Exigen Services Launches Legacy System Rejuvenation Service to Extend Existing IT Application Investments

 — Exigen® Services, the leading next generation application outsourcing provider, today launched the Legacy System Rejuvenation Service designed to extend legacy IT systems and protect existing investments. The offering provides customers a cost-effective option to replacing entire legacy applications by streamlining and strengthening existing code, and provide a framework for state-of-the-art quality assurance and testing procedures.

Each Legacy System Rejuvenation Service project first undergoes a detailed assessment of the costs incurred by the company from stretching their current legacy systems without rejuvenation. Exigen Services then provides a comparative analysis highlighting the cost savings achievable by modernizing the legacy application.

From the assessment to the finished project, Exigen Services' Legacy System Rejuvenation Service targets specific dangers commonly resulting from relying on outdated systems. Each project consists of the following:

• Application code evaluation: a top-down examination of the legacy application to analyze weaknesses and evaluate what is needed in the most cost-efficient manner. Exigen Services looks at how the application is used currently and what the business requires of it.
• Strengthen and reinforce existing code: identifying what pieces of the application can remain intact and which need replacing or updating to support current and future requirements of the application. Exigen Services uses Agile practices to adapt to unanticipated project changes common when reworking fragile legacy code, keeping the project cost and delivery date in line with the original goals.
• Recapture system knowledge loss: mapping lost or forgotten code knowledge while integrating the updated pieces to ensure future interaction with the legacy system is easy and documented.
• Build Agile quality assurance (QA) and testing practices: identify and implement the most effective combination of automated and manual testing procedures based on established best practices. Exigen Services provides training and documentation for the updated application, empowering customers to manage, test, tweak and interact with the system long after the project is over.

The packaged service is offered in three tiers designed to be flexible and meet the market conditions enterprises are currently dealing with. These include: Basic, Intermediate and Comprehensive. Each tier provides successively-advanced processes, ranging from production of automated functional tests in the tool of the client?s choice, through to more complex rejuvenation processes like automated unit testing, coding metrics, and production of automated build and deployment scripts for advanced architectures such as SOA. Each tier can be executed independently or in subsequent stages.

"Dwindling IT resources are forcing many companies to postpone the upgrade of core IT systems and maintenance processes, which in turn is resulting in a higher total cost of ownership (TCO) for the enterprise," said Alex Adamopoulos, executive vice president, Exigen Services. "Our experience in industries like financial services, where the pace of market change is seemingly relentless, has taught us that putting processes in place to use change-ready development methods like Agile for legacy transformation is one of the best ways for a business to realize a return on their IT investments more quickly. This service offering is designed to take that expertise and make the act of legacy transformation more accessible for companies so they are better equipped for the future."

Exigen Services combines leading industry expertise in project management with innovative development methodologies and unique engagement terms to create and deliver applications that solve some of the most complex technology-driven business challenges. Exigen Services' integrated development approach to outsourcing reduces project and delivery risks and improves alignment with clients' goals to meet changing business requirements.

About Exigen Services
Exigen Services is the leading application outsourcing services provider, and combines world class skills, recognized expertise in development methodologies, and industry experience to reduce risks, lower costs and deliver results. Exigen Services has pioneered a new approach to global application outsourcing, Outsourcing 2.0, that includes commercial terms that optimize financial alignment between client and vendor. As a result, Exigen Services makes IT outsourcing a much easier and more beneficial undertaking for global enterprises. Since 2000, Exigen Services has been the global leader in the use of distributed Agile methods for rapid and precise systems development throughout the banking/insurance/brokerage, health care, telecommunications, government and media industries. Clients range from Fortune 500 organizations to mid-sized growth companies including Sun Microsystems, CSC, Universal Music Group, Standard & Poor's, T-Mobile, AXA, Westpac Bank and many others.

Exigen Services has achieved high honors in a variety of independent lists and rankings, including the #1 ranking for software testing and quality assurance services in outsourcing in the 2008 Brown & Wilson Black Book of Outsourcing. The company is a member of the 2009 Global Services 100, and is a top 10 provider of both outsourced product development and human capital development. Exigen Services is considered one of the top 100 IT services companies in America according to Inc Magazine’s 2008 Inc5000.

For more information, contact Cheryl Gale, Eric Seymour at: (617) 960-9836, (617) 960-9856 or at: exigen@marchpr.com