Understanding where you stand

Properly aligning business needs with the allocation of technical resources is a significant challenge to CIOs and senior technology managers. The challenge is to innovate and deliver high returns on IT investment while maintaining existing operational service levels. Adding to this complexity are shrinking budgets, unexpected requirements and the long-term fate and state of legacy systems.

eCube brings a wealth of experience to the assessment process, insuring that you take the actions that are best suited to your organization's goals. The resulting deliverables align business needs with legacy systems life cycle management in an actionable business blueprint. Whether your goal is to lower costs or improve operations, this blueprint will identify capabilities that legacy systems should have and contribute in order to meet your business goals -- as well as help you decide if eCube is the right firm to help you get there.

Improving system health and effectiveness

Remediation, as a modernization discipline, is defined as a collective set of tool-enabled disciplines that support or provide for the re-factoring, stabilization and improvement in the packaging and design of existing software systems. Remediation, unlike the concept of architecture transformation, delivers application improvements and upgrades within the context of the existing architecture.

This last aspect of remediation is an important consideration because remediation does not “modernize” existing functional, data or technical architectures. Rather, remediation is based on the concept of significantly improving and evolving programs or systems within the context of existing software architectures.

Taking valuable assets forward

Modernization includes moving and/or migrating applications based on heritage technologies into contemporary technologies, platforms and languages. In addition, Modernization includes the capture, reuse and redeployment of existing data and business rules in object based languages, such as Java or C#, new data models, services oriented architectures and model driven architectures. eCube delivers the benefits of Modernization as well as related capabilities that organizations can employ to derive the most value from existing software assets over the long-term

Modernization Benefits

Modernization offers alternatives to development and package deployment projects and also provides ways to augment replacement initiatives through the reuse and migration of existing data and application architectures. Modernization:

• Streamlines the time and costs associated with eliminating or migrating obsolete technologies and platforms.
• Lowers the risks associated with deploying replacement systems based on the reuse of proven functionality extracted from existing systems.
• Reduces the costs and timeframes of migrating data into target data architectures, relational databases and package environments while improving the integrity of the end result.
• Supports business unit consolidation, mergers and acquisition initiatives through data and application architecture consolidation and integration.
• Enables the redeployment of proven, stable functionality in SOA, model driven and other agile architectures