B+S Banksysteme AG (B+S) has one of the largest application systems that has been developed with Delta tools. In April 2012 B+S started to introduce the pre-release of Delta ADS 6 in order to again increase the efficiency and quality of their software development and maintenance.
Generative Development with Delta ADS
B+S successfully uses the generative development system Delta ADS for the development of their products already for decades. More than 300 million lines of code are generated for four completely different platforms every year.
"For more than 20 years now we successfully use Delta tools to develop and maintain our large scale and complex banking solutions. The excellent implementation of the principle of generative software development by all Delta tools enables us to develop our software products platform independently and with the highest possible degree of automation. Thereby we meet our customers’ demands on reliability and quality.", says Wilhelm Berger, CFO at B+S.
Experiences with the new ADS 6
In April 2012, B+S started to introduce the pre-release of Delta ADS 6. Oswald Klackl, head of architecture & quality management at B+S, about the new functions:
"The new ADS 6 enables us to further improve the efficiency and quality of our software development and maintenance. For example, new functions for the detailed documentation and description of the generating process help us to securely and fast perform changes and enhancements on our large scale and complex applications."
Oswald Klackl, head of architecture & quality management
About B+S Banksysteme AG
B+S Banksysteme Aktiengesellschaft (B+S) supports banks, data centres and core banking manufacturers with customizable standard software and with powerful, flexible and scalable application packages for financial management. The products of the company which is listed at the Frankfurt stock exchange are completely platform-independent and due to their standard interfaces they can flexibly be integrated. They are multi-client and multi-currency capable as well as multilingual.
Further information on B+S: www.bs-ag.com
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40 years of Partnership
There are now more than 40 years of partnership - read also: "Customer Day: 40 Years of B+S Banking Systems"
Delta has a proven track record of building long-term working relationships with our customers. Read what some of them have to say about Delta products:
We are particularly proud of the statement by Gerard Doll, Director ICT RDW, regarding the successful co-operation with us:
"Working with the people from Delta proved to be a very good choice. They delivered when other companies couldn’t. From RDW’s point of view Delta is a highly dedicated company with an even higher level of expertise. All the people from Delta we met have this dedication and expertise. And as a bonus: they are also very nice people to work with.
We have done business with a lot of companies but this is the first time I can, without holding back, truly recommend one: Delta has proven that it is a reliable and trustworthy partner."
Gerard Doll, Manager ICT, RDW, The Netherlands
AMELIO
AMELIO
Quotes about AMELIO Logic Discovery - AMELIO Logic Discovery is an innovative analysis tool that helps you to improve your understanding of your ADS, COBOL and PL/I applications and to ensure the relevant functionality.
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Peter Nübel |
"Searching for a tool that analyses our PL/I applications fully automated, completely, quick and reliable, we found Delta and AMELIO. In particular the quality and depth of the analyses and the high level of PL/I competence of Delta have convinced us." "In a proof of concept Delta exemplarily analysed selected PL/I applications from LVM with AMELIO Logic Discovery. The analyses were performed automatically, completely, quickly and reliably. Within the restricted timeframe the presented results could only be achieved by using a powerful automatic support." |
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Klaus Schulze |
"The analysis results provided by AMELIO Logic Discovery and their presentation, even the complex ones, are noteworthy." |
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Valida Pension AG
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Friedrich Pohle |
"AMELIO supports craftsmanship in technical analysis, as many of the required information is supplied." "AMELIO facilitates refactoring enormously." "AMELIO Dead code analysis are of great help: manageable, fast overview." |
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"AMELIO Logic Discovery offers new, flexible and structured views on our applications. Especially the logical views help us to find and understand the bottlenecks in our application." |
Quotes about AMELIO Modernization Platform - Change your large-scale IT applications with a tailor-made factory: securely, reliably, error-free and 100% automated.
Delta ADS
Delta ADS
Quotes about ADS Application Development for COBOL and PL/I - Platform independent development for future-proof back-end applications.
