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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outdated legacy software assets to bring them up to modern computing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.
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