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Newsletter - Thursday, 10. July 2025

Dear Reader,

Have you ever wondered how a once cleanly structured application could become a big ball of mud? Clear structures are no longer recognizable, and it feels like everyone is interacting with everyone else, in an undefined manner? And even more importantly: how can you re-understand such an application in order to clean it up, refactor it, and modernize it? Yes. It's possible with AMELIO Logic Discovery. We presented and summarized it at the "Software Reengineering and Evolution" workshop.

The loss of clean design is one of the challenges, when maintaining and developing your solid and proven applications. During our webinar series "Icebergs Ahead," we depicted which other risks can threaten proven applications and how to safely navigate them with the AMELIO family. We have recorded all episodes for you.

The importance of proven applications and the need for automated solutions, to clean up and modernize them, were also highlighted at the IBM Z symposium. Our colleague Manuel Dolle and other participants, explored there the topic of "application modernization" in a panel discussion.

Also in this issue: Our customer RDW has successfully modernized the development process for its Delta ADS applications.

And we have created a new ADS release, Release 6.6.8 is ready for you.

Enjoy reading this issue,

Your Delta Software Technology Team

Content

• Lecture on WSRE: Analysing a Big Ball of Mud
• Successfull Webinar Series: 'ICEBERGS AHEAD: Discover - CleanUp - Modernize' completed
• IBM Z Symposium 2025 from 14.-15. May 2025 in Stuttgart
• RDW modernizes its development pipeline for Delta ADS
• Support Information: New Product Updates available

Open Newsletter: https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6377

Legacy applications not only have old technology, often they also are maintained with legacy development processes.

After successfully migrating their mainframe application portfolio to a windows environment, RDW decided to bring their development process completely under Visual Studio.

Delta Software Technology provided RDW with a plugin for Delta IDS (ADS on Visual Studio) to support RDW’s hybrid strategy where runtime environment consists of Delta ADS COBOL modules and C# modules. Together they provide the necessary business functionality.

More about this here:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6378

IBM Z Symposium 2025 from 14.-15. May 2025 in Stuttgart.

This year, we were again actively involved in the IBM Z symposium in Stuttgart at the MHP Arena for two days. It was packed with exciting presentations on AI, CyberVault, z/OS, DevOps, and security.

We happily accepted IBM's invitation, to participate in the panel discussion on the topic „application modernization“. Moderated by Tobias Leicher (IBM), Heidi Schmidt (PKS), Frank Hammer (Kyndryl), and Manuel Dolle (Delta Software) discussed the current state of affairs. The modernization topic was regarded from an economic, advisory and technical perspective and lots of expertise and knowledge has been shared. The conclusion: It's time to analyze and clean up applications to increase maintenance efficiency, save costs, and make the transition to legacy systems for the next generation much more easier.

Many thanks to IBM for this great event and the opportunity to actively participate.

Do you also want to understand and clean-up your applications?
With AMELIO, Delta can offer you fully automated solutions for this task. Just contact us.

Further information and the review can be found at IBM.

Software Reengineering & Evolution: Benefit from the Direct Exchange between Practice and Research

“Software Reengineering and Evolution” is an evergreen in software development. However, new technologies and possibilities in the area of development lead to ever new challenges in dealing with the existing software.

The expert group Software Reengineering and Evolution (SRE) within the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) - the German-speaking professional society for computer science - offers exciting presentations and discussions on challenges and solutions, tool demos and much more.

Delta was there with a presentation on April 9, 2025 at 2 p.m.:

Analysing a Big Ball of Mud

The original design of an application is often lost over the decades, creating a “big ball of mud” instead. Such applications are difficult to maintain and even more difficult to modernize. With AMELIO Logic Discovery you can analyse applications and prepare for clean-up and modernization projects.
How? We presented and summarized this for you at the Software Reengineering and Evolution (WSRE) workshop of the GI Software Reengineering (SRE) specialist group.

All details about the workshop “Software Reengineering and Evolution” and the presentation slides can be found here:
https://delta-software.com/link.php?en=6355

Part 4 from May 13th, 2025

Review: Webinar Party 4 'ICEBERGS AHEAD: Modernize - Make Applications future-proof!'

We would like to thank you very much for your interest in our webinar "ICEBERGS AHEAD: Modernize - Make Applications future-proof!" from May 13th, 2025.

Many people think of mass changes due to specifications when they hear the word "modernize". But replacing a 7 with a 9 is easy. A script is enough. We'll go a little further. For us, concepts like automated, flexible approaches, no footprint, and meta-level testing play a crucial role in modernization projects.
If you're interested in the series or individual parts, you can find the recordings of the webinar series here.

Slides and Recordings of the Webinars

You were not able to attend?

You can now watch all Recordings and download all presentation slides (part 1 to 4) using the following link: Recordings of part 1 to 4.