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A Legacy Modernization Solution
That Meets You Where You Are
Modernize applications using the Intellisys platform to enable business and technology
transformations. Increase your innovation and performance potential and
reduce costs and risks associated with legacy technology such as COBOL, PowerBuilder, mainframes and more.
A Phased Approach to Legacy Application Modernization
Speed up timelines, mitigate risk, and ultimately achieve success
Align
Align on Goals And Constraints
What are the goals?
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Business transformation
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Technology transformation
What are the constraints?
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Resourcing
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Budgets
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Timelines
Assess
Assess
Application(s)
Assess:
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Current state and future requirements
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Costing options for migration and transformation
Select
Select Path(s) To
Modernization
Identify where to:
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Extract and determine a path forward for current business rules
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Optimize and transform rules/algorithms to target platforms & technologies
Pilot
Start Small And
Run a Pilot
Structure pilot project on:
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Code representative of full application
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Processes needed to achieve target state
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Intermediate deliverables to validate the approach
Scale
Scale
Scale:
- Once good processes and a path to success have been determined
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Scale once good processes and a path to success have been determined
A Phased Approach to Legacy Application Modernization
Speed up timelines, mitigate risk, and ultimately achieve success
Align
Align on Goals And Constraints
What are the goals?
-
Business transformation
-
Technology transformation
What are the constraints?
-
Resourcing
-
Budgets
-
Timelines
Assess
Assess
Application(s)
Assess:
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Current state and future requirements
-
Costing options for migration and transformation
Select
Select Path(s) To
Modernization
Identify where to:
-
Extract and determine a path forward for current business rules
-
Optimize and transform rules/algorithms to target platforms & technologies
Pilot
Start Small And
Run a Pilot
Structure pilot project based on:
-
Code representative of full application
-
Processes needed to achieve target state
-
Intermediate deliverables to validate the approach
Scale
Scale
Scale once good processes and a path to success have been determined
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Scale once good processes and a path to success have been determined
Use this approach with the Intellisys platform and complementary tools and services, to allow for multiple paths to legacy modernization.
What Are Your Modernization Goals?
Business Transformation
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Enhance innovation potential and differentiation
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Create seamless employee and customer experiences
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Ensure continued compliance with changing regulations
Technology Transformation
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Reduce costs of maintaining legacy applications
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Minimize staff attrition and skills shortage risks
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Identify and address potential security vulnerabilities
For all paths and goals, Intellisys helps you start by assessing your applications.
The platform uses an AI/ML based technology developed over 15+ years and generates documentation artifacts with 90%+ less time & effort.
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Intellisys for Business Transformation
Capabilities
Extract, audit, & categorize rules and algorithms
Optimize legacy code/algorithms
Export rules for use in project management tools and/or modern platforms and commercial-off-the-shelf products
Transform rules and algorithms to modern technologies such as Java, .NET, and microservices
Outcomes
Consolidate application portfolio by identifying obsolete, duplicate, and subset rules
Replace application(s) with a modern off-the-shelf product or platform (COTS, SaaS, Low-code-No-code)
Redesign and/or rebuild system(s) from the ground up
Case Studies for Business Transformation
Case Studies for Business Transformation
Intellisys for Technology Transformation
Capabilities
Optimize legacy code
Transform legacy code to modern technologies such as Java, .NET, and microservices
Outcomes
Enhance & transform your code to a modern language and run it on non-cloud infrastructure
Enhance & migrate your applications to the cloud using cloud-native architectures
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Case Studies for Technology Transformation
Case Studies for Technology Transformation
Step 1
Understand the connectivity, logic, and data structures of your applications.
Rearchitect solution steps
Step 2
Extract business logic and consolidate into business rules and processes leveraging subject matter experts (SME).
Step 3
Determine if updates need to be made to these rules and peocesses.
Step 4
Plan out and implement your revised application architecture determining number of microservices and how they interact with one another.
Step 5
Re-document target application to keep information up to date for the future.
