- user security massively increased (they need hardware tokens)

- user management is now part of a globalized management system where control access are much stricter than (let's call the dev to add somebody)

- it is muuuch easier to find new Java devs; development is now shared between the company (for business knowledge) and another company for the development, diminishing the train factor by a huge amount.

- code has been modernized and so is much more easy to audit

- SQL database can be queried by armies of cheap data analysis tools

- some of the consultants have now much less power to negotiate their salary (less than they were only 3 managing the application :-) )

That were for the positives. Negattives:

- Java UI needs much more time to get polished or much better dev's.

- Security is now much more administrative. Gone the days of the quick fix in production.

- hardware token for security is not vey well handled, incurring a heavy toll on data access (a limitation of our security token, which was unfortunately not seen during project planning)

- we had to reproduce all the TUI shortcuts for people to stay productive. Yes, you read that correctly :-)