| | Release the value in your existing IT to reduce costs and grow your business | “Replace” is not always the best way forwards. Sometimes, no standard system will deliver the best result, and a complete rebuild faces challenges: by themselves, neither the old nor the new technologies may result in a solution that is cost-effective, complete, or flexible enough to deliver the service you need to achieve your business goals. Retaining, enhancing and integrating new systems into your existing infrastructure may enable you to: - connect your business processes and business applications
- decrease IT complexity
- increase quality of service
- reduce recurrent costs
- improve communication in your supply chain between suppliers, staff and customers
- align IT operations with business goals and comply with standards or regulations
- improve the management of information, the ability to obtain information on demand, and the value that you can generate from it achieve greater business flexibility
“Replace” is not always the best way forwards. Sometimes, no standard system will deliver the best result, and a complete rebuild faces challenges: by themselves, neither the old nor the new technologies may result in a solution that is cost-effective, complete, or flexible enough to deliver the service you need to achieve your business goals. Retaining, enhancing and integrating new systems into your existing infrastructure may enable you to: - connect your business processes and business applications
- decrease IT complexity
- increase quality of service
- reduce recurrent costs
- improve communication in your supply chain between suppliers, staff and customers
- align IT operations with business goals and comply with standards or regulations
- improve the management of information, the ability to obtain information on demand, and the value that you can generate from it achieve greater business flexibility
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|  | How to reduce your risk and use your existing IT investments to grow your business
As IT systems mature, they become more complex, more central to daily business practice, and so become significant business assets – and also significant points of risk should they become unavailable.
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|  | How to spend less and win more value from your technology investments
“Replace” is not always the best way forwards. Sometimes, of itself neither an old or a new technology may result in a solution that is cost-effective, complete, or flexible enough to deliver the service you need to achieve your business goals.
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|  | How to re-use information systems to reduce total cost of ownership
By integrating new systems with legacy applications, customers can capitalise on existing IT investments, maintain complex and highly-customized business processes, and reduce total cost of ownership.
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|  | How re-using legacy systems can mean better business outcomes
Whatever your business goals, Multibase can support them with its experience and expertise in auditing, maintaining and repurposing legacy systems, as well as integrating existing systems into new solutions. You can then look forward to better business operations.
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|  | Case studies - Legacy system services
Multibase specialises in helping our customers leverage new value from the existing IT investments. Here are some examples.
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How to reduce your risk and use your existing IT investments to grow your business Business software and infrastructure systems typically grow over time to incorporate a large number of changes that reflect changing business processes, and have often had many different people working on them. As the systems mature, they become more complex, more central to daily business practice, and so become significant business assets – and also significant points of risk should they become unavailable. At some time in its life, almost every IT system becomes a ‘legacy system’. A mission-critical system may be delivering value for many years, yet over time will face some of the typical range of legacy system challenges: 
As needs change, many businesses find they need to consider the future of their systems, whether because more functions are required, because maintenance resources are scarce, or business circumstances such as organic growth, mergers and acquisitions occur. Sometimes there is an obvious upgrade path from a vendor. In other circumstances, replacement of the system is considered. However, replacement of legacy systems with more modern technology involves significant business risk: - The system documentation, if it exists, is often incomplete, so there is no easy way to specify a new system with exactly the same functionality.
- Business processes and the ways in which the technical systems operate are often inextricably inter-twined. If the system is replaced, these processes will also have to change, with potentially unpredictable costs and consequences, such as hardware, software, training suppliers, and even premises.
- Business rules may be integrated in the software and not clearly known or documented elsewhere
- New software development is itself risky because there are inevitable unknowns.
In this context, the business is eventually faced with the legacy system choice: replace or re-use. 
Business software and infrastructure systems typically grow over time to incorporate a large number of changes that reflect changing business processes, and have often had many different people working on them. As the systems mature, they become more complex, more central to daily business practice, and so become significant business assets – and also significant points of risk should they become unavailable. At some time in its life, almost every IT system becomes a ‘legacy system’. A mission-critical system may be delivering value for many years, yet over time will face some of the typical range of legacy system challenges:
As needs change, many businesses find they need to consider the future of their systems, whether because more functions are required, because maintenance resources are scarce, or business circumstances such as organic growth, mergers and acquisitions occur. Sometimes there is an obvious upgrade path from a vendor. In other circumstances, replacement of the system is considered. However, replacement of legacy systems with more modern technology involves significant business risk: - The system documentation, if it exists, is often incomplete, so there is no easy way to specify a new system with exactly the same functionality.
- Business processes and the ways in which the technical systems operate are often inextricably inter-twined. If the system is replaced, these processes will also have to change, with potentially unpredictable costs and consequences, such as hardware, software, training suppliers, and even premises.
- Business rules may be integrated in the software and not clearly known or documented elsewhere
- New software development is itself risky because there are inevitable unknowns.
In this context, the business is eventually faced with the legacy system choice: replace or re-use.
