Transoft previews application mining tool for ICL mainframe at AXiS User Conference

April 29, 2003 - Transoft, a leader in enabling organisations to evolve new IT solutions from their existing applications, today announced its entry into the ICL mainframe market at the AXiS Spring Conference (for Fujitsu ICL mainframe users) at Bletchley Park. Transoft previewed an ICL mainframe COBOL version of Transoft evolveIT, its leading application mining productivity toolset. Transoft evolveIT is a proven product that is already helping blue-chip organisations throughout the world, such as New Zealand Inland Revenue, Capital One and Barclays, improve their project planning, increase analyst/developer productivity and slash maintenance and development costs. Transoft plans to announce a core ICL VME COBOL version and estimates it will be of benefit to over 100 sites in the UK alone.

The core evolveIT application understanding product creates a single application repository that gives a unique high level graphical view of an entire application, not only the COBOL source but also jobs, screen usage etc. This total understanding of the application enables it to highlight relationships and dependencies between system elements, giving the analyst or developer a clear view of interfaces and module ‘touch points’. It provides a much more accurate impact analysis i.e. predicting the impact of a single change on any other part of the application. This combination of features dramatically reduces application maintenance fix times and costs. It also substantially improves application enhancement budgeting, shortens change/test/fix/cycle/delivery times and reduces development costs.

The Transoft evolveIT add-on Business Rules Mining module also helps identify and extract key business rules from the application, for re-use within new functionality or for the re-architecture of the application.

Building on the success of evolveIT over the past three years, the ICL mainframe version of evolveIT will enable IT management to both achieve more with their current ICL applications with less resource, and make the best possible strategic decisions regarding migration and modernisation. Hence they will have the ability to maximise their return on the huge investments they have made to date with their applications, extending their life indefinitely.

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