You are invited to a FREE half-day seminar on the Modernisation of Legacy COBOL Applications
in London Hilton - Park Lane, 8th and 15th January 2007.
Most IT systems are subject to continuous change due to business and technological advances. ‘Change' is at the heart of running successful businesses. Legacy systems have been subjected to a myriad of enhancements and maintenance patches to cater for the continuously changing business requirements. Such Legacy Applications have thus become indispensable business tools.
As the average COBOL developer is approaching retirement age, organisations will soon face maintenance and enhancement problems with the Legacy Applications. This is driving the need to re-examine and re-engineer Legacy Applications into modern architectures such as OO, Java J2EE or C#.
The seminar will focus on the following issues:
benefits of Legacy Modernisation
- Increasing ROI on Software Assets via Modernisation
- Hardware obsolescence and Rehosting: Emulation vs. Re-Engineering
- Diminishing Legacy Resources: Introduction of new-blood into IT departments
- Impact of technology change-over
- Increasing ROI on Software Assets via Modernisation
- ROI: a fast time-to-market is everything
Technical Considerations in Legacy Modernisations
- OMG's Architecture Driven Model - Addressing Legacy Transformations
- Changing the architecture of target code - Java J2EE, C# .NET and Rules Engines
- Tool based Transformation - SoftwareMining's CORECT Toolset
- Automatic Application Clean-up – removal of dead code
- Automatic Business Rule Extraction
- Automatic Re-Documentation of Systems
