Recent advances in Web and Internet technologies have provided many new capabilities in the development
environments, application architectures, and capabilities that the user-organization can now leverage to its
advantage. Several of these new capabilities can provide features that streamline site navigation, enhance
security, improve interoperatability, and speed response times. New capabilities can reduce costs by simplifying
maintenance, limiting the need for programmer intervention, and reducing the cost of ownership over time. The
cumulative impact of these new capabilities can extend the economic life of an application that utilizes them.
Many clients have found that the growth of their organization has caused them to consider moving away from the
static website and into an environment that takes advantage of a robust Internet or Intranet based application.
As they consider this change, it is apparent that the new environment should be established in a manner that
leverages these new capabilities to the maximum advantage.
Marathon consultants have performed dozens of technology migrations over a period of several years. Many of these
involved highly complex Web applications with numerous databases.
