Transoft announces automatic GUI conversion for HP e3000 users

August 4, 2003 - Transoft, the leader in evolving new IT solutions from existing applications and a major vendor of HP e3000 application migration solutions, announced today that its proven Transoft Graphical Adapter (TGA) product is now available on the HP e3000 platform. Now all HP e3000 users with VPLUS forms handling, irrespective of whether they have packages or own source, can automatically convert their existing VPLUS forms directly into Web browser or Microsoft Windows graphical interfaces, using JSP, ASP.NET and Visual Basic. The first public demonstration of the product will be at HP World 2003 in Atlanta, commencing 11 August.

TGA has already been widely used as part of the Transoft Application Migration Solution to migrate HP e3000 applications to open systems platforms and add a modern graphical user interface in the process. The product converts VPLUS screens into a base XML definition, from which the new graphical forms are generated. The new user interface is accessed through TGA by the original application programs without any code change. This means users get the benefits of a GUI without any change to existing business logic, dramatically reducing testing and delivery times.

Using TGA in the MPE environment is the logical first step to deliver the benefit of a new user interface, before moving the application to a UNIX or Windows platform.

Dave Wiseman, an independent consultant to the HP e3000 market, commented, “A major plus of the Transoft Graphical Adapter solution on the HP e3000 is that my customers can add a new GUI and gain the user advantages of shorter training times, lower error rates and remote access, while readying their application for migration."

TGA is the next product from Transoft to be made available on MPE following the announcement that the Transoft Screen Component Adapter is also now available for HP e3000 users. This enables business rules within HP e3000 applications to be exposed as Web services, or Enterprise JavaBeans, also without changing the application. The integration of Java and .NET applications with the HP e3000 applications is greatly simplified, reducing the cost and time to deployment of new Web, mobile or packaged applications.

Paul Holland, Transoft, Inc. chief executive officer said, ”As the leading migration solution provider to the HP e3000 market, our goal has always been to offer customers a broader range of solutions to match their migration goals. These options have been underpinned by our ‘don’t just move – improve’ philosophy, modernizing the application as it is migrated. By making the Transoft Graphical Adapter and Transoft Screen Component Adapter available on the HP e3000 platform, we are giving even more choices to the HP e3000 community, allowing them to respond to immediate IT and business priorities with an ‘improve before you move’ approach.”

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