Service Enablement

Service Enablement

Services Don't Just Pop Out of Thin Air

Making existing application functions available in new contexts as (business) services is the quickest way to flexibly support your business processes with new IT functions.

However: flexible, reusable services do not just pop out of thin air! They have to be developed and maintained. Different architectures, development paradigms, languages and platforms have to be brought together:

These pairs of terms make clear that the scope is broader than just interface transformation and connectivity. What is needed is a sustainable interaction between the architectural concepts. The increasing pace of business process development, the size and complexity of the existing core applications, as well as the high demands regarding security and quality – these all call for a methodical approach with the highest possible degree of automation for the development of services.

Intelligent Services Prevent Development Backlog

Intelligent, adaptive services look after their own technical implementation. Our tools automate intelligent service enablement. They help you to develop services faster and to quickly provide them on the basis of existing functions. Using intelligent business services that flexibly adapt to their environment enables you to speed up and enhance support for your business processes.

With SCORE Adaptive Bridges you can quickly and securely provide your mission-critical core applications – developed in COBOL, PL/I, C, or other languages – as real services for new applications, written e.g. in Java, C# or other modern languages.

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Multi-Platform Development

Multi-Platform Development

Stop Fighting the Infrastructure

Development is more efficient if not every developer has to worry about technical details. Our tools help you to consolidate your software development processes across all platforms and to discharge the technical ballast.

Individual Variety Within a Standard Environment

A large number of different tools is used for the development of modern applications, partly even on different platforms. Using these different tools requires a comprehensive tool and platform-specific know-how. Synchronising the environment is laborious and error-prone, the provenance of artefacts is often not traceable. Transitions between individual tools and platforms, between work groups and roles are time-consuming.

Every enterprise has its own specific development processes that cannot simply be changed. Our tools support you in

• configuring development processes in an individual and audit-proof way
• seamlessly embedding different platforms, development tools and source management systems
• flexibly adapting to processes changes
• smoothly coordinating the cooperation of roles and groups

Consolidated Development Processes Without Technical Ballast

SCOUT² Development Platform helps you to improve the quality of your development: SCOUT² enables you to develop your software development faster and safer. It is based on the clear separation of the logical process definitions from the physical implementation of the development processes for the respective platform. In this way, you can consolidate your development processes across platforms and discharge them from technical ballast.

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Cross-Platform Applications

Cross-Platform Applications

Modern distributed applications are characterized by a dynamic cooperation between components of different types. They are operating in different environments and on different platforms at runtime. And they are developed using multiple tools, languages, paradigms and technologies. The development and maintenance of such cross-platform applications is complex, because so many different technical parameters have to be considered. Even though the goal is uniformity, the reality is complex variety.

Mastering Complexity with Generative Tools

Generative tools help you to master this complexity. The development and maintenance of cross-platform applications becomes easier, if you do not have to worry about technical details and platform specifics. The automation of the development can help to decisively increase the connectivity of the application components, so they can be flexibly connected with each other.

With the automatic generation of intelligent interfaces and a "logical middleware", our tools ensure the flexible bridging of the differences between platforms, languages, paradigms and architectures – and thus utmost connectivity. Our generative tools promote

• more quality in the process of development due to automatic implementation of the technical aspects
• more agility of the applications, because they can be adapted faster to new requirements
• more independence from platforms and technologies, because logic and technique are decoupled
• more innovation, because new technologies can be used faster with less risk.

Always On The Right Platform With The Right Technology

Technologies and platforms change faster than application functions. Our tools help you to make best use of different technologies and platforms and to master the complexity at the same time. You will gain the freedom of decision, because you can easily change platforms and development technologies with generative solutions:

• SCORE Adaptive Bridges - for generative service enablement and automatically producing all platform-specific code
• SCORE Data Architecture Integration - for the development of DBMS-independent persistency layers
• ADS 6 - for the development of platform-independent back-end and batch applications

We also help you in making your applications independent in the first place:

• AMELIO Modernization Platform – the factory for the fully automated application transformation

DSLs and Generators

DSLs and Generators

Generate your software by yourself: economic – specific – first-class

Software Generators Prevent Application Backlog

A worldwide immensely high application backlog and the associated huge demand for software development calls for a productivity increase, for automation and thus for generators. Product lines – variant families of applications – play an increasing role. Besides the automotive and eBusiness sector, this is now particularly visible in the strongly growing market for mobile devices like cell phones, tablet PC’s etc. needing to provide "apps" for the most different platforms – from Android over iOS to Windows Phone, but also at traditional business applications, for different clients, platforms etc.

