by webadmin | Aug 6, 2012 | Business, general, Integrated Development Environment, legacy system, recent work featured, Software Development, Software Migration, Software Modernization, system integration
If you are in business and you aim high, you’ll need software development solutions: good and fast ones to help you find the perfect way to make your business work smoothly. All managers know for sure, that a simple solution will change the way people work. A good solution will make the difference for your company productivity. We live in an era of cutting edge technology and all of us are using at least one computer at home or at work. We are permanently connected to a screen: information, databases, and projects, all our work is there, no matter the field we work in. The software development industry has become more and more powerful and creative as the needs of the clients are in continuous development. It has reached a high point, trying to accomplish all the needs from the market. Business software or management software is that software development’s area where a businessman is able to find the solution he needs for his company. Travel, tourism, distribution, construction or real estate companies can find personal business software for their needs. The purpose of these solutions is to increase the efficiency of the company, through easy use by the beneficiaries and the rapid way of getting information. It’s that part of software development that allows the company to increase the number of working stations, by an unlimited number of users. Any company can order a personal business solution, no matter the field they are working in. So, if you feel your business engine needs some more horsepower, talk to the software companies, try their offers and you will find...
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 31, 2012 | applications, general, legacy system, Software Development
What happens when a business software application fails? Human intervenes. That’s the most common reaction. This issue simulating conflicts or failures of software integration and/or automating system have been around since the early 80s. Two things can be attributed to this failure – too much reaction or intervention of humans or the lack of it. Wrong decisions or the lack of plan in the event that a series of events occur that were deemed too unlikely to come into reality often comes in strings when humans intervenes. When you look at the cause and effect of why a combination of improbable chain of proceedings add to that human interactions, you will find ways to develop application integration. At times you may require to generalize with other business integration software that will improve the operation side of your systems application. The most common overlooked in application integration software problem lies in the fact or the lack of system monitoring, log files of events and tracking matrix on every layer of the -system simply put it – documentation. The business system that we developed should be transparent to us, meaning every possible irregular occurring events should be noted and analyze corresponding reactions and its equivalent results. Doing things over and over again using various scenarios and actions until the event of failure is taken note of subjecting and planning additional parameters that will supply definitive reaction to each identified event. When you develop a business application software, put into mind that people will be using it, in fact people of various capacity and state of thinking. When you think of it...
by webadmin | Jul 25, 2012 | architecture, Integration, Legacy integration, legacy system, Software Modernization, system integration, Technology
At the turn of another decade, the IT world is witnessing yet again another seismic shift comparative to the internet boom in the 90s. Back then the demand for technological skill is at coming into a rise. Programmers, systems developers, systems analyst and database guru lures the Information technology world who are task to modernize the software system. While the internet have grown into a universal appeal for IT people, systems integration have made a lot raised eyebrows. Today we’ve seen the rise of systems integration taking over as IT has become less and less about technical skills. We have seen the key roles are now reserved and occupied for those who can easily adapt and best integrate readily available components – this maybe an existing legacy software, legacy applications and legacy systems. Legacy software migration have come into a point where systems developers are now doing or trying to find something that will hold and maximize available components from the legacy systems taking less time to deliver new solutions. We can attribute to the fact that back then sharing libraries and software development kits was a common practice. Nowadays, we tend to lean on open API’s rather than be dependent in proprietary libraries. Software development have rather become more of like building blocks, with open source programs readily available via internet. This makes almost every single systems developer rely heavily in the available resources in the internet. Anyone with an internet connection and browser can tap into every thing freely so long as they can see it in the internet. What does this trend means for the...
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...
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