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Automated Software Modernization

Automated Software Modernization (ASM) is an effective technology for preserving and extending the service life of priceless business knowledge and processes (business rules) embedded in enterprise and mission-critical legacy systems. This website provides an overview of best practices, technologies and processes for the automated approach to information system modernization. It is a resource center and cookbook for conducting successful automated software modernization projects. With resource links to case studies, how-tos, explanation of government policy, links to standards bodies and organizations following best practices. It dispells the myths and tells the reality about this exciting discipline.

During the last 50 years, information processing systems have become the intellectual repositories for most business and government organizations. Today most organizations face the daunting challenge of how to cost effectively and rapidly update their installed base of outdated legacy software assets to bring them up to modern computing standareds. Delaying modernization brings organizational decay and erosion of business opportunity. The cost and risk of discarding older information systems and starting afresh is underestimated with direst consequences. Overlooked and all too often disparaged, automated software modernization has become a highly effective approach to legacy system modernization that is worthy of close examination.

Levels of automation exceeding 99.99% are now realistic for modernizing software applications, making ASM the first option of choice for many legacy system modernization projects. Following automated modernization to preserve the life of existing software assets, advanced development tools are available in modern languges into which the legacy systems are transformed to permanently lower the cost of software maintenance and accelerate integration and deployment of the modernized application into new target platforms, environments and architectures. While sometimes disparaged and often confused with translation, the automated approach to information system modernization is fast becoming acknowledge as the most reliable and lowest-cost option for business system modernization currently available.

A model-driven approach to information system modernization is the most effective way for organizations to keep in step with the fast-paced age of e-business, e-communication, e-organizations, and in the case of the military, e-warfare.