Requirements on Tools for the Generator Development

Approved modeling and development methods should also be used for the development of software generators:

• Model-driven development – as a basis for an „industrialisation“ of the software development
• Model-driven development – independent of languages and paradigms, focused on the definition of the solution, not of the implementation
• Automated derivation of domain-specific languages (DSL’s) – for the configuration of specialized generators for the easy development of variants
• Economic efficiency of the generator development and usage

(MD)² - Model Driven Meta Development

With HyperSenses Delta Software Technology provides a model-driven software development environment where you can model and generate domain-specific generators yourself: Software generators as domains in model-driven software development – providing all the known advantages. Model-driven development provides a higher efficiency, a higher quality and secures the maintainability. Thereby, the development and use of generators are economically reasonable even for small and specialized tasks/projects.

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Platform Change

Platform Change

Replacing legacy platforms is an important step to prepare the core business applications for future requirements. The old platforms are expensive, they have a limited life expectancy and experts are increasingly hard to find. Software migration and platform change are a way to quickly reduce costs and to preserve the investments in the existing core applications.

But, the price to be paid for these advantages is often to high due to the efforts for changing and testing the productive applications. The migration of complex and highly interconnected mainframe applications requires mass changes. Many companies believe that re-platforming is not realizable because transforming and testing the applications and keeping them productive at the same time leads to a dead-lock for the projects. Without using the right tools, mass changes are risky, expensive and obstruct other development projects.

Only a 100% Automation of All Changes Guarantees Quality and Safety

The applications and databases on mainframes and other legacy platforms implement important operational core applications – running error-free after years of investment. They also meet the business requirements better than standard packages could ever do. If "only" the technology for data accesses, transaction handling, interfaces, connection to presentation frameworks, etc. changes, this does not justify the new development of the applications.

But manual changes – also single ones – endanger the stability and functionality of the applications, and are expensive to test. Mass changes often block important further developments for a long time. That's why with our solutions we rely on full automation of all changes. With AMELIO Modernization Platform, Delta Software Technology provides a software migration solution that

• offers highest quality, because all changes are made 100% automatically –error-free
• is tailored to your requirements and incorporates all specifics of your applications
• produces no dependencies (no footprint, no vendor-lock-in)
• slashes testing efforts – by Meta-Level-Testing
• guarantees the integrity and functionality of your applications at any time
• allows undisturbed further development and maintenance
• permits strategy changes even during the migration

No Footprint

Our tools migrate mainframe applications from Siemens, Unisys, Bull, ICL and many more onto Unix, Microsoft Windows, IBM or other new platforms. We also support you in making your applications platform-independent. You will gain flexibility and safety – so the next platform change will be easier to perform. 

After the migration your legacy applications will run on your new platform in the proven functionality and quality– as if they were developed for this new platform from the beginning – with no footprint and no vendor-Lock-in .

AMELIO Modernization Platform

With AMELIO Modernization Platform we support the modernization, migration and transformation for different platforms, languages, technologies and architectures.

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Application Modernisation

Application Modernisation

In contrast to platform migration or database modernisation, application modernisation is not just about replacing the technique. Application modernisation has to cope with transforming large and complex legacy application systems while the semantic of the application functions must remain untouched.

Application Modernisation Has Many Faces

If you want to better meet the continuously changing requirements of dynamic business processes through legacy modernisation and modern application architectures, our solutions support you efficiently with

• architecture transformations, e.g. when replacing monolithic legacy application structures, or making existing functionality accessible for new application areas
• building service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• implementation of a new front-end technology
• consolidation of databases
• mass changes, e.g. implementation of Unicode, UTF-16, changing key and data definitions, changes due to M&A, to secure compliance or for application remediation

Tailor-made Software Transformation: Automated – Flexible – Safe

Modernising legacy applications is a comprehensive long-term project that causes high costs. But nobody knows how the (enterprise’s) world might look tomorrow and which technologies might be available then. With our solutions you can proceed step-by-step and thus considerably reduce the risk of wrong technology decisions. With our solutions you always have the option to adapt your strategies to the current situation or to change completely. Our solutions

• are exactly tailored to your projects and your requirements
• give you the freedom to change your strategy at any time
• support paradigm changes – without footprint – and they do not transfer the old structures and methods as handicaps into the new environment
• ensure integrity and functionality of the applications – any time
• guarantee undisturbed further development and maintenance. Modernised and not yet modernised applications cooperate smoothly.

