Transoft
announces Business Rules Mining solution to help
companies improve agility
20 October 2003 – Orlando FL,
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Transoft, a leader
in enabling companies to evolve new solutions from existing
applications, announced today at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo,
its new solution for mining business rules from large mainframe
COBOL applications.
The Transoft solution uses a methodology based on a
Business Rules Mining (BRM) extension to the proven Transoft
evolveIT application understanding toolset. The evolveIT/BRM
add-on module provides an easy to use, automated, step-by-step
approach to the usually complex task of identifying business
logic buried deep in large COBOL applications. Transoft
evolveIT is used by blue-chip companies worldwide, including
New Zealand Inland Revenue, Capital One and Barclays
Bank.
Using, as a foundation, the extensive application understanding
capabilities already provided in the core Transoft evolveIT
product, the Transoft evolveIT/BRM module allows an application
to be partitioned into specific business process related
views, within which business rule sites, and then the
business rules, are identified. Transoft evolveIT/BRM
consolidates the rules into a single repository, from
which they can be made available in a variety of re-usable
formats, including XML documents for export into rules
engines or application modeling tools.
"Many organizations are beginning to realize the
potential benefits of identifying the business rules
buried in their legacy systems", commented Dale
Vecchio, a senior Gartner analyst, who is an expert on
legacy application modernization trends. Vecchio added, "by
mining out the existing core logic that controls the
behavior of a business and making this information available
to both technical and non-technical user communities,
companies can become more agile, implementing new business
processes faster, while understanding existing processes
more thoroughly".
“Mining business rules from large applications
which have been developed and used for decades is an
extremely complex job and virtually impossible to do
manually”, said John Pocock, Transoft BRM principal
architect. He continued, “There have been several ‘silver
bullet’ solutions brought to the market in recent
years that promised to automatically find every business
rule in your application, but we see little evidence
of success and are frankly skeptical about their applicability
to real world projects. The beauty of our solution is
that it leverages the user's knowledge and skills with
the productivity benefits of a tools-based approach and
a pragmatic methodology which has been proved to deliver
tangible results”.
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