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Values

To control the application risks

At the heart of the activity, business applications are essential to business success. They are a true heritage to be preserved and secured. In addition to operational failures and maintenance difficulties, CIOs are also concerned by the loss of business knowledge. Embedded in an ageless code, business know-how is gradually becoming inaccessible.
Tempted by an overhaul, IT decision-makers also measure the extent and risks: uncertainties, blunders, rejected by users unwilling to change...

To gain on agility

As much as environments become increasingly uncertain, business performance also requires responsiveness. The main applications must fulfill the business requirements as quickly as these last ones frequently change. Key to success, the agility that involves two steps: to rebuild the business knowledge hidden in aging applications and then to implement them in changing environments.

To reduce the budget

If they significantly contribute to the creation of value, the aging business applications also cripple the IT budgets. Elaborate maintenance, support, training of new users as technical resources… their TCO (total cost of ownership) costs a fortune!

As their applications cannot be replaced by standard business software, CIOs often reject the idea of a revamping because of its high cost.

To maintain, revamp or modernize?  The economic equation that compares earnings, risks and TCO of the different options tends often to favor application modernization.

Blu Age automatically converts your aging programs in new upgradable and more maintainable applications.  Software robots accelerate the modernization of the application and guarantee its quality.

Benefits

Operational solution to modernize your applications quickly and inexpensively, Blu Age Application Modernization allows you to:

• Reduce the budgets of modernization and ownership of  your applications
• Ensure quality through automation of code and tests generation
• Reduce the risks pertaining to applications at the heart of the business performance
• Benefit from the flexibility of new environments with minimal change for users
• Capitalize on business assets embedded into the applications to enhance them
• Strengthen the agility of your applications
• Free yourself from technology dependencies by taking advantage of innovations

Features

Reduce the cost of modernization

Modernize from 2000 to 4000 lines of code per day and per user.

Reduce the cost of modernization

The average cost of modernization of a line is less than 0.50€

Reduce the cost of ownership of your applications

Once modernized, the application has a more advantageous structure of cost for maintenance and enhancement.

Make your processes agile

Restore and manipulate your process through UML2 models automatically and entirely processed in applications throughout their lifecycle.

Unify your applications

Modernize your legacy applications so that they can be maintained and operated by your resources working in Java JEE as well as . Net.

Ensure a consistent quality

PLCs development guarantee the quality of your modernized applications from your standard architecture and coding.

Create sustainable applications

Preserve your applications from obsolescence thanks to the MDA technologies implemented by Blu Age (agile architecture and rules preservation). These ones ensure the equivalence between the functionalities represented by the models and the programs executing them.

Free from technology dependencies

Free yourself from upstream (development) and downstream (technology and framework) technology dependencies.

Blu Age Architecture

Blu Age Application Modernization is available either as a product or as a service.

Supported Architectures

The technological families that Blu Age Modernization accepts are the following:

Source Languages

Cobol, PACBASE, Natstar, Powerbuilder, PL/SQL, Java JEE, .Net

Source Databases

Hierarchical bases, indexed files, denormalized relational bases, relational bases

Final Frameworks

• Presentation: Spring MVC, Flex, ASPX, JSF RI, JSF MyFaces, JSF IBM, Struts, HTML5,
• Reporting: Jasper, BIRT,
• Services and web services: Spring, EJB3, .Net 4.5, CXF, Axis, WCF,
• Inference and rules engine: Drools, BPEL engine,
• Data Access: Hibernate, OpenJPA, Microsoft Entity Framework, HQL, JQL, SQL, stocked procedures,
• Component Integration: APIs Java integration, APIs .Net integration,
• Security and authentification: Spring security.

Final Databases

Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, Informix, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Derby

Final Application Servers

Websphere, Oracle application server, Weblogic, Glassfish, JBoss, Jonas, WASCE, Tomcat, IIS.