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Cost Structure

Modernizing an application is not an end in itself. It's about complex technology/architecture upgrades at the best cost and with the shortest delays, yielding an agile application that allows for the fastest business evolutions and the lowest possible maintenance costs.

Blu Age wants to meet your budgetary constraints by offering a reduced cost structure for the modernization, maintenance, and future developments of your applications. Blu Age offers to modernize old applications at the best price. Blu Age uses automation software that extract business rules and business functions of your legacy application from the original source code. These extracted artifacts are used to automatically regenerate your legacy applications on a modern architecture and make any future functional evolutions much more simpler.

Blu Age solutions are available on Eclipse either for your Legacy modernization projects or for the future life cycle of your business applications once modernized.

Capitalize on the business management knowledge of your legacy by creating the right economic conditions for an efficient modernization with budget reduction by nearly 40 to 50% compared to standard methods and tooling.

Productivity and Quality

Blu Age offers software that allow you to automate either your modernization projects and/or any of your application development and which are integrated on a single and unique platform to complete each need of professionals involved in application life cycle management.

The objective is to use automation to eliminate most of the tasks in relation with software/code development activities. In order to let the software designers, the engineers, the architects and user representatives being focused on the definition and implementation of business processes.

These automates increases drastically:

• The productivity: in automating most of all the technical/development tasks,
• The code quality: in enabling permanent measurement of the quality of the generated code,
• The usability thanks to the use of a continuous integration tool chain,
• The application alignment to the business practices: in using the "Model = Code" equivalence,
• The agility: in using an integrated solution for the whole application life-cycle,
• The application's everlasting: in enabling architectures changes without impacting the business rules models.

Blu Age is both an Integrated Development Environment based on MDA principles and a continuous integration platform for your modernization, development, application maintenance, and database management projects.
Blu Age Legacy Application Modernization allows the modernizing of between 2000 and 4000 lines of code per day and per user.

Agility and Process Preservation

Decision for launching modernization project is not only due to obsolescence of the technology on which the legacy application is relying. But what is ever part of the decision is the added value of the business processes and rules that are supported by the legacy application.

Blu Age allows for the smooth and lasting transmission of functional know-how between the various groups and generations by freeing the business applications of their technological burdens. Thanks to the Blu Age Reverse Modeling and Forward Engineering tools, you can restore, manage, and evolve your processes without depending on specific technical expertise.

Thanks to Blu Age, models and application code are equivalent, each available in a format that is made to be user-friendly for all your teams. Make the most of a unified platform that enhances the agility of your new and modernized processes thanks to:

• impact analysis,
• model debugging,
• traceability between business requirements and management rules.

Technological Independence and Durable Architectures

Blu Age automates the coding for your applications and frees you from technological dependencies. Indeed, all of the Blu Age products allow you to modernize, evolve, and develop your business applications according to your own architectural choices and with no technological dependence and no proprietary runtime.

Thanks to Blu Age's and to the 'Code = Model' principle, you can let your architectures evolve in accordance with your needs (web, rich client, smartphone, Ipad, Cloud) and without having to modify your models. Design it once, generate the application for the architectures that you would like, and regenerate several time at no extra cost on a different architecture at any moment thereby keeping the technology updated.