Our company, AssetPoint, develops, sells, and supports a software product, TabWare, an EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) software package that is developed with PowerBuilder. The mandate from our new ownership in the spring of 2008 was to release a web-architected version of our application by year end (2008!). We had been having trouble competing in the marketplace without a web application for at least two years prior to that, and the issue had finally reached the boiling point. With such an aggressive year-end deadline and a limited budget, a re-write was out of the question. With a re-write as a known non-option, we approached this initiative with this four-step process…

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