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| Wilhelm Berger CFO |
"For more than 20 years now we successfully use Delta tools to develop and maintain our large scale and complex banking solutions. The excellent implementation of the principle of generative software development by all Delta tools enables us to develop our software products platform independently and with the highest possible degree of automation. Thereby we meet our customer’s demands on reliability and quality." |
| Peter Bauch COO |
"The guaranteed long-term support of Delta tools is and always was of vital importance for us. This also includes their continuous enhancement to fit new demands, to always be state of the art. An excellent example for this is the comprehensive integration into the standard Eclipse. This perfectly matches our strategy of a modern and future-proof development landscape." |
| Oswald Klackl Head of Architecture & Quality Management |
"The new ADS 6 enables us to further improve the efficiency and quality of our software development and maintenance. For example new functions for the detailed documentation and description of the generating process help us to securely and fast perform changes and enhancements on our large scale and complex applications." |
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| Gerd Dietrich Application Development Manager |
“We can now create BS2000-UTM applications as well as callable mainframe servers from our Delta/ADS programs: with only a new macro set, and without having to change the Delta/ADS applications in any way.” “This project pointed out that ADS from Delta Software truly is a piece of gold. The platform change was in principle a push of a button.” |
| Dr. Eckhard Otto CIO |
“We saw once again how valuable generators are: our BS2000-UTM applications now even allow us to be multi-channel capable.” "Our BS2000 applications are being revived by being usable in our enterprise portal." |
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| Rainer Neuhaus Development Manager |
"The Delta development tools make it much easier for us to implenment new requirements and to react to changing circumstances. Our applications are now mostly platform independent and we are extending their useful lifetime. That represents real money." |
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| Willi Caluori Manager Software Architecture and Support |
“Without ADS we would never have been able to develop and port the GUI client/server and Internet solutions so quickly and efficiently – from Microsoft MS-DOS to IBM OS/2 and then onto Microsoft Windows!” |
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| Graham Dohren Senior Developer |
“After installation of the Plug-in we tested the generated output and it was 100% identical. Therefore we will go productive with the Delta ADS development on Eclipse in the beginning of 2019. As developers we can now work in one environment without having to switch between SCOUT² and Eclipse.” |
SCORE
SCORE
Quotes about SCORE Adaptive Bridges - Intelligent service enablement for the reuse of proven applications with modern technologies: flexible, profitable and non-invasive.
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“After only a few steps I could already imagine the structure of the complete integration project.”
“SCORE Adaptive Bridges lets us ‘build bridges’ between the old and new worlds – without detailed technical skills in the middleware or portal environments.” |
| Dr. Eckhard Otto CIO |
“Making infrastructure decisions is much simpler due to the platform independence of the services: we create the model only once and can then produce adapters for every portal environment and every middleware at the press of a button.” |
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| Gerhard Batiajew CIO |
"One of the key reasons we have selected SCORE Adaptive Bridges is that we can make our mission-critical applications available as services that we can quickly and easily reuse – without any extra effort – in other contexts, for example in a Service-Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Portals etc." |
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| Robert Koch CIO |
“Our experience with SCORE in the prototype and pilot phase were confirmed when we scaled up to the real project – 60 developers, 30,000 source files and 12,000,000 lines of code. SCORE delivers what it promises. SCORE handled our complex legacy architecture. We chose the right solution.” |
| Thomas Müller Manager Application Architecture and Methods |
“We generated services for diverse middleware and platform combinations – SCORE Integration Suite handled this effortlessly. We set an aggressive schedule for this project. We were impressed that using SCORE Integration Suite we managed to consistently achieve productivity improvements of 400% to 600%. We are now working on our strategy for future projects with Delta.” |
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| Hugo Holm CIO |
"Using SCORE we pave the way for new forms of business processes such as the Internet with their very different requirements. SCORE allows us to economically reuse proven functions in new applications. In this way we are able to respond faster and reduce risks – to the benefit of our customers." |
| Rainer Neuhaus Development Manager |
"SCORE and SCOUT² make it much easier for us to implenment new requirements and to react to changing circumstances. Our applications are now mostly platform independent and we are extending their useful lifetime. That represents real money." |
Quotes about SCORE Data Architecture Integration - Data as real business services: fast, easy and independent of data architectures and management systems.
