Application Modernisation

Avoid dependency on increasing inflexible legacy business applications

Business face a key choice in the ongoing maintenance of their software systems, completely replace or incrementally modernise.

 

As a business develops so does its applications portfolio and new requirements bring new additions to the system. Adding in factors such as staff departures, poor documentation by the development team and of course time pressures, and the result is an increasingly complex and inflexible system allowing little operational flexibility.

Scrapping the existing system, imperfect as it is, may not be an option - the risks involved are too great, the downtime likely to be too long.

Companies are caught in a situation where the dependence on a system outweighs the cost of replacing it. The business loses its competitive advantage to a company who took advantage of new technology.

Take advantage of next generation technology while preserving legacy data

Application modernisation offers an attractive solution to businesses that face limitations with their legacy applications. Next generation technology uses automated logic discovery, and documentation in a code-free environment to ease the cost, pain and risk of leaving behind the old code base or platform. This means that whether you want to update the application, because the systems software or hardware platform that it is written for is no longer supported, or if you believe there is nothing wrong with the platform, but the application needs to modernise to make it viable for Internet front ends, this can be addressed through automated processes.

For short and long term success, next generation automation solutions need to be dynamic, flexible and able to be deployed easily and quickly amongst the broadest possible user-base.

Traditionally, software test automation tools concentrate on testing only what the eye can see. Looking for defects in only one area is an unacceptable compromise. We take a more holistic approach that embraces this visual layer but is equally rigorous in examining the underlying activity in the database.

On the i Series, System i, SQL or Oracle server, TestBench is our solution that uniquely addresses the validation of all database effects and the creation of cut down, representative test data to reduce test times and data footprints. Data confidentiality is addressed and the unique user-managed data roll-back capability reduces environment downtime, improving testing productivity and accuracy.

By incrementally modernising, the costs, risks and downtime of completely replacing the existing system are eliminated. The system is at once documented and tested, so that the process can be undertaken with full confidence.

It’s no wonder that so many businesses are taking the application modernisation route!

To learn more about application modernisation through next generation technology, get in touch with us today and learn more about our Technology Partnership with Desynit www.desynit.com, the application modernisation IT Consultants.