ColdFusion - ASP.net migration

Investment in ColdFusion apps and web sites - planning to migrate to ASP.Net?

If you have a significant reliance on old ColdFusion web and intranet applications you may have been considering moving to .Net

These legacy ColdFusion sites will have been custom built to suit your business needs and have evolved as those needs change. Your own developers of those at your web agency may have taken different approaches to design and development. Whilst ColdFusion can be reliable and ColdFusion applications can be extremely feature rich and stable many are unreliable especially where the original developers didn’t fully understand the platform and the better methods to get the most out of ColdFusion application server.

You may be faced with issues around ColdFusion to ASP.Net Migration or simply not sure how to plan ahead when you are reliant on old and unsupported ColdFusion applications. Fusion Workshop has a track record of moving applications from ColdFusion to ASP.Net. We will be able to help and provide advice on a smart route forward.

Our approach is based on:

  1. Revisiting and confirming current business requirements and stakeholder needs
  2. Evaluation of the existing system and specifically the ColdFusion features and development methods used.
  3. Understanding where existing investment can be reused possible in a hybrid application
  4. Developing strategies for data migration and evolution
  5. Planning for a seamless transition

You might have been told that the only answer is a full re-development. This is rarely the case and there will be huge value in the database and its access mechanisms. Above all the main value is in the actual business function being fully modelled. ColdFusion applications can also interoperate with .Net and ASP.Net applications. The latter can be accomplished in a number of ways and the interim step of running a hybrid ColdFusion and ASP.Net web application is often a cost effective and quick solution.

Often the decision to go about moving from ColdFusion to ASP.Net is postponed due to perceived risks, costs and uncertainty. With our approach the majority of these issues disappear and you will end up with a fully modernised business application that has a better user experience, is a better platform for ongoing investment and will evolve further and in a more elegant but cost effective manner.

If you want to know how we would approach the modernisation of your ColdFusion applications or the migration of these ColdFusion applications to ASP.net call us now for an informal discussion with one of our experienced team.

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