Modernisation - Really Safe

Modernisation - Really Safe

You’d like to modernize your individual IT-applications safe and error-free? With our tools we help you to

• Understand your applications
• Migrate your software, e.g. in case of OS- or DBMS change
• Transform the architecture of your software
• Perform mass changes in your applications

Safe, reliable and error-free due to 100% automation.

You don’t have to accept compromises. As specialist for generative development tools we have automated our own product development. Therefore we can offer you a “modernisation factory” that is exactly tailored to your requirements. In addition, we ensure

• Interference-free continuing development and maintenance during the project
• There is no Point of No Return. Strategy changes are always possible
• The result is future proof and does not create dependencies, vendor lock-ins or foot prints

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Modernisation Topics

Read on to get more information about important modernisation issues

• Software Migration
• Application Modernisation
• Database Migration
  • Automatically replacing IBM IMS/DB
• COBOL Applications

Productivity Tools for Software Modernisation

We support your modernisation project with these tools:

• AMELIO Modernization Platform - fully automated application transformation
• AMELIO Logic Discovery - Understanding COBOL, PL/I and Delta ADS Applications
• SCORE Adaptive Bridges - generative service enablement
• SCORE Data Architecture Integration - DBMS independent persistency layer

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

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 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 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.