How to spend less and win more value from your technology investments “Replace” is not always the best way forwards. Sometimes, no standard system will deliver the best result, and a complete rebuild faces challenges: by themselves, neither the old nor the new technologies may result in a solution that is cost-effective, complete, or flexible enough to deliver the service you need to achieve your business goals. Finding the sweet spot for a legacy system project is really the same assessing any other project: Finding the sweet spot for the legacy system project 
In many cases, completely re-building an existing system is slow, and integrating a legacy system into newly developed systems is faster and cheaper. Incrementally extending existing assets, while taking advantage of new technologies, can create new value from existing assets and systems. An example is to provide real time access to what were previously batch transactions, thereby increasing the speed and accuracy of making business decisions. Reusing critical business data and applications can help deliver better customer service to improve customer retention. Legacy system integration can retain existing critical processes and data, yet take advantage of new services to repurpose them. This will protect your existing investments while achieving greater interoperability with other systems in your enterprise as well as those of customers, partners, and suppliers. In this way it is possible to get the best of the old and new worlds, to take advantage of technological progress while leveraging existing assets. Your business can then be more flexible and better able to respond to opportunities to better serve your customers and improve your operations, and so your legacy infrastructure continues to work for you in new and better ways. Making legacy systems work for the business 
“Replace” is not always the best way forwards. Sometimes, no standard system will deliver the best result, and a complete rebuild faces challenges: by themselves, neither the old nor the new technologies may result in a solution that is cost-effective, complete, or flexible enough to deliver the service you need to achieve your business goals. Finding the sweet spot for a legacy system project is really the same assessing any other project: Finding the sweet spot for the legacy system project
In many cases, completely re-building an existing system is slow, and integrating a legacy system into newly developed systems is faster and cheaper. Incrementally extending existing assets, while taking advantage of new technologies, can create new value from existing assets and systems. An example is to provide real time access to what were previously batch transactions, thereby increasing the speed and accuracy of making business decisions. Reusing critical business data and applications can help deliver better customer service to improve customer retention. Legacy system integration can retain existing critical processes and data, yet take advantage of new services to repurpose them. This will protect your existing investments while achieving greater interoperability with other systems in your enterprise as well as those of customers, partners, and suppliers. In this way it is possible to get the best of the old and new worlds, to take advantage of technological progress while leveraging existing assets. Your business can then be more flexible and better able to respond to opportunities to better serve your customers and improve your operations, and so your legacy infrastructure continues to work for you in new and better ways. Making legacy systems work for the business
How to re-use information systems and reduce total cost of ownership By integrating new systems with legacy applications, you can capitalize on existing IT investments, maintain complex and highly-customized business processes, and reduce total cost of ownership. If you start with your business outcomes, then you need to consider how to achieve greater business value from your legacy systems: Approaches to a legacy systems project 
Once this is decided, your IT advisers will be ready to face the technical challenges. Based on long experience, once the goals of your project are decided, Multibase will take charge of resolving these challenges. Facing the technical challenges 
By integrating new systems with legacy applications, you can capitalize on existing IT investments, maintain complex and highly-customized business processes, and reduce total cost of ownership. If you start with your business outcomes, then you need to consider how to achieve greater business value from your legacy systems: Approaches to a legacy systems project
Once this is decided, your IT advisers will be ready to face the technical challenges. Based on long experience, once the goals of your project are decided, Multibase will take charge of resolving these challenges. Facing the technical challenges How re-using legacy systems can lead to better business outcomes Whatever your business goals, Multibase can support them with its experience and expertise in auditing, maintaining and repurposing legacy systems, as well as integrating existing systems into new solutions. You can then look forward to better business operations. 
Whatever your business goals, Multibase can support them with its experience and expertise in auditing, maintaining and repurposing legacy systems, as well as integrating existing systems into new solutions. You can then look forward to better business operations.
Bespoke accounting system
A bespoke accounting system for the building industry enabled the client to transition from a paper based to a completely computerised system.
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Extended productivity for a custom accounting system
With strategic extensions to a bespoke accounting system for the building industry, the client was able to achieve an additional 15 years of productive life its legacy accounting system.
View this case study [PDF document - 105Kb] Legacy system productive for 27 years
With strategic extensions to a bespoke accounting system for the building industry, the client was able to achieve 27 years of productive life its legacy accounting system, at a fraction of the cost of a packaged system.
View this case study [PDF document - 112Kb] Delivering critical environmental care information
Valuable environmental information is repurposed from a legacy format CD to modern web presentation to assist in water catchment management.
View this case study [PDF document - 112Kb] Multimedia helps improve water catchments
Multimedia material of diverse nature is incorporated into an existing web application to achieve improved educational and interpretive outcomes for natural resource information.
View this case study [PDF document - 112Kb] Helping patients manage their own health care
A local registration and access system with multi-tiered security is integrated into a system located in a different country, enabling patients to store health information securely via the web, contributing to the client’s marketing and patient care programs.
View this case study [PDF document - 123Kb] Electronic human resources
The combination of a secure, targeted survey and web technologies allows the collecting of valuable information to be done in a systematic and verifiable manner without the expense of using a third party research agency.
View this case study [PDF document - 121Kb] Online information system fuels business growth
When government departments Australia-wide started to move from providing manual retail access to their information to a wholesale model selling only through information brokers, the client was a small law stationer turning over a few million dollars per year from their Sydney office. They approached Multibase to help them to become an information broker, delivering information via the Internet.
View this case study [PDF document - 123Kb] Award winning mining information search and delivery system
Multibase develops an award winning web-based system for storage, retrieval and delivery of mining reports via the web.
View this case study [PDF document - 123Kb] Strategic planning reduces hosting cost
Collaborative strategy planning achieves the outcome for an application hosting project, at a quarter of the initial cost expectation.
View this case study [PDF document - 120Kb] Integrated view of personal financial information through the web
A new system is developed to deliver to superannuation members a complete view of their financial information, from multiple secure data sources, and previously not available in real time.
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More information Secure cash movement tracking system
A highly secure software system is developed to assist in the daily management of the finances of the full range of government agencies.
View this case study [PDF document - 112Kb] Accounting for a developing country
A developing country’s Department of Finance upgrades its bespoke accounting system to operate in today’s server environments and continues to achieve substantial ROI and value creation as it achieves more than 20 years of productive life.
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