The legacy challenge facing business today.Many organizations are trying to do more with less. But in a resource-constrained environment, that is becoming increasingly difficult. That is why the need for application portfolio modernization has never been greater. In many organizations, legacy applications are consuming anywhere from 66 to 85 percent of the IT budget.1

IT execs can no longer afford to spend the bulk of their budgets on simply supporting and maintaining legacy applications. They need to innovate, but that can’t happen if all their resources are going toward custom-coded systems that no

1. Computerworld, Oct. 2009

longer provide a competitive edge. Application modernization is now the most important software initiative for IT decision-makers, supplanting previous hot-button initiatives like eBusiness and cloud computing.

What is application re-architecture? Application re-architecture is your key to a successful application portfolio modernization, helping you reduce custom code by 60 percent or more and operational costs by as much as 85 percent. Application re-architecture enables you to dramatically cut the amount of custom code in your legacy portfolio without changing workflows or the way you do business.

“IT organizations are spending anywhere from 66 to 85 percent of the IT budget on maintaining applications leaving little room for enhancements or growth.”

—Computerworld, Oct. 2009

Dell re-architect solutionDell Re-architect Solution enables customers to migrate business critical legacy systems to modern agile platforms, delivering the highest quality outcomes across the entire modernization journey. The end result enables strategic growth, reduces operational costs and restores business agility.

Dell Analyzer allows you to discover

the relationships between your assets:

data sets, application code, use cases

and business processes.

Dell Repository provides a collaborative

and interactive environment to manage

your assets.

Dell Analyzer

Dell Repository

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Key benefits The Dell Re-architect Solution modernizes legacy applications from costly and rigid mainframes to agile environments to give you a competitive edge. It doesn’t just modernize the code, it also migrates the data—assuring that all of the features your organization depends on remain intact and complete. It drastically decreases the amount of custom code by streamlining and re-architecting its functionality into a service oriented, cloud ready and flexible application. It delivers a better quality outcome than custom code development at half the cost and with the highest success rate.

How does it work? The software provides a suite of products that assist and automate the critical tasks involved in all aspects of a re-architecture project: • Repository and collaboration—ensure

that during any stage of the project all information is available, up-to-date and presented to all stakeholders of the process. Assets are tracked, changes are captured and revision and sign-off happen right in the tool

• Business analysis—contains advanced tools such as video capturing, business process and use case modeling and deep linking to capture a complete picture of how users are interacting with an application

• Code analysis—parses and analyzes the source code using pattern recognition, identifies duplicate code blocks through fuzzy matching and calculates the interdependencies between all of its components

• Data analysis—extracts a rich legacy domain model from the data schemas, data records and related source code

• Enhancement design—analyzes and describes the business enhancements that will be incorporated in the new design and identifies the assets they will impact

• Application design—models several key design elements and allows end-users to review wireframes of the modernized functionality before they are implemented

The Dell Re-architect Solution modernizes legacy applications

from costly and rigid mainframes to agile environments. It

doesn’t just modernize the code, it also migrates the data –

assuring that all of the features your organization depend on

remain intact and complete.

Dell Re-architect Solution

Legacy language experience

COBOL, RPG, PL1, Natural, VB, Mumps, Maper, Assembler and more

Projects at a glance

Over 30 successful projects with greater than 100 million lines of code completed

Industries served

Local, State and Provincial Governments

Oil and Gas in Canada and the USA

Retail and Commercial Systems

Financial Services & Insurance

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Dell Data Workbench allows for the

design and continuous migration of

data throughout the project.

Dell Code Generator utilizes the

Designer models to produce high

quality customizable code.

...as well as interface models that

describe and display how a user

interacts with the application.

Dell Designer enables the creation of

desired Domain models for data and

logic...

Dell Designer

Dell Code Generator

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The Dell Data Workbench migrates data continuously and in parallel with application re-architecture.DW

DataWorkbench

The Dell Code Generator generates code from Dell Designer into a service-based architecture, boosting productivity and quality.

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The Dell Designer creates modern application models based on legacy requirements discovered with Dell Analyzer, and incorporate necessary enhancements.

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The Dell Analyzer reverse engineers requirements by capturing how users actually use the software and discovering the connections between application functionality, code and data in an interactive and collaborative environment.Analyzer

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The Dell Repository enables companies to catalog and understand all the assets in their legacy applications by creating a 360-degree view of application usage, including how people operate these applications, what data they use, and how your applications have been modified over the years.

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Dell Re-Architect Solution products

• Data migration—integrates domain model changes with the actual legacy data records, reporting on any discrepancies and producing the modernized database

• Code generation—is used to jump start the implementation process by producing full functional code components based on several design elements. It is fully extensible to match the needed architectural and implementation patterns

Ensure modernization success with Dell Dell Re-architect Solution enables customers to migrate business-critical legacy systems to modern agile platforms, delivering the highest quality outcomes across the entire modernization journey. The end-result enables strategic growth, reduces operational costs and restores business agility.

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