Sextant Business Solutions Speeds Up Legacy Application Analysis with Release of Decomp 4.05.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2003 Decomp version 4.05 represents the first process and tools set to effectively reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. business knowledge from legacy application systems Sextant sextant, instrument for measuring the altitude of the sun or another celestial body; such measurements can then be used to determine the observer's geographical position or for other navigational, surveying, or astronomical applications. Business Solutions, an enterprise application software engineering firm, today released version released version - release 4.05 of its legacy application analysis process and tools set -- Decomp(TM). The unique process, which provides organizations with the ability to effectively manage, control and improve their business systems in new and existing environments, includes several new features that make the task of legacy application analysis faster, more complete and cost effective. New features in version 4.05 include a major redesign re·de·sign tr.v. re·de·signed, re·de·sign·ing, re·de·signs To make a revision in the appearance or function of. re of the business process/business rules editor, Detailed Deengineering; a new application source code archive and research facility, System Inventory; and a new legacy application system complexity analysis function, Code Statistics. "With the release of Decomp 4.05, we continue to demonstrate our expanded focus on enterprise-level re-engineering re-engineering - The examination and modification of a system to reconstitute it in a new form and the subsequent implementation of the new form. http://erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/brant/sre. and re-automation products and services," said Steve v. t. 1. To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve. Fogarty, president of Sextant Business Solutions Ltd. "Decomp provides a consistent framework and approach to analyzing and managing highly integrated manual and automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. processes. Our approach to understanding complex business systems directly benefits organizations by reducing the cost of application software ownership by effectively eliminating redundant systems and improving the serviceability (system) serviceability - The ease with which corrective maintenance or preventative maintenance can be performed on a system (e.g. by a hardware service technician). Higher serviceability improves availability and reduces service cost. Serviceability is one component of RAS. of replacement application and integrated systems." Decomp 4.05 is designed to help IT application managers, application architects and chief information officers with their projects where legacy application functionality needs to be replicated, application support knowledge is limited, subject matter expertise is missing and/or and/or conj. Used to indicate that either or both of the items connected by it are involved. Usage Note: And/or is widely used in legal and business writing. current application documentation is incomplete. Since its release, Decomp has proven successful with organizations in mature industries that have several generations of business process automation, and has been used to analyze and deengineer more than 20 million lines of legacy source code inside organizations in the financial, insurance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and government industries. New Features in Decomp 4.05 Detailed Deengineering -- Provides enhanced business transaction definition to rational UseCase form with ordered and nested events, initiating actions, expected results and exception results, and -- Integrates the legacy source reference providing an audit trail from current transactions to current events back to the legacy application source code. System Inventory -- Encapsulates and secures legacy source code in the scope of deengineering project, -- Parses legacy source code to easily analyze process and control flow, -- Enables event research by identifying and tracing transaction attributes (data and/or action) though legacy code, and -- Manages and records research work in Sessions Definitions allowing the analyst to save and resume research treads as well as document events and business rules. Code Statistics -- Generates a Legacy Function Point score after automatically evaluating key code attributes like computes, edits, validations, control flow, file operations and size. Decomp 4.05 licensing is value priced at $132,000 and includes comprehensive implementation, training and hands-on hands-on adj. Involving active participation; applied, as opposed to theoretical: "We're involved in hands-on operations, pulling levers, pushing buttons" Arthur R. Taylor. project support. Enterprise, component and project use licensing is also available. Decomp is available in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of . About Sextant Business Solutions Sextant Business Solutions is an enterprise application software engineering firm that specializes in extracting critical business and process knowledge from core legacy systems. This process, known as Decomp, allows organizations to leverage existing functionality and knowledge from current systems to bridge the gap to new technologies and solutions. Decomp's core benefit is that it provides business rule identification allowing organizations to gain a deeper understanding of transactions and events that are inherent in current legacy systems and architecture, therefore simplifying integration of future technologies and providing more reliable maintenance structures and patterns. Organizations benefit from a lower cost of application ownership through this process. For more information about Sextant Business Solutions, visit www.sextantsolutions.com or call 888-739-8268. |
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