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"The fact that we did platform, database and application architecture transformation in one step was way beyond what we expected to be possible. SCORE Data Architecture Integration proved to be the robust and reliable product we needed to keep our data secure and available during this project." "Delta proposed a completely different scenario. They suggested producing with SCORE Data Architecture Integration one data service for each and every program, in a first step even for our old Unisys OS 2200 platform. Our applications would access the RDMS data on Unisys OS 2200 through these services only. "After our application architecture had been modernized that way, the next step could take place: |
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Marcel Rozema |
"SCORE's configurable nature enabled us to implement a database error handling registration that cooperated with our old error handling. Modernized and not yet modernized programs did share that part of their functionality. Also the fact that we could decide how and with what middleware the remote solution would be implemented was an important bonus for us." "When Delta suggested using SCORE Data Architecture Integration to develop data access services instead of changing the existing SQL CALL interface code in our existing programs to Embedded SQL, we first had to think about that. In the end the solution has proven to be a key factor that enabled us a smooth step by step migration. Besides, the automated approach that comes with SCORE Data Architecture Integration has improved the quality of the data accesses in our programs." |
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"SCORE Data Architecture Integration also influenced the quality of our software development. In the old situation our programmers had to decide what programs were affected by a database change and had to implement the changes by hand. Using SCORE with its automated approach all relevant data access services are checked against a change in the data model and only if there is a compatibility issue a programmer is needed to carry out the necessary changes. As a result of this we have much more certainty that our programs are correctly using the database." |
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Geert Pater |
"SCORE Data Architecture Integration enabled us to free our application portfolio from its database dependence. Its comprehensive support of distributed applications and automated production of data services for the different mainframe (UNISYS RSA RDMS) and open systems (Microsoft SQL Server) allowed a smooth migration without risk." |
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"Working with the people from Delta proved to be a very good choice. They delivered when other companies couldn't. From RDW's point of view Delta is a highly dedicated company with an even higher level of expertise." |
SCOUT²
SCOUT²
Quotes about SCOUT² Development Platform - Optimized and integrated development processes across all software components, tools and platforms: Stop the “fight against the infrastructure”.
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"At RDW we have sensitive applications and very personal data. The security and quality of our development processes are our highest priority. SCOUT² not only allows us to support our mainframe and PC-based development processes, but it also fully embraces our special security and quality management processes." "Delta’s SCOUT² Development Platform not only allows us to support our Unisys OS2200 mainframe and PC-based development processes, but it is also fully embraces our special security and quality management processes." |
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"Migrating to SCOUT² release 4.0 is very simple and was certainly worth it for us: The user interface is now even more intuitive and one feels immediately at home." |
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"SCOUT² isolates the developer from many technical details, dramatically simplifying their work as well as preventing many possible sources of errors. For example, processes such as Generation, Compilation and File Transfers are handled in the background fully automatically by SCOUT²."
"The new user interface in SCOUT² makes our developers more productive. Detailed information is always available with a single click, but does not waste screen space when it is not required." “With this migration project we have achieved multiple objectives within the budgeted time and cost. |
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"SCORE bringt uns einen erheblichen Qualitätsgewinn, den wir erst noch mit weniger Aufwand erreichen: Denn generierter Code ist ganz einfach richtig – der Aufwand für die Qualitätssicherung und das Testen vermindert sich beträchtlich. Die neue SCOUT² interaktive Entwicklungsumgebung von Delta ist bezüglich Komfort ein Quantensprung. Solche Werkzeuge verbessern die Arbeitsqualität erheblich." |
Emerging Technologies
Emerging Technologies
Quotes about HyperSenses - Integrated system for model driven development of DSLs and software generators.
