Business case
Picture this…You are the chief information officer of a successful corporation. Both you and your company are well respected for running an experienced, stable and efficient enterprise. In fact, your corporation is famous for its customer relations systems, its human resources systems, it financial reporting, its manufacturing operations, the list goes on.
You know that this efficiency is built on your IT environment. It is the machine that powers your enterprise, its engine, and the machine hums. But how quickly can your IT environment change direction? You have realized over recent years that IT can do more than run a corporation. It can be a strategic resource in opening new markets, capturing more market share and serving customers in new and exciting ways. You have realized that, though your products are built to the highest standards, they are no longer sufficiently differentiated from the competition. That customer individualization, online sales channels, after-sales service are increasingly important, as are the processes that support them.
You want to change your IT engine into a tool of change and corporate strategy implementation without losing its power, its reliability and the decades of corporate skills and knowledge that have been invested in them.
But you must do this without disrupting operations, without downtime, without huge re-investment. You must capture the years of experience built into your current systems and re-use this knowledge in an open, agile and flexible way.
The advantage is clear. IT can provide a huge return on investment to the corporation if it can harness the power and experience of decades in new and innovative ways. But the risks can be minimized.
Technology
Today’s technology allows you to open your systems at a pace and with a level of investment that suits you. Old user and customer interfaces can be redeployed using the latest graphical techniques in a matter of days. Multiple interfaces can be combined into a new user experience.
Even the millions of lines of code in your organization, state-of-the-art when written, can be analyzed and transformed into today’s state-of-the art, open and re-usable structures. Then these modernized applications are made available as components, modules or full applications to the latest automated business process management systems. You can harness the power of your IT, the accumulated success of maybe decades, to drive your organization’s business processes and provide that competitive edge.
IT terms
Resource code modernization; Web-enablement of mainframe data, application or legacy modernization; no rip & replace, Adabas goes SOA.
Products
webMethods ApplinX, webMethods EntireX, webMethods Enterprise Service Bus, CentraSite, webMethods ConnecX Adapters, webMethods Application Modernization Discovery Edition, webMethods Application Modernization Web Edition, webMethods Application Modernization SQL Edition, webMethods Application Modernization SOA Edition