Migration is a process to recover and protect this investment, transferring the functionality, data, communications, or other key parts of the application system to a new technical infrastructure. However, migration must be considered in the broadest sense, tied to change in the business and technological domains, each with its own set of unique influences and objectives.

Initiate the Migration Program: Establish the IT Vision. These activities establish where the enterprise is going and how IT will help the enterprise obtain its objectives. This correlates with the contextual view for the enterprise technical architecture.

Characterize the Existing Baseline. These activities develop an initial summary as-is model of the enterprise by elaborating the conceptual framework cells in sufficient detail to account for the current use of information technology by the business. The emphasis is on building an inventory of the existing IT and analyzing how well it supports the current business.

Define the Technical Architecture. These activities establish the blueprint for the enterprise's use of IT.  This guides the development and maintenance of the technical platforms and the applications they support.

Establish the Enterprise Transition Strategy. These activities formulate the enterprise-wide plans to move the enterprise from its current state to the vision. Because an ambitions vision may not be achievable in one deployment, multiple, intermediate plateaus will be defined to build capability toward the vision.

Fabricate the New Systems. Projects are defined to fabricate the Information System (IS) to implement the business processes within the context established by the technical architecture. This includes selecting and integrating products to realize the technical architecture.

Deploy the New Systems. These activities transition the AIS (or part) from the development environment to the operational environment. These activities coordinate the change in the business and other systems with which the new AIS interoperate.

Operate and Evolve the Systems. These activities represent the use of the IS and its continual adaptation to changes in the environment while simultaneous.

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