LEGACY MODERNIZATION - QAT Genesis

Does Your Business Face the Legacy Challenge?

• Are you being asked to do more with less?
• Does your modernization strategy add business value?
• Does your software change fast enough for the business?

Having an effective legacy modernization strategy is essential to every enterprise. To remain competitive in the marketplace, it is critical that applications be customer centric and agile so they may respond quickly to market, customer, and business demands. Although organizations who build applications with CA Gen have a distinct advantage because of its' multi-platform capabilities, this doesn't exclude these applications from the challenges of legacy modernization. The user interfaces and the code structure of our legacy Gen applications still require attention in order to prepare them for new platforms. Organizations are under continuous pressure to reduce costs and improve performance, making them increasingly reluctant to pay for modernization projects that do nothing more than simply transform the application to the web. This short-sided modernization approach adds little business value and costs precious time, money and resources that could otherwise be spent on business priorities.

Not only are CA Gen development teams being asked to modernize their legacy applications with more sophisticated and productive web interfaces, but business users are demanding more agility and flexibility from their applications than ever before in order to help them stay competitive and adapt to constant change.

The business value represented by these legacy applications is easily recognized and any modernization approach must recognize and fully leverage that value. QAT has a deep understanding of the issues organizations face with their legacy systems and offers a unique approach to modernization that helps IT and the business to close the gap between what the business needs and what IT delivers.

 

QAT GENESIS – THE ART OF LEGACY MODERNIZATION

QAT Genesis is a software and services approach to modernize, integrate and/or enhance CA Gen applications. QAT Genesis does this by incrementally transforming the applications into modern web applications that provide high business value features to the organization with less risk, time and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Consider the fact that all modern management theories place heavy emphasis on business process and its management. Despite this emphasis, business process has mainly been locked away in the technology of our legacy applications. In other words, business process gets developed into the application code and the management of the business process becomes part of the traditional application life cycle.

One of the core concepts of QAT Genesis is to free the business process from the code and make it the central focus and the basic building block of the modern business system.

Based on this concept, QAT Genesis uses sophisticated business process automation in order to rapidly modernize legacy applications and, at the same time, add new high value business features that enable the business to realize significant returns from the modernization. The business will have the control to manage changes in their work process by configuring their application software instead of sending every change back through the traditional development cycle. IT departments will be more aligned with the needs of the business and will have the tools to rapidly deliver what the business needs.

Reducing risk to the business is a major benefit of QAT Genesis. Risk is reduced in three ways. First, it provides modernization in short-term increments, making it possible to pause if the budget or resources are under pressure. Second, it enables the business with the technology to provide for itself rather than locking it into a long term consulting engagement. Lastly, it allows the most appropriate technology to be integrated into the application based on both the skills of the development group and the capabilities of the various technologies. For example, CA Gen is outstanding in many ways, but it isn't always the best tool to use in every case. QAT Genesis offers the freedom to integrate other technology as needed in order to minimize the technical risk and maximize flexibility.

QAT Genesis is an art because each modernization is unique and the results can be beautiful. Carrying that a step further, there is no magic formula and the best results come with experience in applying the right balance of tools and techniques. In the case of QAT Genesis, that means knowing when to apply each solution and to what degree.

Most importantly, QAT Genesis delivers true modernization on a realistic budget so you can accomplish your legacy modernization goals.

QAT Genesis is an effective combination of services and software automation.

Software

• QAT WebDaptive – Development / Runtime Web Framework
• Agility BPM™ – Business Process Automation and Orchestration
• QAT DDM – Automated Table Maintenance
• QAT Wizard – RAD for CA Gen
• QAT Publisher – Publishing Reports and Other Information
• QAT Security – Application Security

Services

• Solution Mapping – Mapping Legacy Application Elements to QAT Genesis
• Training – QAT Software Training
• Process Development – Agility BPM™ Process Development and Mentoring
• Custom Gen Automation – Custom Services to Automate Model Changes

Modernization Results

The QAT Genesis modernization process results in applications that have not only been modernized in the traditional sense, but also made more open and agile at the same time. Business and IT are more aligned and far more productive as a team by allowing the business to control the work processes and IT to control the database and system integration.

A core concept of QAT Genesis is to introduce business process automation within the modernized application. This is a powerful solution that enables the business to enhance and change their application in significant ways without relying on IT for every change. The modernized application suddenly becomes more flexible for the business and the cost of the projects are more aligned with the benefits.

Why QAT?

QAT is an expert in the CA Gen product. We take pride in being associated with this product from its early days as IEF through its days as Composer, COOL:Gen, Advantage Gen, AllFusion Gen to its current CA Gen version. When selecting QAT for your legacy modernization project, you get:

Knowledge: A deep understanding of Gen, SOA, and web technologies, such as Java, JavaScript, AJAX, .Net, XML, HTML, DHTML and CSS gives QAT the knowledge to help our clients excel with their CA Gen modernization projects.

Methodology: Effective leveraging of our proprietary and proven methodology to parse a legacy application and map the right modernization technology with each part of the application for the fastest and most effective modernization possible.

Automation: Leveraging our unmatched set of automation tools streamlines the transformation process.

Commitment: Continuous improvement initiatives with an obsession to align with customer objectives