by webadmin | Oct 4, 2012 | general, legacy modernization, SOA, Software Development
Have you ever watched some of those live-drama, police operation documentaries or films back in the 1980’s, 1990’s and early 2000, where in a scene you find a cop tagging the owner of a vehicle and identifying a criminal merely by punching an ID on a hand-held unit or a small computer system mounted in the police car? Back then, it may have seemed like a leap in technological prowess for the law enforcement agencies. The shocking truth, however, is that the system that facilitated the flow of information from State Law Enforcement offices to the police units in the field was probably dependent on aging programs that were developed decades earlier. Before choosing to modernize these aging systems, police and military agencies kept different records (both paper and digital) for known offenders, convicted felons, including data on juveniles and those on parole. Eventually the systems give rise to a potential risk that, if left unchecked and mishandled, questions are raised concerning the accuracy and the duplication of unorganized data, questions that could ultimately affect civilian security activities and public safety, in the long run. The solution - modernize those legacy systems. Today, some of these obsolete or legacy systems integration have been given an overhaul, and have been modernized for more robust integration with other state agency information systems, which includes the correlation of data from prison institutions, parole and even the justice department and courts systems, as well as revenue systems and social services; all-in-all to offer a faster, more accessible, and more accurate sharing of information for police units, to better serve and protect the public....
by webadmin | Aug 3, 2012 | applications, Code Generation, general, legacy modernization, legacy system, main, Micro Focus, recent work featured, Software Development, Software Migration, Software Modernization, system integration
What is Micro Focus Cobol? According to Wikipedia COBOL is one of the most ancient programming languages. Its name comes from the words COmmon Business-Oriented Language, a definition for its main use in finance and other businesses, as well as in systems of administration for governments and companies. Its date of birth is18th of September 1959. A bit of history of Cobol In the second part of that year, a team consisting of several researchers coming from different sectors of the private industry but also from the government and educational departments got together with the purpose of creating a different technical approach to a common business language. 3 government agencies joined the battle, among which there was also the US Air Force . There were 6 computers manufactures, users, on one hand, and the University of Pennsylvania Computing Center on the other hand. A year later, the first compilers for COBOL were implemented on two different computers, demonstrating that compatibility is possible. And that was only the beginning. Today, after 40 years, Cobol is a programming the language dedicated to stable applications for businesses, while MF Cobol is the power engine behind the modern Cobol. The engineers continued to move forward to meet users’ demands. They were there when tools such as Visual Cobol was born, so that Cobol applications is able to run on JVM, Linux or Windows. MF Cobol in Business Micro focus COBOL has been the dominant programming language in the business domain. Around the year 2000, the company estimated that there were about 300 billion lines of computer code in use in the world and...
by webadmin | Aug 1, 2012 | Legacy integration, legacy modernization, legacy system, Software Modernization, system integration
Legacy modernization – What? Legacy modernization is a constant attempt for companies to improve their services and to provide the quickest access to information. Organizations are challenged to cope with new applications and to constantly adapt their legacy software to keep up with the latest trends on the business field. The purpose is to improve customer service and compete with the same enterprises. Basically, a legacy application is a software application that uses older programming languages. They may run on any platform, use any language and they can be in use for several years. Legacy modernization is a software update that combines the strength of the past applications, reused up to a point, with the cutting edge technologies available today, modern software architectures. Legacy modernization – When? A modern company should be constantly updating to all the changes in the business field and should be able to modify the application it buys without major problems. And a responsible manager should ask for a five year prediction on the impact that business trends and technology could have. When legacy modernization is needed, a company must evaluate its resources, meaning the applications it already has, establishing their value and their possibilities of merging with newer ones. The main issue is the balance between maintaining the old applications already paid for and investing in new up to date business opportunities. The options are quite simple, leaving things as they are without spending, or on the contrary remove them all and replace them, or, best of all, integrating new technology. There are a few factors an enterprise must consider in order to make...
by webadmin | Jul 10, 2012 | Legacy integration, legacy modernization, legacy system, Software Development, Software Migration, Software Modernization, system integration
If you were to look at the number of new businesses that emerge every month – especially web based enterprises then you would be right to assume that starting a business is not so hard. Given the type of business integration software available today, you can set up your business in a week and with the right strategy be profitable in a month. This ease with which such feats are possible today is not to be taken for granted though; it was definitely not the ‘norm’ just ten years ago. The technological dark ages, as they were made it infinitely harder to get things done. Not to say that the tasks we hardly pay attention to today were extremely hard, it was simply harder and took much longer to start up and make profits. With everything having to be done manually or (if you were the lucky sort) with the aid of legacy applications software, efficiency as well as accuracy were often compromised. The turn of the century though and rapid developments in technology brought with them a set of business integration software applications that could be used to perform repetitive tasks and thus halve the amount of time and energy the manager had to spend on them. Thus leaving the manager with ample time and resources, to focus on strategies and growth tactics aimed at making the business more profitable. When starting up a business there are a lot of things to take into account. While most people simply focus on licensing, financing and the final product, it is also imperative to consider aspects such as the business...
by webadmin | Jul 5, 2012 | applications, Business, Integration, legacy modernization, legacy system, main, Software Development, Software Modernization, system integration
One of the most common dilemmas a company faces today centers around how to deal with legacy applications. Many existing companies had their IT systems set up using legacy applications that have become obsolete in the wake of technological development. In light of a changing business atmosphere that incorporates technology into nearly almost every process, companies are beginning to face up to the fact that an upgrade might be a necessity as opposed to a luxury. Upgrading legacy applications however is neither a simple nor a cheap process. The main problem is the fact that the structure of legacy systems does not integrate well with existing technology platforms. While a complete system overhaul is a possibility it remains an unrealistic one. The fact is that legacy systems integration, though outdated, are very stable platforms that support most of a company’s business processes. This is why most companies have opted for a solution which involves applications integration. Enterprise applications integration has proven to be the most advantageous legacy integration method for commercial businesses. This is because business enterprise systems are made up of a host of different system applications that work in tandem to perform various processes. An entire system would for instance consist of applications fro supply chain management, customer relationship management software, payroll software and of course legacy applications based business logic software. For these systems to work in tandem applications integration is a necessity. The main benefits of applications integration are: Data integration – In a system that is as varied as a business enterprise system, it is important that data flows freely between all involved applications....
by webadmin | Jun 21, 2012 | COTS, general, Legacy integration, legacy modernization, legacy system, main, SOA, Software Development
The most important technique to be followed in any business is the tracking system, which details records of the customers. There is no doubt that every business requires the use of various components for running their business successfully. With the immense advancement in technology, software plays a crucial role in deciding the fate of many businesses. Software integration is where the different types of computing systems and software applications are linked together. Through usage of this software integration, the process occurs either physically or through the function in which they are involved. A variety of systems are involved in software integration and it brings together the use of different systems into a common place. The code generation is one of the important functions in software integration as it utilizes a set of rules for the generation of the source code. As the demand by the software increases, the code generator seems to be more appropriate. To increase the speed of the code generator, it is advisable to combine a unique traditional structure or framework with it. The Commercially available Off-the Shelf (COTS) products are much versed in the technological world, as they can be installed quickly. They are available for both software and hardware products and once installed, they quickly interoperate with the pre-existing components of the system. A majority of software products purchased by a standard network user falls into the COTS category. They are reasonable in price, which is considered as the major advantage of this product. The term Service Oriented Architecture or SOA is nothing but the computer methodology which doesn’t belong to...
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