Losing Valuable Assets

All commercial COTS packages have to be customized and modified to meet the specific needs of it users. In the real world, custom modification starts with the initial acquisition and continues un-abated until the application is retired. What segments of the code are redundant/ How well have the documentation been maintained of the years? Whether the goal is to replace the system with a new COTS package, or build a new solution every company have to deal with issues that challenge their understanding of the applications, such as:

• Vendor mergers, acquisitions and the product life-cycles
• Customizations done by 3rd party consultants and contractors
• Retirement of key employees
• Complexity

eCube helps companies overcome these issue and retrieve the value looked on legacy COTS assets. Using leading edge technology, industry standards and best practices you can be confident in the legacy COTS recovery services provided by eCube systems.

Recovering Valuable Assets

The legacy COTS recovery will use automated tooling to decompile existing binary applications and examine IT architecture. The process will extract the components that encompass the physical production system and identify the interrelationships of those components. With all of the details stored in a meta repository. The resulting data can be used to reconstruct source code, define business processes and re-establish functional documentation.

.The goals of the phase II assessment include the following.

• Examine all relevant aspects of targeted application, data and technical architecture
• Use automated tools to fully deconstruct and populate existing, in-scope IT artifacts in an open, standards-based meta-repository
• Employ sophisticated analysis to implement remediation if required
• Provide and replace lost source code, documentation and general application understanding

 

The key benefit to this approach is that it provides unambiguous findings of all aspects of the application environment. This approach ensures that program and system risks or architectural weaknesses are addressed as part of any modernization effort. It also provides a way to simulate modernization solutions without actually implementing them.

Test the value proposition

Contact us for a free evaluation to see if these services will provide you with the benefits and cost savings you need. Our analysts will work with you to develop a Return on Investment (ROI) calculation that accurately reflects your situation and the various solution scenarios possible.

With this analysis, which establishes ROI, Total Cost of Ownership and other values, you will be able to understand what the best solution is for you and what it is worth to your business in real dollars. If the numbers are compelling, we'll work with you to further define what the right solution looks like and to develop a plan that reflects your needs, benefits and the returns required. Call us to schedule some time with an analyst.