Meet New Requirements Faster with Flexible Applications

Our products use most modern methods and technologies to completely automate the modernisation of applications and thus ensuring highest quality and safety. This efficiently takes weight off the already overburdened IT departments. Depending on your modernisation intentions, the following products can be used

• AMELIO Modernisation Platform – The tailor-made factory for the modernisation of large IT applications: 100% automatically and that's why it's safe, reliable and error-free.
• SCORE Adaptive Bridges for intelligent service enablement – reuse of proven applications with the modern technologies: flexible, profitable and non-invasive.
• SCORE Data Architecture Integration – data as real business services: fast, easy and independent of data architectures and management systems.

The modernisation of existing legacy applications is one of the best ways to increase the IT’s productivity with acceptable costs and to better support the business processes. However, every software transformation project is unique, so standard solutions do not help.

Discuss your ideas with us. Together with you we will work out tailor-made solution strategies that will exactly meet your requirements.

Database Modernisation

Database Migration and Modernisation

Relational databases form the backbone of every modern business application. They are the foundation for flexible data analyses, the stored data is the basis for business decisions, the speed of the analyses has a direct influence on business decisions. The migration of the important legacy data, databases and the closely related applications to modern SQL databases clears the way for the flexible use of data. In addition to innovation, the database migration is triggered by re-hosting and consolidation issues for the different data management systems.

In most cases, the access code is closely linked with the business logic, so replacing the database system is difficult. Solutions which are not automated far enough and which allow manual changes are failing. Problems are paradigm changes when replacing hierarchic or network databases, call interfaces vs. embedded SQL and the amount of the changes that have to be implemented consistently.

With AMELIO Modernization Platform we support the modernisation for the most different database systems and offer a migration solution that

• performs all changes 100% automatically – error-free
• executes True Conversion – old DBMS paradigms will not be transferred into the new environment
• produces no dependencies (no footprint)
• slashes testing efforts – by full automation
• guarantees the integrity and functionality of your applications at any time
• allows undisturbed further development and maintenance
• permits strategy changes even during the migration

Optional Additions: Modernising Your Applications

Our solutions support you in case you also want to modernise your applications when changing the database. Some of the options are

• architecture transformation – automatically transfer data accesses into separate layer (Access-Layer)
• service enablement – providing data accesses as real (Java, C#) business services
• cross platform data accesses

AMELIO Modernization Platform

Our solutions have allowed numerous customers to fully automatically migrate their databases, e.g. from IBM IMS/DB to DB2 or Unisys 2200 RSA RDMS to Microsoft SQL. You also can migrate your proprietary, non-standard databases and DB accesses to modern databases fully automated. Your legacy applications will work with the new database system in the proven functionality and quality – as if they were developed for this DBMS right from the beginning.

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COBOL Applications

COBOL Applications

COBOL applications comprise huge investments, enormous business-specific know-how and decades of experience. The sophisticated applications run error-free and resource-optimized. They support the business-critical processes, they still are continually in further development in order to fulfil new requirements and to add new functions.

There are many reasons for migrating, modernising, transforming or completely replacing the COBOL or legacy applications:

• Reducing platform costs by migrating to more cost-effective platforms, COBOL compilers etc.
• Using new SQL databases or integrating with the existing databases
• Replacing old file systems and databases, e.g. Bull IDS2, IBM DL/1, IBM IMS/DB, ICL IDMS, Fujitsu UDS, Fujitsu Leasy, HP RDB, Software AG Adabas, ISAM and VSAM files, and others
• Providing business logic and data functions as services for new applications
• Increasing flexibility and security by introducing a modern application architecture
• Modernising or replacing old user interfaces to adapt them to the graphical interfaces of modern applications
• Replacing COBOL by modern languages like Java, C# and others
• Replacing self-developed or commercial generator systems, e.g. Pacbase, SWT, PowerBuilder and others
• and many more

Delta Tools Automate the Modernisation, Integration and Development of COBOL Applications

