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Proposal of a Framework for Information Migration from Legacy Applications in Solidarity Financial Sector Entities

Abstract:

Software development tools evolve rapidly, which allows the design and implementation of new software applications that optimize every time the automation of processes required in any type of business sectors. New applications replace legacy systems including also the upgrade of operating systems and infrastructure. However, information is a resource that cannot be replaced and requires the cleaning, improvement and movement from the legacy system to the new target application; this process is called information migration. In literature, migration focused on infrastructure and information is limited only to the creation of tools for Extraction-Transform-Load, which in most of the cases is enough. In developing countries, Solidarity Financial Sector Entities are entities that grow quickly and often require the migration of software systems and therefore their corresponding information. In this context, we propose a framework called Financial Migration Framework that exposes guidelines for the process of information migration that protects the legacy information and ensures the quality of information for correct operation of the target application. For validation purposes, the framework was applied in two Entities, allowing the evaluation of the financial information clients’ privacy and the process duration. To visualize these results, surveys were applied to the stakeholders who participated in each activity, and the results indicate for both Entities the quality of the migrated information allows the correct operation of the new target system, even though the process duration did not meet their expectations.