Transoft evolveIT Application Understanding product

Achieving more - with less

Today IT management is under increasing pressure to deliver more with less resource. Transoft evolveIT is a proven mainframe COBOL application understanding tool with several unique features that can assist IT management achieve this seemingly impossible goal. Customer experience proves that it can significantly reduce costs and improve quality, while at the same time reducing delivery times for business process improvements.

By assisting in virtually every aspect of application maintenance and enhancement, it also empowers the individual IT professional to achieve more, beat deadlines and increase job satisfaction.

Transoft evolveIT is used by major blue chip organizations worldwide including Capital One in the US, Barclays Bank in the UK and the Inland Revenue of New Zealand. It is available for an expanding range of mainframe and open systems environments including IBM and Unisys mainframes.

Real user benefits

The typical savings and immediate benefits our customers have experienced by using Transoft evolveIT on COBOL development and maintenance projects are:

• Programmer productivity improved by up to 33%
• Project delivery timescales improved by up to 25%
• Resource costs reduced by up to 25%

Transoft evolveIT can automatically identify redundant code, the elimination of which reduces application maintenance costs and hardware resource requirements.

Management and individuals also both benefit from the much reduced learning curve required when switching to a different application. Management reduces non-productive costs and the individual gains flexibility and job satisfaction.

"We are on track to improve the productivity of our Application Development team by 30% and save in excess of NZ$1 million"
Don Burns, IT Portfolio Manager and evolveIT Project Manager, New Zealand Inland Revenue

Using Transoft evolveIT you can quickly and easily …

• Build an inventory of your entire application
• See high level views of your entire application
• Understand relationships and dependencies between system elements
• See data and transformation flows
• Visualize user interfaces
• Analyze jobs and associated JCL
• Scope Business Rules Mining (BRM) projects and identify valuable business rules in your code

How it works

Transoft evolveIT is a graphical Windows workbench that combines many features designed to maximize ease of use and productivity. The heart of the product is the evolveIT asset inventory. This is in effect a model of the entire application, including not only the COBOL code but also all the other elements of the application, such as JCL.

This total model of the entire application, together with comprehensive reports and excellent graphical outputs, enables the IT professional, even with no prior knowledge of the application, to rapidly understand its structure, visualize and quantify the impact of any planned code changes and identify potential problems.

Tackling key IT missions

Transoft evolveIT is able to assist in a wide range of key IT missions, including:

• Improving application understanding & documentation
• Increasing resource flexibility and utilization
• Improving maintenance fix times and quality, while reducing maintenance costs
• Improving project planning and budgeting
• Delivering business process improvements sooner without extra resource
• Improving risk management - evaluating scope, time, cost and risk of change.
• Application re-structuring and consolidation to reduce maintainability and operational costs
• Application migration and integration to reduce costs and improve customer functionality and service.

Transoft's Application Migration, Application Modernization and Application Integration tools and solutions can operate in conjunction with Application Understanding. They provide you with a comprehensive approach for the evolution of new solutions from your existing applications throughout the entire lifecycle of these applications.

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