Why Forms2Net?
1. Faster
- Migration tools, including Forms2Net, by definition permit application migration in significantly less time than manual approaches. Forms2Net has been benchmarked in saving more than 80% of the time compared to labor-intensive approaches.
2. Forms2Net based migration is in the vast majority of cases cheaper than manual migration.
3. Forms2net provides considerably more accurate budget and time estimations before starting the migration project
4. Less Risk
- Manual approaches may suffer from non-uniform or inconsistent migration results and the management overhead for guaranteeing migration consistency across teams is significant.
- Manual approaches suffer from higher probability of errors due to increased human intervention.
- Building up the required expertise on both the source and target platforms can be difficult, time consuming and costly.
- With manual application redevelopment, crucial business knowledge can be lost and 100% functional equivalence is very hard and very costly to be delivered.
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Numbers¹ on manual development projects speak for
themselves:
- 55% exceeded projected budget.
- 68% took longer to complete than expected.
- 88% had to be substantially redesigned.
¹ from IBM study on software development projects
5. By delivering 100% pure, Visual Studio integrated .NET code and by following the Microsoft recommended .NET best practices, Forms2Net guarantees better maintainability and considerable lower Total Cost of Ownership for the resulting .NET application.
6. Architectural Optimizations (including SOA): The MVC-based compositional structures in which the Oracle Forms application is converted provide increased opportunities for the subsequent fine-tuning and evolution of the application, especially towards a SOA approach.
7. Functional Equivalence:
- Crucial business knowledge is preserved and current investments are protected.
- Less time and effort for tests after code conversion.