Legacy to SOA: What You Need To Know

Published by Xactis on Jan 26, 2007

The recent sales push of the Relativity Modernization Workbench by IBM, is driving the need and budgets for BRE tools and best practices for legacy modernization projects everywhere.  End-user customers, and the consulting firms (IBM competitors) they trust, are seeking more affordable rules-based modernization tools, services and people with expertise.

Learn the ‘bottom-up’ approach to start Business Rules Extracting, Migrating and Auto Re-architecting your current mission-critical legacy system and their data, into an SOA.  This is a “how-to” presentation from Xactis Corporation, addressing how to get started and eventually establish an internal L2S Center of Excellence. You will learn advanced reverse-engineering technologies & affordable methods for harvesting rules, processes & metadata for documenting, analyzing, designing, transforming & re-architecting to open systems, and optionally into an SOA.

Companies are rapidly implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for new business requirements. But this Legacy to SOA Webcast will teach you a state-of-the-art approach to auto-transform your current mission-critical legacy and ERP systems to an SOA, with the following benefits:

Rapid transformation of COBOL, C, C++, VB, etc., to Java / J2EE or C#/.NET, based on business rules and processes

• Highly automated migration of applications and data
• Risk assessments for all modernizations and implementations
• Smooth implementations & project rescue for ERP / CRM / Datawarehouse
• Improved Business Intelligence for less than satisfactory data warehouse performance
• Regulatory Compliance/Automation Validation – “turning black boxes to glass boxes”
• Fraud Detection / Identity Management setup / Developer Controls
• Faster development/ease of maintenance/Increased testing quality
• Improved QA, Test and Business Continuity as a part of Corporate Governance
• Monitor and create an audit trail of all software, metadata and data assets
• Re-architect/Auto Re-architecting to an SOA