by webadmin | May 30, 2013 | general, J Developer, legacy modernization, legacy system, recent work featured, Software Development, Software Migration, Software Modernization
This is the land of development of a software product , meaning the activity of computer programming, the process of writing and maintaining a source code. Software development includes research, prototyping, modification, re-engineering, maintenance and all the others activities that result in software products. Software is developed for a variety of purposes: to meet that need of companies for their development or to meet the needs of individuals. The development of software is the primary factor in development of informational technologies. And behind the “scenes”, there are the IT brains. You have probably met one along the way, it’s that person who seems to know exactly what words like AIX, COBOL, MAINFRAME mean, words that for most of us do not ring any bells. For them, there is an universe of possibilities out there. This can do that, with this I can make this work, and so on. Try to listen to a conversation between two programmers and you’ll think they speak different English. And they are! To be smart is good, but to be brilliant is a must in this field. The development of programming languages and the creation of universal programming tools made software development become easier to use and closer to the user. And all thanks to those brilliant brains that speak different English. They know how to generate a solution for our needs, and for that , their nights are whiter than ours. Years of learning and special trainings are now beginning to pay off. IT programmers are among the best paid workers in the world. And you cannot be surprised, the software development industry...
by webadmin | May 24, 2013 | applications, contractors, general, JAVA, Legacy integration, legacy modernization, legacy system, main, system integration
It has become common to have applications integration. The increasing availability of the standards, as well as tools alongside with the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), shows many signs of much simpler database and system integration than before. Presently, there are two approaches that are used for this, which have become very popular and they are the following: Point-to-Point integration In this type of applications integration, there is a direct link created between the applications, with the help of a direct application program interface link, batch interface or simply file transfer protocol. The translation or the transformation of the information may happen due to the data getting transferred via the link. This kind of interface is normally implemented without taking any help from an integration product, with translation of the information occurring with the help of code at the point of integration at just one or both the ends of the interface. Service Bus Integration This form of applications integration will use the technological solution that a bus can provide. When this is done, the applications would be able to place the required messages between the bus and the applications. The bus would be able manage the translation of the message formats from in between the applications. Many organizations have worked towards creating a wide range of services that will be available online. That creates the goal of putting the product lines together in a group as well as look towards streamlining all the call center experiences. It will yield the need of an increase in the back end systems. It is considered normal for call...
by webadmin | May 22, 2013 | Legacy integration, legacy modernization, legacy system, Software Development, Software Modernization, system integration
It’s very important to learn how to progress from your file robot technology to a far more dynamic information processing technology in the fastest and cheapest way possible. Legacy modernization providers will also agree to help increase the advancement to a far more flexible technology such as for example xPression. This may assist in utilizing your present method ventures as you try to transfer to xPression. The alteration tools for moving to xPression from the variety of legacy systems are shown below: *Documerge *Mosaic and Calligo *Electronic Forms Systems (EFS) *Homegrown/internal systems It doesn’t matter if you are migrating from markup formats or from digital writing formats, realizing your target format’s demands beforehand, planning how you’ll publish your paperwork and developing thorough requirements that are precisely adopted will give you a better chance to change them in a far more automated manner. If this is not possible, you will need to apply some effort to verify the outcomes of your automatic conversion and to resolve these problems that weren’t managed correctly by the conversion. The Significance of Migration Depending on your situation, your company may have numerous advantages within a legacy migration. Generally, as you search for solutions, the company you’ll search for must be a partner that’s ready in moving data and programs firmly and safely. This person must certainly be expert at working with both target environment and current technology. He needs to use a very high CMMI level to make certain that the strategy and processes and he needs provide an answer with enough paperwork to assure continuous operation in this sort of legacy modernization. Modernizing a Legacy Software Legacy software modernization enables companies to enjoy the advantages of new growth with no cost and risk of changing their legacy systems. These are the benefits of the legacy modernization: *Mainframe system costs are reduced *Legacy business rules are preserved *Network of engineering resources are enhanced which removes dependencies on ‘winner‘ legacy resources *New engineering is leveraged with no need to begin from scratch *Use and value of existing IT assets are increased *Performance and stability are enhanced *Strategic edge is achieved Just about all companies nowadays are somewhat using some legacy applications such as applications that are predicated on older systems and equipment including mainframes. Because of the years passed, companies have considerably invested large amounts of their sources raising the expense of these legacy applications. Because of the difficulty and extremely designed profile of legacy applications, companies weren’t in a position to understand the actual potential of important company intelligence that legacy...