Extend your application features quickly by implementing them in a modern architecture
Old, monolithic applications require constant rebuilding and deployment for even the simplest of changes. These applications have been constructed with all business rules related to a business area bundled into a single entity, resulting in inefficient maintenance processes and escalating costs.
To alleviate this, enterprises are adopting more of a modular architecture using microservices. However, to undergo this transformation requires a deep understanding of the logic and connections currently contained in an application set.
Intellisys supports the following path to accelerate this evolution.
Solution:
Rearchitect
Rearchitect Solution Features
Trace execution of statements.
Trace flow of variables and entities.
Create comprehensive documentation including data logistics and inventory, data flow, business and program logic, and more.
Deactivate statements & business logic.
Merge & split business logic.
Catalog and sub-catalog derived rules.
Step 1
Is a COTS product available where a substantial number of policies and rules that you wish to execute in your modernized application already built-in? If so, consider a replacement.
Analyze your options
Step 2
If such a product is not available, does your application contain critical functionality, yet require major enhancements? If so, consider a rebuild.
Step 3
If an appropriate COTS product is not available, is your application suitable for modernization as-is or with minimal enhancements? If so, consider refactoring.
Step 4
If it makes sense to move forward, automatically export the rules and processes into your COTS solution of choice.
Step 5
Re-document target application to keep information up to date for the future.
Replace or Rebuild
Which path should you choose?
Solution:
Replace or Rebuild
Solution:
Replace or Rebuild
Step 1
Document the application to be modernized that includes connectivity diagrams, business logic and data access details.
Step 2
Consolidate the business logic using Intellisys’ BRE features to derive business rules.
Step 3
Catalog and sub-catalog the derived rules based on services to be implemented in the COTS product or target application.
Step 4
If it makes sense to move forward, automatically export the rules and processes into your COTS solution of choice.
Step 4
Export the rules for implementation in the COTS product, or for consumption by the modern application development team.
Step 5
Re-document target application to keep information up to date for the future.
Replace or Rebuild solution steps
When choosing to replace or rebuild an application, the prudent next step would be to extract all the business rules from the application to be replaced or rebuilt. If the application is being replaced, any extracted rule that is not present in the COTS product may be exported to that product for implementation. If the application is being rebuilt, the extracted rules may be included in the specifications of the target application to be developed.
Step 1
Understand the connectivity, logic, and data structures of your application(s).
Rebuild solution steps
Step 2
Extract business logic and consolidate into business rules and processes leveraging subject matter experts (SME).
Step 3
Export rules and determine what updates need to be made to these rules and processes to accommodate new needs and what can be streamlined.
Step 4
Rewrite application, test in the relevant environments and deploy.
Step 5
Re-document target application to keep information up to date for the future.
Rebuild Solution Features
Identify redundant code.
Catalog and sub-catalog derived rules.
Export all rules.
Merge/Split subroutines into consolidated processes.
Annotate program flow in plain English so easy for business users to understand.
Merge & split business logic.
Group derived business rules as services and generate a service model diagram.
Rename derived rules to better describe their functionality.
Rewrite out-of-date applications from the ground up for consolidation and efficiency
Over time, large organizations have likely accumulated multiple applications with similar purposes as well as those that no longer fully serve current customer needs as is. In order to create a more effective and up-to-date application set, these organizations should consider rewriting applications that are only partially relevant for today’s business needs.
ntellisys ensures the success of such complex projects using the following pathway.
Solution:
Rebuild
Dive deeper into Intellisys' capabilities that support Application Modernization
Overview of the
Intellisys Platform
Agile Business Rules
Extraction
Optimization & Migration
Documentation and Analysis
Dive deeper into Intellisys' capabilities that support Application Modernization
Overview of the
Intellisys Platform
Documentation And
Analysis
Agile Business Rules Extraction
Code Optimization &
Migration
See How Intellisys Also Facilitates:
Application Assessment
Determine maintenance needs & an application modernization strategy using automated assessment tools.