Modernization Workbench®

Understand the Business and Technical Reality of Application Portfolios

The applications that run your business must be extremely efficient, highly stable, and able to respond to new business requirements.   But these application portfolios are often highly complex, inflexible and poorly understood.  This leads to rising costs, increased risk of outage, and slower responsiveness.  In short, applications may fall out of alignment with business goals.

The Modernization Workbench platform is the most comprehensive platform for understanding your application portfolios.  Recognized by industry analysts as the market leading solution, it provides users with centralized business and technical insight into applications – from COBOL, Natural, and PL/I to VB, PowerBuilder, and Java.  This allows global IT teams to identify, prioritize, and execute development activities that realign applications with business requirements. 

Among the key advantages for business users and executives are:

• Improved Governance:  Managers can regain control of the applications that run the business.  Business-centric management dashboards track metrics about the value, cost, risk, and complexity of the application portfolio.  This supports ITIL best practices and helps managers to direct resources to development priorities and to monitor global development teams’ performance.

• Business Visibility:  Analysts, architects, and executives gain business perspectives on their applications.  They can visualize how their applications are structured to support the business, and how they can be re-architected to better support business needs.

• Business Control:  Users can discover, organize, and document the business logic buried within their applications 50% faster than alternatives.  This allows companies to reuse proven business rules in modernization projects like SOA enablement.

Among the key advantages for architects, analysts, and development professionals are:

• Technical Understanding:  Users gain centralized and detailed insight into the structure of their applications.  Team members can quickly get up to speed and become experts on even the most complex applications – accelerating the development lifecycle by 20%+.

• Quality Applications:  Developers can identify non-standard and problematic code to slash the cost and risk of applications.  Powerful analytics help limit the scope of development and testing effort – dramatically accelerating development throughput and boosting application quality. 

• Accelerated Modernization:   The technology isolates business logic into reusable components and re-architects systems to eliminate low quality code.  Its analytics further accelerate the execution of Micro Focus modernization options like migration and SOA enablement.

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