Cost and Complexity Reduction
Business Benefits
Enhance the efficiency and maintainability of your enterprise applications.
A leading analyst firm estimated that 60-80% of organizations' IT budgets are consumed by ongoing maintenance activities. This drain stems from the complexity of existing applications, the lack of current documentation, and other issues increase the cost and challenge of maintaining the application code. The result, however, is the same: resources that could have been deployed to add new functionality are instead directed to address daily maintenance issues. Organizations need business intelligence for their applications.
Beyond cost, application complexity can lead to other challenges for your organization. Inefficient, non-standard, and dead code increases the complexity of executing needed change requests. As a result, business processes cannot be efficiently adjusted to support emerging strategies.
Relativity Technologies can help. Our
Modernization Workbench® platform accelerates cost and complexity reduction initiatives through:
Management of the Application Portfolio Enables a Focus on Priority Issues
Too often, the process of identifying where to focus complexity reduction is based on little more than guesswork and intuition. Instead, managers can rely on the Modernization Workbench collect rich metrics and understanding that optimizes legacy application portfolio management. Industry-standard and customizable metrics reveal elements that are the most frequently changed, complex, and challenging to maintain. A convenient browser-based interface for these reports allows teams to quickly share the information and study it in detail. As a result, managers can direct their resources to focus effort on the areas in most urgent need.
Documentation and Visualizations Enhance Developer Productivity
An analyst firm recently discovered that less staff unfamiliar with an application were up to 40% less effective than their peers. When applications are frequently transitioned between teams, these costs can quickly add up. But more than costs, reduced insights into transferred applications can lead to more risky changes and increased frequency of rework due to inexperience with the targeted systems. The Modernization Workbench delivers deep, current visualizations, metrics, and other documentation regarding existing applications that address the challenge of knowledge transfer. Users can also readily browse through the transitioned applications and execute tailored queries to better understand the reality of the applications that they will manage.
Because the centralized Modernization Workbench repository can be refreshed with the latest sources, the information that users rely on for knowledge transfer remains always current across numerous programming languages. For documentation of existing systems -- an important tool for speeding knowledge transfer -- the Modernization Workbench reduced effort by 25%, while analysis activities such as impact analysis were cut by 60%.
Complexity Reduction Capabilities Streamline Enterprise Applications
With each change applications tend to become increasingly complex and costly to manage. These issues not only drain budgetary resources, they also reduce the ability of your organization to properly maintain your critical applications. The Modernization Workbench provides a powerful querying capability that allows users to uncover dead, non-standard, and inefficient coding structures. Users can rely on the Modernization Workbench to extract these inefficiencies without impacting the stability of the application.
Further, the Modernization Workbench enables the componentization and modernization of monolithic legacy applications. Business logic can be componentized into standalone elements through the platform's patented technology, enabling reuse and driving significant efficiencies.
