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Corticon Legacy Application Modernization Solution
Software applications are a critical part of running any business. But for many organizations their applications have become brittle. The business logic in the applications that are meant to implement the organization's business strategy is no longer understood [transparent] and has become difficult and expensive to maintain. In fact, for many organizations their legacy applications now limit their ability to compete and cost effectively drive their business.
Corticon is the leading vendor of model-driven business rules solutions. Business rules are the modern and agile way to implement an organization's business logic. Organizations need a cost effective and proven mechanism to understand the logic in their legacy applications and often to transform this important business logic to a modern, agile form; utilizing a Business Rules Management System.
Corticon's Legacy Application Modernization solution does just that. Through an efficient tools-driven process, Corticon's Legacy Modernization solution delivers real understanding and cost effective transformation of an organization's critical business logic. Transformation into business rules models which become a reliable form of documentation driven by Corticon's unique model-driven approach. And because Corticon's business rules models are fully executable services; this important business logic can be integrated into a modern, service-oriented architecture driven by Corticon's Business Rules Server.
Business Drivers: Why Organizations are Seeking a Solution
Legacy applications present a number of challenges for organizations. Key are:
Agility |
Because changing business logic in legacy code to reflect changes in the business environment can take weeks, months or sometimes longer. |
Cost |
Legacy applications involve high infrastructure costs and high employee costs; costs associated with maintaining high cost IT infrastructure such as mainframes to costs associated with expensive application maintenance and testing. |
Transparency & Compliance |
Given complexity and lack of real transparency, legacy code is often not fully understood. This creates significant compliance issues ranging from compliance with internal policies, to more broadly reaching issues associated with regulatory Compliance. |
Solution Sought: What Organizations are Looking to Achieve
Understanding - Organizations first seek to understand what is actually happening within their legacy applications. What those applications do and under what circumstances. To in-fact create a reliable form of documentation where none actually exists within the application itself. This understanding is useful across a range of needs; from helping the IT staff in better changing or maintaining the legacy applications, to using the understanding as a basis to plan and execute transformation of the legacy application.
Modernization - Organizations are looking to modernize their legacy application into a more agile, maintainable and cost effective form. Sometimes this means wrapping the functions within the legacy application and exposing them as web-services. But for many organizations it means transforming their legacy application into a modern SOA based application; with their business logic transformed into externalized business rules.
The Answer: Corticon's Legacy Application Mining and Modernization Solution
Corticon's Legacy Application Mining and Modernization solution is a repeatable, tools-driven process that provides immediate transparency into any legacy code. The solution includes:
- Characterization - Capable of working with more than 100 languages, Characterization analyzes the application as it exists today.
- Knowledge Mining and Modeling - Reverse-engineers the legacy code to generate a detailed view of the application, including process maps, flowcharts, data models and embedded business rules. The next step is the transformation of the application data model and business rules into Corticon business rules models which can be easily understood, tested and executed.
- Modernization - Represents a range of uses of the rules models; from using them to help existing development staff better maintain existing code, to utilizing the fully executable models in redeveloped SOA based applications.
Next Steps
It's time to explore these benefits of Corticon's Legacy Modernization solution. Give us a chance to explain this very cost effective solution to you directly by contacting us.
