Application Modernisation

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Application Modernisation Relativity Workbench
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Business Drivers

• Are your business and technology strategies
  aligned to be responsive to business challenges
  over the next 3-5 years?
• Will you be expanding your business strategies
  that drive the externalization of your legacy
  applications to include more users?
• Do you need to make your legacy applications more
  adaptable to change?
• Do you have an immediate business need involving
  your legacy applications?
• Does your IT department spend 60-80 of its time
  maintaining legacy applications?
• Does your IT department have a backlog of
  important business requirements to satisfy?

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Modernisation Process
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Relativity Modernization Workbench
The Modernization Workbench drives down the cost
and accelerates the modernization, management,
and maintenance of business-critical enterprise
applications
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Define Application Scope
INVENTORY

• Identify missing elements
• Remove obsolete elements
• Orphan analysis

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Application Knowledgebase and Repository
Multi Environment Repository

• Multiple environments can be simultaneously
  accessed by users
• 3rd party parsers are efficiently integrated
• Assembler
• RPG
• Others

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Modernization

• Isolation of IO and GUI Layers within complex
  applications
• Modularisation of Transactional code for API
  enablement
• EAI configuration for sub-system replacement
• Migration of Cobol modules to Java

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Application Analysis

• Define Application Scope
• Decide on application boundaries
• Identify Missing Application Elements
• Removal of obsolete programs
• Recover Application Technical Documentation
• Identify and Isolate High Code Complexity and
  Defective Code
• Data Access (CRUD)
• Application Interfaces
• Locate and isolate application functions

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Recover Technical Documentation
Cross-reference Reports
Executive Report (shows code defects)
CRUD Report
Complexity Reports
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Recover Technical Documentation
Diagramming tool and Previews
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Discovery of Business Rules / Controls
Automated and assisted functionality allow
analysts to rapidly uncover business rules /
internal controls buried within application code
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Methods of Componentisation
Structural
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Methods of Componentisation
Computational
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Methods of Componentisation
Domain
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