The BRIDGE: A Toolkit Approach to Reverse Engineering System Metadata in Support of Migration to Enterprise Software

摘要

The role of reverse engineering system metadata when migrating legacy systems to enterprise software such as PeopleSoft~(TM) has not been widely articulated. Bridging the gap between new enterprisewide software systems and legacy systems has proven to be an enormous and costly hurdle when attempted without sufficient understanding of the legacy environment and enterprise metadata. We present a model-based methodology for constructing a metadata-based foundation for migrating data from legacy systems to enterprise software. The methodology components include: centre dot analysis of project organization, constraints and definition, centre dot development of project control structure, and centre dot deployment of toolkit components to capture, analyze and utilize metadata.