many feeders and triggers.

Our experience spans both XML and J2EE-type environments, and includes sizing of systems, and developing functional and technical architecture definitions, covering hardware, software and available components for both the target platform and the development platform, including a description of their interactions.

Methods has considerable experience in ensuring our clients are able to realise the benefits of virtualisation and interoperability, by co-ordinating a rationalisation of the legacy environment, a refocusing of current projects against the future business and technical architecture, and the introduction of those new components of the technical architecture not already addressed within legacy or current projects.

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