Imagine…… you’re considering replacement or modernization… your Legacy systems are fully documented and all important business rules are exposed, annotated in clear English and available as baseline requirements… you used COMPOSER ADVANTAGE!
The legacy application modernization and maintenance experts!
Gartner defines a legacy application as “an information system that may be based on outdated technologies, but is critical to day-to-day operations.” Thousands of legacy applications continue to run mission-critical data applications. Each day, fewer resources are available that know how to update and maintain them. IT needs to preserve knowledge, reduce costs and modernize. But how?
Legacy Application Modernization Project
With national failure rates for system modernization or replacement projects greater than 50%, the selection of the right “Go Forward” application strategy is a critical decision. Factors such as organizational culture, knowledge of existing applications, availability of technical expertise, risk appetite, budget and many, many more factors impact how each organization approaches modernization. The time, cost and risk of system modernization, regardless of approach, will be significantly decreased if your organization has access to understandable application knowledge and truly knows all that your legacy system does.
By using Composer Advantage, an organization initiates a modernization project with the legacy application’s knowledge extracted, analyzed, and formatted in an easily to use repository. Advantage further abstracts the program logic and business rule source code which is then visually displayed in multiple diagrams, flowcharts and decision tables to maximize the understanding by the modernization team executives, business analysts, technical analysts and non legacy-language programmers.
Legacy Application Maintenance Program
In addition to supporting the legacy system modernization project, IT remains under tremendous pressure to implement a maintenance program that ensures:
Implementing a cost effective maintenance program that achieves these objectives will be significantly more successful with access to understandable legacy application knowledge. By using Composer Advantage, the IT department’s business analysts, technical analysts and non legacy-language programmers have direct access to understandable legacy application knowledge eliminating the inefficiency of waiting to speak with the legacy language programmer.
With Advantage, the IT team has access to legacy system knowledge which provides better answers for business questions, better time estimates, more implemented User change requests and lower overall application maintenance and modernization risk.