Maintain Enterprise Applications
Business Benefits
Boost the agility and efficiency of global application sustaining activities
Your operations must adapt quickly to support new business strategies and tactics. This requires the ability to realign the enterprise applications that automate and govern your operations through effective application maintenance. But when your organization lacks insight into its business processes and the enterprise applications that automate them, this flexibility is impaired.
Relativity Technologies can help. Our Modernization Workbench® software platform enables managers to prioritize and formulate change requests to realign applications. Development professionals can further leverage the Modernization Workbench to speed their execution and testing of the identified changes. Studies have demonstrated overall efficiency gains of up to 20% in a maintenance environment via the Modernization Workbench.
With the Modernization Workbench you can:
Identify Maintenance Priorities via Misalignments
The ability to prioritize maintenance activities depends on insight into where software diverges from business goals like efficiency, risk, flexibility, and security. The Modernization Workbench offers customizable metrics dashboards that allow managers to identify where misalignments exist. For instance, with automated function point analysis. This IT governance / Application Portfolio Management component ensures that applications are operating in line with corporate priorities. And when they are not, application remediations can be prioritized.
Plan for Improvement to Business Processes
Overlaying complexity information with insight into business logic provides another way for managers to focus the effort of their team. If a process automates a core business activity, such as claims processing, and it is flagged as unhealthy, then it should be targeted for maintenance work. The Modernization Workbench enables this through its ability to mine and model business logic from legacy enterprise applications.
Create Better Change Requests
Modifications to enterprise applications are only as good as the specifications that define them. And the creation of these specifications can be undermined by incomplete or outdated documentation of the application portfolio. The Modernization Workbench overcomes this challenge through its repository of detailed, always current application understanding. Outsourced or geographically distributed offices can remotely access reports, visualizations, and other insights that allow for the intelligent development of new change requests.
Efficiently Execute Change Requests
Once a change request has been transmitted, it is up to development professionals to speed its execution. The Modernization Workbench offers multiple analysis capabilities to accelerate this stage. For instance, developers can rely on rich diagrams, a querying engine, and synchronized views into application code to determine how modifications must be executed. Impact analysis supplements this work by allowing users to address affected elements before there are unintended results. In fact, customer-led ROI studies have revealed a 50% reduction for large change requests via the Modernization Workbench.
Test More Efficiently
As development professionals move towards implementing requested changes, they must test to ensure there are no unintended outcomes. The Modernization Workbench's rich analysis capabilities highlight the paths that would be affected. Users can even 'autopilot' along these paths to better understand the ripple effect of the request. This accelerates the ability of a user to develop complete test cases to embrace the proposed change.
Perform Continuous Improvement Activities
In addition to changes to an application to reflect new operational requirements, there are also enhancements that can improve the efficiency of the application itself. Building on the metrics and querying capability of the Modernization Workbench, users can uncover dead, inefficient, and non-standard code that clogs enterprise applications. The rich analysis offered by the Modernization Workbench allows users to formulate plans to eliminate these problems.
Alternatively, the patented componentization capabilities of the Application Architect module can extract these inefficiencies directly from the code base. The result is a more efficient and adaptable application portfolio. More advanced legacy application modernization activities can be also prioritized.
