Enterprise Application Knowledgebase
Business Benefits
Centralized, always-current business and technical insight into the application portfolio.
The Modernization Workbench® generates a wealth of business and technical knowledge about complex, diverse application portfolios. These insights are populated into the Modernization Workbench's repository, the Enterprise Application Knowledgebase. This knowledgebase provides centralized, always-current information that can be leveraged to execute the entire Enterprise Application Modernization lifecycle.
The Modernization Workbench's array of modules leverage and add to the information stored in the knowledgebase to accelerate application modernization and application maintenance activities. And through the Enterprise Application Modernization Framework, third-party technologies can integrate with and leverage the Modernization Workbench.
Centralized Insight Across Diverse Environments
The legacy application portfolios of most organizations contain a wide variety of languages and environments. To manage and understand these many systems used to require multiple tools and processes that drained time and resources. However, the flexibility of the knowledgebase and its adherence to OMG standards enables users to understand, manage, modernize, and maintain diverse applications.
Users can gain control of software developed in Cobol, PL/I, Natural, Visual Basic, C/C++, Java, and numerous other languages. Through the Modernization Workbench platform, even third-party parsers can be integrated to include their output in the Enterprise Application Knowledgebase.
Technical and Business Insight as Infrastructure
The knowledgebase's support for industry standards allows third-party technologies to integrate with and leverage the Modernization Workbench. Business and technical insight about the application portfolio can be leveraged by other IT governance technologies and development environments. This helps to quickly identify and correct misalignments between business priorities and the reality of the application portfolio.
Insights from other technologies, like source code management, requirements management, etc., can be imported into the Modernization Workbench's knowledgebase. This permits information such as change frequency, bug counts, cost data, and other information to be associated with your applications. This permits rich governance capabilities by associating business and technical data about software assets with overarching business contexts like business process, geography, or business challenge.
Collaborative Governance and Development for Global Teams
The Modernization Workbench enables users to create filters, queries, policies and other intellectual property that aids in understanding and governing complex software portfolios. Users can create these business and technical perspectives using user-friendly, built-in wizards and querying engines.
Globally distributed teams can access and reuse this intellectual property, ensuring that users around the world can share views of their software assets. This can dramatically reduce the challenge of knowledge transfer between teams and avoid miscommunications.
Support for the Entire Application Modernization Lifecycle
The knowledgebase can be readily harnessed throughout the Enterprise Application Modernization lifecycle. For instance, insights generated during an application understanding initiative can be leveraged for generating application portfolio management decisions, delivering legacy application modernization projects, or executing application maintenance activities.