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| Hessel van Tuinen CEO |
"HyperSenses has enabled HT Applications to support of a manifold of platform and customer variants of our smartphone apps without the burden of implementing the same functionality over and over again." |
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| Oswald Klackl Manager Software Engineering |
"I can imagine that model-driven development and product lines can bring similar innovative leaps like we achieved by the use of Delta ADSplus and SCORE for our platform-independent product development." |
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| Thomas Müller Manager Application Architecture and Methods |
"The flexibility of the SCORE Integration Suite technology impressed us. Delta's technology handled all the integration details, allowing us to maintain our critical systems while building new adaptive interfaces. Tools like “HyperSenses” and “ANGIE” show the way that mainstream development will probably be done in the future.” |
Leading organisations in the banking and insurance market, mail and telecom providers, industrial enterprises, public administrations, software companies and system integrators in Europe and all over the world increase the quality and productivity of the development, integration and modernisation of individual software applications by using our solutions.
We have selected just some of these customers to give you an impression of the wide range of large and well-known companies that use Delta products for their mission-critical applications:
- Banking and Insurance
- BCP, BSQ, Deutsche Bundebank, Goldman Sachs, Liechtensteinische Landesbank, Zürcher Kantonalbank, UBS, ...
- AON, AXA, DBV-Winterthur, Generali, Gothaer, RSI, LVM, AMP, Medicare, Suva, Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse, Zurich, ...
- Software Houses, Post, Telecom
- B+S Banksysteme, AquilaHeywood, Deutsche Telekom, Grupo Edson Queiroz, La Poste, Logica E&U Solutions, METRO, msg Systems, T-Systems, Swisscom, ...
- Trade and Public Administration
- Hütte Krupp Mannesmann, ADAC, ArcelorMittal (Sollac), Daimler, Datenzentrale Baden-Württemberg, MAN, One Steel, Schorch, SmartStream, Vallourec, Voestalpine, Finanzverwaltung NRW, RDW, ...
- References – Read detailed case studies from customer projects to understand how they used Delta products and the benefits to their business.
- Customer Quotes – Read some of the nice things that customers have said about Delta’s products and services and how they have helped them meet demanding business and technical challenges.
WGKK decided for the automated modernization with AMELIO Modernization Platform from Delta Software Technology, because two goals could be achieved at one go:
- Faster applications by modernizing the data accesses.
- Platform independency to simplify the migration to more cost-effective platforms later on.
About WGKK
Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse (WGKK – Vienna health insurance) provides - together with its contractual partners - efficient and profound medical care for its 1.124.000 insurants and their 400.000 non-contributory relatives. It is a public corporation and organized as self-government - just like the other Austrian social insurances. This form of organization guarantees to be as close as possible to the insurants and independent from state.
The WGKK continuously extends its services to conform to the social and rapid medical developments.
Increased Performance and Simplified Platform Migration
With the help of AMELIO Modernization Platform from Delta Software Technology, the WGKK replaced all database accesses previously using an Assembler call interface with Embedded SQL (ESQL). By this modernization WGKK could increase the performance of the application package “Leistungen” for insurance payments and services significantly. At the same time the modernized applications became portable and thus were prepared for a platform migration.
"AMELIO allowed us to build a modernization factory that reduced the effort needed for a critical SQL migration project in our core UNISYS OS 2200 applications by 70%.
Our trust in AMELIO was also repeatedly confirmed in other transformation projects, including Y2K and an ACOB/UCOB COBOL compiler migration project"
Dieter Zink, IT Director, Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse, Austria
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The WGKK could increase the performance of their applications significantly by the modernisation with AMELIO Modernization Platform from Delta Software Technology. The complex and slow data accesses using Assembler have been replaced by performant Embedded SQL. The simultaneously achieved portability of the applications simplified the migration to more cost-effective platforms.
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All our solutions are designed to perform changes securely and smoothly. We are specialists for software tools that completely automate technical tasks.
Our solutions are flexible and individually adaptable. They help you with
- Modernization and migration of platforms, applications and databases
- Service enablement to build a SOA
- Integration of applications and data
- Development for different platforms
Further information on the products successfully used at WGKK can be found here
Suva use Generative Programming Tools to Maximize Return on Investment when Integrating Legacy COBOL Applications in a Thin-Client Architecture
Suva is the Swiss national accident insurance organization covering 100,000 companies and 1.9 million people. Their challenge was to migrate critical applications from legacy OS/2 fat clients to a distributed thin-client architecture using Java GUI, Windows 2000 servers and Citrix MetaFrame connected to IBM AIX servers with Oracle WebLogic and a central DB2 database running on IBM S/390 mainframes.
