Transoft
Application Understanding
IT management is constantly faced with the need to improve the functionality and operation of its existing legacy systems. This may mean replacing, migrating, modernizing or integrating them with other existing applications or new more agile customer facing applications developed in modern technologies. Whatever your goals, it is essential to understand what your existing applications do and the options available to meet these goals.
A thorough understanding of your existing applications is an essential prerequisite for successful migration, modernization and integration projects. A Transoft Pathfinder Project provides this understanding, the options, recommended solutions, technical issues, risk mitigation plans, business continuity plans and project plans together with timescales and costs.
Transoft Pathfinder Projects
“We know where we would like to be. All we have to do now is figure out how to get there.”
The purpose of a Transoft Pathfinder is to gain a full understanding of your software assets as they currently stand, the current and future requirements of the business, and a detailed exploration of all of the possible options to assemble an IT environment that will best support those requirements. It also covers current staff skill sets and identifies any areas where there are new requirements that may need to be addressed.
A Transoft Pathfinder Project is centred on a series of interactive workshops that will involve Transoft’s specialist consultants and the relevant personnel from your organisation. The purpose of the workshops is to address, in advance, all aspects of the application migration, modernization or integration projects being planned. The exact composition and timing of the workshops varies from client to client depending on the nature of the applications and the specific goals of the planned project. Types of workshop include:
- Application & Architecture
- Migration requirements
- Modernization requirements
- Integration requirements
- Testing
- Project Management
- Risk Review.
Transoft's Application Understanding toolset
In addition to the workshops, Transoft has various application understanding tools. The Transoft evolveIT toolset, in particular, can be used to aid documentation and understanding of COBOL-centric applications, and is used on Transoft Pathfinder Projects where appropriate.
A key concern of IT management is the ability to accurately establish the scope, timescale, cost and risk associated with any change to core applications. Transoft evolveIT provides this information quickly and accurately because it uniquely combines a total model of the entire application and excellent graphical outputs - in addition to comprehensive reports.
Transoft evolveIT is able to assist in the following key IT missions:
- Change Management - scope, time, cost and risk of change
- Impact Analysis - drilling down to application assets impacted
- Data Mining - determining change to data items
- Understanding & documentation
- Application re-structuring & partitioning.
Transoft Pathfinder Report
From the Transoft Pathfinder Project a comprehensive roadmap is produced based on the results of these detailed investigations. The roadmap is presented in the form of a Transoft Pathfinder Report and includes sections on:
- Investigation findings
- Options available
- Recommended solutions
- Technical issues
- Business continuity plans
- Risk mitigation plans
- Project plans
- Timescales, and
- Costs.
Typically a Transoft Application Understanding Pathfinder Project is a precursor to Transoft Application
Migration,
Modernization or
Integration projects, with Transoft either providing both tools and services, or simply the tools for you to undertake the implementation. This provides you with a complete solution for the evolution of new solutions from your existing applications across the entire lifecycle of the applications.
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