Modernize Enterprise Applications
Business Benefits
Realign applications with business needs via SOA-enablement, redevelopment, and re-architecting
Over time legacy enterprise applications tend to become less responsive to business needs. Yet these applications continue to automate the very core of your operations. To simply abandon their embedded intellectual property is to lose a significant business asset. Instead, organizations must look to leverage these assets through Enterprise Application Modernization.
Relativity Technologies can help. Our Modernization Workbench® software platform enables users to accelerate the delivery of a broad range of modernization activities. Unlike niche tools that mandate one approach to modernization, the Modernization Workbench enables renovating, rearchitecting, business process modeling, SOA-enablement, redevelopment, and more. The Modernization Workbench applies legacy modernization across diverse environments: from Cobol, Natural, and RPG to Visual Basic, C/C++, and Java.
With the Modernization Workbench you can:
Renovate Legacy Enterprise Applications
As legacy enterprise applications mature they tend to become more complex as dead, non-standard, and inefficient code obscure the underlying business processes. The Modernization Workbench enables users to address this challenge by identifying where 'hotspots' lie within the application portfolio. Powerful querying capabilities further allow users to locate poor coding structures that clog existing applications.
Users can then deploy the Modernization Workbench to simplify the code base by extracting these inefficient coding structures and componentizing logic into standalone programs. The result is a more adaptable and less complex portfolio of enterprise applications.
Rearchitect Enterprise Applications
Your organization has built and refined business processes into your legacy enterprise applications over years or even decades. As a result, it is important to harness the value of these processes to ensure there are no disruptions during application modernization.
The Modernization Workbench allows users to rapidly construct models of their operations from a 'top-down' business process approach and from a 'bottom-up' business rule approach. The generated models can be readily transferred to 3rd-party modeling and business process management (BPM) technologies. As a result users can transition their existing operations forward through Architecture-Driven Modernization or into a BPM suite, for instance.
Redevelop Enterprise Applications
Redeveloping an application into a new environment can lead to cost savings and increased flexibility. However, it is important that the value of existing business processes is not lost. The Modernization Workbench enables the collection of business rules 74% faster than alternative approaches. These rules can be combined into process-level, UML-standard models. This provides organizations with a foundation for functional specifications to ensure that redevelopment reflects the reality of the business.
SOA Enable Enterprise Applications
Moving to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is increasingly viewed as an application modernization approach that can yield more flexibility for an organization. However, few existing applications were developed from an SOA viewpoint. As a result, it may be difficult to isolate business logic that would be ideal for encapsulating as a service. Further, there may be architectural hurdles that can complicate the deployment of new services.
Through its accelerated business logic identification, the Modernization Workbench allows managers to quickly locate candidate services. The patented componentization features of the Modernization Workbench then allow these threads of logic to be isolated into standalone programs that are ready to be wrapped. Further, the Modernization Workbench offers SOA-specific analysis that identifies the architectural readiness of programs. It also suggests remediations that could be implemented to overcome the identified architectural traps.
Transition Enterprise Applications
Some organizations may decide that their preferred path to legacy modernization is to transition portions of the application portfolio. This decision may be made based on value, cost, and risk metrics collected during an application portfolio management process. As a result, decisions may be made that involve retiring or outsourcing applications, or moving to a different environment. Regardless of which activity is undertaken, it is important to manage the effects.
The Modernization Workbench offers detailed insights into the targeted applications, business processes, and their touch points with other systems. This wealth of insight into existing applications ensures that the organization transitions the complete application while reducing the risk of disrupting parallel systems that depend on the target.