"We set an aggressive schedule for this project. We were impressed that using SCORE Integration Suite we managed to consistently achieve productivity improvements of 400% to 600%. We are now working on our strategy for future projects with Delta."
Thomas Müller, Manager Application Architecture and Methods, Suva
The critical business and data access tiers of Suva’s application were developed in COBOL and had to be directly reusable in the new architecture. The presentation tier was to be redeveloped using Java. Oracle Tuxedo was selected for communication from Java clients and the application server.
After a careful evaluation Suva selected SCORE Integration Suite from Delta Software Technology to migrate these critical business applications to the new thin-client architecture.
SCORE Integration Suite is a cost-effective and highly productive solution for exploiting the value of existing legacy applications and data stores by service-based integration. SCORE Integration Suite combines integrated software tools, processes and related professional services to create adaptive services with interface intelligence, service agility and service quality.
In this project SCORE Integration Suite provided Suva with a quick and easy way of taking their existing COBOL business logic and data access tiers and directly reusing them within their very different new architecture. SCORE Integration Suite generated all necessary server-side component and middleware frames in native COBOL to expose existing functionality as services with well-defined interfaces.
Client-side proxies were generated in Java to allow the services to be used by the new Java clients. The platform portability of SCORE Integration Suite enables Suva to use the same server instances with a range of alternatives client technologies. Initial testing is already underway with J2EE/EJB clients.
"We generated services for diverse middleware and platform combinations – SCORE Integration Suite handled this effortlessly."
Thomas Müller, Manager Application Architecture and Methods, Suva
A project as large and complex as this (30,000 source files and 12,000,000 lines of code) naturally raised non-standard requirements and numerous special cases. The flexibility of SCORE Integration Suite enabled the Suva team to solve these requirements.
Using the concepts of "Generative Programming" and early versions of "Pattern By Example" and the "ANGIE" frame-based generator, the Suva team automatically generated a series of non-standard components, including a complex test framework and an additional client proxy layer to integrate with a new Java GIU framework.
Working with SAXOS Informatik AG, Delta’s distributor in Switzerland, Suva was able to maximize the return on investment in their legacy COBOL applications by directly reusing more 5,000,000 lines of COBOL code in the new architecture. The new application is now in production and supporting a full production workload with more than 2,000 clients located at Suva’s 22 branch offices throughout Switzerland.
"With SCORE Integration Suite we see the results of our long-term commitment to generative programming and other emerging technologies. They are already giving our customers a significant advantage in the market, and in today's business environment everyone needs all the help they can get."
Rüdiger Schilling, Managing Director, Delta Software Technology GmbH
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Suva uses generative programming tools from Delta Software Technology to maximise return on investment when integrating legacy COBOL applications in a distributed thin-client architecture.
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Sollac (ArcelorMittal), a member of the affiliated group Usinor, the worldwide market-leading company in the iron- and steel industry, has been using the products of Delta Software Technology since 1986. Applications for industrial manufacturing were implemented with ADS on the HP (Tandem) NonStop platform.
In the course of 2001, Sollac once again confirmed its faith in the products of Delta Software Technology. Particularly to be highlighted here are the latest innovative products: the extensive and multifunctional development platform SCOUT² and the excellent tool for integrating applications, SCORE Integration Suite.
The development environment was moved from the HP NonStop host to PCs and nowadays, the developers are very satisfied with their new working environment – SCOUT².
Since the beginning of September 2002, the development team at Sollac is also enabled to test their application software using the target system Fujitsu COBOL, allowing them to comprehensively test in the Windows-based development environment before generating the programs for the actual NonStop production platform.
Next, Sollac intends to update their applications by replacing the previous application client by a Java Front-end. OSS will be used as the operating system on the existing HP NonStop platform, with NonStop Tuxedo introduced as the middleware. This project will be implemented using SCORE Integration Suite with the generation targets Java and Tuxedo.
