Phased Migration Framework For Legacy-To-Cloud Transformation In Multi-Billion Dollar B2B E-Commerce: A Risk-Mitigation Architecture For Continuous Revenue Operations

Abstract

Enterprise B2B e-commerce platforms feel immense pressure to transform while continuing to generate revenue streams. The conventional migration method poses unacceptable business risk to organizations handling daily transactions. This article presents a method for transforming a legacy system to the cloud without compromising revenue-generating capabilities. The method suggests smart ways to manage data movement between the old system and the new system, keeping everything in sync based on events, checking the old and new systems against each other to ensure they match, and carefully shutting down the old system to prevent any problems. Results of validation tests on different Fortune 500 implementations, ranging from HVAC product distribution to automotive sales, pharmaceutical product distribution, and food services, have confirmed that there are no revenue-generating outages throughout the migration periods. The process ensures performance improvements such as improved order processing, decreased errors, and enhanced handling capacity. Three new architectural patterns focus on transactional integrity at system boundaries through empirical techniques as per the production traffic, or decomposing microservice-based data.