Modernization as a Service

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Cost of a single modernized line: 0.14US$ to 0.65US$
Productivity: 2,000 - 4,000 lines per day and per user
Planning: 1 to 2 million lines of modernized code per semester (per team of 5 people)
No runtime, No Blu Age dependency: The application is generated on the architecture of your choice without any Blu Age dependency
and without proprietary runtime
Target Architectures: Web, RIA, Cloud, Mobile

With a basic service offer, based on expertise acquired over many modernization projects, you can benefit from the advantages and functionalities that come with Blu Age Modernization. You can entrust us with your project, beginning with some preliminary steps of prototyping and financial evaluation, followed by modernization, all the while keeping our soliciting of your resources to a minimum.

The process BLU AGE works as follows

1 Blue Print : Duration 48 hours - Price offered

The Blue Print is an extraction of call trees and collaboration diagrams based on a sample of the programs of your PACBASE or Cobol application. The Blue Print gives you a quick example of how retro-specification works with Blu Age and to check its productivity before moving on to any application-specific parametrization.

2 Online sizing : Duration 48 hours - Price offered

An application for dimensionizing is available online at the following website: http://modernisation.netfective.com. It takes less than a minute of your time to fill in all the necessary information and allows us to give you an estimate of the budgets and the production timeline. In the next step which involves prototyping with real conditions, we can set up a price proposal.

3 Proof of Concept (prototyping with real conditions) : Duration 3 weeks - Price 19,500US$

A POC is a modernization, with a voluntary restriction of time and resources, of a representative sample of your application, generally a transaction that takes place over multiple screens with a complementary batch. The volume of code is generally between 15,000 and 30,000 lines. The POC is run as a modernization project and its resulting output is the same:

Source code for the modernized sample,
Quality analysis for the modernized code,
UML2 model extracted from the old application and used to produce the new application using automatic compiling,
Detailed functional specifications of the modernized sample,
A validation for iso-functionality and iso-ergonomics based on the case tests that are supplied,
A meeting to turn in the results,
A measure of the productivity (in thousands of lines of code per day and per user) and an estimate of the budget of the project (all costs included: project management, Blu Age licenses, documentation, code and database modernization, transferring of data, functional validation and integration).

The pre-requisites for a POC are:

A demonstration of the use cases used for the validation,
The source code (Cobol) or an extraction from the referential (PACBASE),
A dump from the given base along with the test data needed for the validation.

Our teams then produce the prototype autonomously.

4 Blue Print : Duration 6 months - Price evaluated during the prototype

All-inclusive modernization according to the conditions measured during the POC.
The application is delivered in such a way as to limit the change's behavior: iso-functional and iso-ergonomic.
Nevertheless, functional evolutions are quite feasible. The output is :

Source code for the modernized application,
Packaged and compiled code for the modernized application,
Quality analysis for the modernized code,
UML2 model extracted from the old application and used to produce the new application via automatic UML model compiling,
Detailed functional specifications of the modernized application,
Iso-functionality and iso-ergonomy validation based on the case tests that are supplied,
Technical and functional test validation and acceptance,
Integration test and validation,
Pre-production deployment,
Installation guide for the generated application.