CA's Legacy Renewal Solution, says the company, combines the expertise of CA Technology Services with the power of CA's AllFusion Gen model-based development tool "to help organizations migrate COBOL-based legacy applications to new platforms and application architectures, while maintaining their business rules and requirements."
According to Tactical Strategy Group, 75% of the world's business data is still processed in COBOL, so a major challenge for IT organizations is to retain and extend the value of these legacy investments through migration to modern environments.
"IT organizations want to minimize cost and risk when migrating their COBOL applications, while ensuring that the newly converted applications provide optimum functionality and take full advantage of today's web-based architectures," said Una O'Neill, senior vice president, CA Technology Services. "CA's Legacy Renewal Solution uniquely leverages our industry-leading technology and a proven delivery methodology to effectively fulfill these requirements."
CA's Legacy Renewal Solution captures code-based business rules and stores them separately from any specific implementation technology. It automatically extracts the rules and data into CA's AllFusion Gen, which generates 100 percent of the new code from diagrams that mirror the customer's business requirements. Converted business rules can be easily augmented and enhanced to support an organization's current business practices.
The ability to extract business processes from legacy systems, document them within a model-driven environment, and forward engineer them into new applications helps organizations meet process com pliancy requirements associated with legislated standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.
A model-driven approach to application modernization provides significant benefits over hand-coding because the modernized solutions are technology- and platform-independent, meaning they can be deployed as mainframe, UNIX and/or Windows systems and J2EE, .NET and/or Web architectures without rewriting any code.