by webadmin | May 20, 2013 | legacy modernization, legacy system, SOA, Software Development, Software Modernization, system integration
Improved flexibility is given by legacy modernization solution by migrating and modernizing architectures, legacy systems and processes. The cost of running a business is somewhat diminished and this may also assist in promoting growth.All the critical the different parts of the world’s data are within mainframes that are accessed using COBOL systems. Company purposes that are situated in mainframes usually face difficulties that include:*High maintenance and expensive improving history techniques*Running business-critical applications on probably unsupported hardware and pc software is risky*Closed architectures which are also adamant hampers web-enabling and incorporation using modern platforms*Coupled companies are limited stopping adaptation to changing business requirements*Longer time-to-market due to advanced development lifecycles and unavailability of production tools*Issues on demographic due to shrinking labor pool expertise on legacy systems*SLA time is higher for buyers as a result of non-real-time structure choices such as order programs Comprehension the SystemsA legacy system is an old engineering, process, and software software or computer system. It may or may perhaps not stay static in use. It’ll however affect a company even when it stops using a legacy system the same as in legacy modernization due to its historical position. Data from the annals is perhaps not converted into the new system format so it can still exist in the new system using a tailored schema crosswalk or it can only escalation in a data warehouse.Business System Planning is really a technique employed for studying, interpreting, and designing data structure of businesses. An example is just a School Management System, a software allowing educational facilities to handle their entire organization using the web, anytime and anywhere on earth. It...
by webadmin | Oct 12, 2012 | Code Generation, general, JAVA, legacy modernization
Because we write a lot of code very quickly, sometimes people conclude that Java code generation is responsible for the speed we achieve. And, in a way they’re right, although often people have in mind the old style code generators of the 70’s when they say that. This is not your father’s code generator. When we built our technology, we knew there are two things people hate about code generators: first, they write low quality code. The code is not commented and it usually makes use of proprietary function calls. Worse, the organization of the code is such that if you modify it, you will probably lose your changes when the code is regenerated. There is no mechanism to allow you to safely put your custom code into the generated application. Second, the old style generators are inflexible — they will write the code the way they want to do it, not the way you would do it yourself. You can’t modify the generator program, and you can’t get access to the “stock” code it might be using to produce your particular application. If you can live with the results, fine; but if not, you’re stuck. In our first Java code generation solution, we solved those problems, and today that same core technology powers both our Java and .NET offerings. In fact, ResQSoft® Engineer was originally built as a new development tool, and it can be used to develop a new system from scratch, or to modernize an old system where the source code has been lost. It can even be used to create a replacement for that old...
by webadmin | Oct 10, 2012 | architecture, contractors, legacy modernization, silos
Let’s suppose that you have a large system you’d like to redo for the web. You could get it translated, but you don’t want the likely performance and maintainability problems associated with wholesale line-by-line translation. In fact, you don’t even want the new system to look like the old one: you want slick graphics, customized and stylish menus, drop downs, radio buttons… the works. In other words, you want to rewrite it. If the system is big, you might at first consider giving it to a big integrator to redo. The first problem with that approach is that nobody has 80 highly productive developers just sitting there waiting to start your legacy modernization project. Firms may have a few, but not enough good ones. Another approach is to divide the work and give it to 3 or 4 or 5 firms. Not a bad idea, because they will compete, and you won’t have the “entrenched contractor” problem that we hear so much about. There’s only one difficulty: how do you get them to write the code in a consistent style, so that it all fits together and looks like one team wrote it? Because if not, you will get 3 or 4 or 5 “silo” implementations, with the interoperability and maintenance problems that go along with it. You can’t solve this problem with a paper architecture, but you can solve it by implementing an architecture for the entire system and directing the contractors to use common code and put their unique business logic on one place. That’s what ResQSoft(r) Engineer gives you — you can have all the routine...
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