Following our motto “The Perfect Way to Better Software” and with our more than 30 years of experience, we provide solutions that automate the modernisation, integration and development of COBOL applications. All our solutions offer you the following advantages:

• Strong automation, in many areas up to 100%
• Future proof, no dead-ends
• No Vendor-lock-ins, no dependencies
• Tool-based solutions instead of service / outsourcing solutions
• Stepwise proceeding with early and measurable results
• Outstanding quality

We provide productivity solutions for your COBOL applications for the following areas: Migration, Mass changes, Modernisation, Re-use, Data integration, Language transformation

Migration of COBOL Applications

You want to change the platform for your COBOL applications? From Bull, Fujitsu, ICL, IBM, Tandem, Unisys or other mainframes to more cost-effective open systems like Unix, Linux or Microsoft Windows? You want to replace operating systems, TP monitors, old file systems and databases, for example Bull IDS2, IBM DL/1 or IMS/DB, ICL IDMS, Fujitsu UDS, Fujitsu Leasy, Software AG Adabas, HP RDB, ISAM and VSAM files, and others?

We offer you a fully automated, error-free migration that provides future-proof applications that look as if they have been developed for the new system platform.

Mass Changes of COBOL Applications

Maintenance and compliance requirements, data definition changes, application remediation, introduction of Unicode, platform change and many other reasons require mass changes across the large, complex and highly interconnected productive IT applications.

Manual changes are the (main) cause for the failure of such change projects. They exacerbate the risks regarding quality, adherence to delivery dates and costs.

We offer you a production line that is exactly tailored to your requirements and 100% automates your mass changes and performs them error-free. All impacts and dependencies will be considered across all layers. There won’t be any manual changes. The process is quick, safe and repeatable. The integrity and functionality of your applications will be ensured continuously. Development and maintenance can be continued in parallel and without limitations, the changed modules will be easily integrated into the change process. Testing efforts will be reduced drastically due to the full automation.

Modernisation of COBOL Applications

Actual modernisation of COBOL applications that goes beyond a simple face-lift generally leads to a comprehensive transformation of the application architecture. This includes, for example, building a layered architecture, extracting data accesses into a separate service layer, unhinging front-ends, re-using application functions as services.

We offer you a fully automated, stepwise modernisation that is perfectly tailored to your individual modernisation requirements and that delivers measurable results early. The targeted transformation will be performed in the way that it directly takes the future application architecture into account. You will be able to replace old techniques, development paradigms and components in a secure way. You will obtain clearly structured, stable and flexible applications. You will obtain applications that also stand the next and the next but one changes. We automate real paradigm changes, even for old or self-developed generator systems and make sure that the maintenance and development of your applications won’t be blocked and the on-going business operation won’t be endangered – without the dreaded vendor lock-in.

Re-use of COBOL Applications

Why re-write everything? Faster success can often be achieved by re-using COBOL applications and application functions as services. Back-end applications and functions are particularly suitable for this.

We offer you the opportunity to build flexible and highly performant bridges between different architectures, paradigms, languages and platforms - of course fully automatically. We offer you automatic service enablement for business and data functions. We automatically generate the bridges (adapters) to ensure that you can use your existing COBOL applications as services quickly, securely and flexibly.

Integration of File Systems and Databases

COBOL applications often process data that is distributed over different file systems or over hierarchic, network and SQL databases. That is why the development is complex, time-consuming and inflexible. New information requirements cannot be met fast enough.

We offer you the automated data integration for your COBOL applications. Automatically generated data services deliver their information, i.e. data or data supplemented with functionality, independently of the underlying databases and other file or data management systems. You can quickly provide data and information for your applications as flexible services. Furthermore, our solution ensures that platform-specific details are cleanly encapsulated and all access code is generated automatically.

Language Transformation

Of course there are reasons that speak for the replacement of COBOL. Experienced COBOL developers are harder to find, the support for classic platforms becomes more expensive or will be stopped.

The language transformation from COBOL to Java or from COBOL to C# is complex, elaborated and risky. An automatic language transformation can help you to quickly and securely provide the application logic and flow of your legacy COBOL applications in Java or C#.

We offer you an automatic COBOL migration that drastically reduces the risks and the effort for a language transformation from COBOL to Java or from COBOL to C#.

You find further information on the automatic language transformation directly from us.