Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software is defined as "software that solves an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem) and usually enterprise software is written using Enterprise Software Architecture."¹ It used to be that the cost of building and maintaining this kind of proprietary software was prohibited  to only large organizations, but the advent of Service Oriented Architectures have enabled smaller organizations to tap into Enterprise Software applications to support their entire business enterprise.

Since many business enterprises have similar organizations and systems, Service Oriented Architectures can enable most companies to consume or provide enterprise software applications to augment their business functions. This integration with SOA avoids the costly development of tools to modify the proprietary programs for their specific enterprise.  Enterprise software systems are programs that still have some potential inherent value but that were developed years ago using early versions of COBOL, PL/1, Fortran or other languages.

With NXTera 5.0 and NXTware EV, eCube Systems provides an Evolutionary approach to integrating enterprise software with Web Services and XML. eCube calls this approach Enterprise Evolution - an intelligent systematic and phased solution that  makes legacy software evolution the extension of technology equity. This enterprise software modernization process is based on the evolution of existing enterprise business logic and the integration/implementation of contemporary platforms, such as .NET, J2EE, Web Services, HTTP/Servlets and XML.

Enterprise Evolution employs a phased approach called ARM (Assessment, Remediation and Modernization) so that the users can continue to use the existing enterprise software solution while phasing in components of the modernized system. As part of the assessment phase, Enterprise Evolution refactors the legacy software to defend it from “software hardening” the growing inflexibility of legacy systems and enabling it to participate as an enterprise service provider.

Enterprise Software Modernization has a cost, but it shouldn't be performance.  In many cases IT organization are finding that developing enterprise solutions that are used to integrate  legacy systems together have created a bottleneck that severely impacts performance. A true software modernization strategy embraces a commitment to steady improvement in performance and the fulfillment of service level goals.

Correspondingly, risk is the something every business executive has to deal with.  Whether a company decides to “stay put”, use their existing enterprise software, or modernize, there is risk involved. eCube is committed to balancing the risk, with proven technology, proven enterprise solutions and software modernization methods that insure the value of IT efforts moving into the future.  Enterprise Software modernization means that successful applications can be maintained, renewed, evolved, transformed or harvested to speed new development in such a way as to assure the ability of every enterprise software solution to meet its commitments to the business and exceed expectation to reliability.