Depending on scope and effort, as determined by the assessment, there may be little benefit in spending significant time and resources to upgrade and migrate to WebFOCUS Version 8 simply to replicate WebFOCUS Version 7. WebFOCUS Version 8 has some exciting features that simplify development and provide additional security. You would want to take advantage of these, but at the same time not lose on investments made in WebFOCUS Version 7. Even if you are constrained by time and resources and unable to immediately leverage WebFOCUS Version 8 functionality for migrated applications, you can still perform an evaluation to:
For example, the use of RESTful web services as opposed to SOAP-based (legacy) web services. For more information, see the WebFOCUS RESTful Web Services Developer’s Guide.
An in-depth evaluation using the guidelines above will help you identify which applications are a good fit for migrating to WebFOCUS Version 8 and the time, resources, and cost to do so. You can:
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