Blu Age Velocity
Blu Age Velocity accelerates the transformation of your legacy applications. Transforming legacy procedural applications with Blu Age Velocity is fully automated and seamless. All transformation options are calculated in advance and driven by Blu Age Analyzer. As a result, a digital application based on REST API/AngularJS/SpringBoot/Velocity Framework is generated and ready to be deployed in your Cloud.
The Digital Challenge
350 billion lines of COBOL code still run many business systems around the world (Source: IBM - InterConnect 2016 - February 2016). Unfortunately, such legacy architectures and programming languages are not digital-ready. The digital world requires modern languages, like Java or .NET.
Blu Age is a technology that automates the transformation of your legacy business applications into full digital applications using the latest technological standards.
Blu Age Velocity framework, a key component of Blu Age Velocity
The Blu Age Velocity Framework supercharges the digital transformation of your procedural legacy applications (both code bases and data). Together with AngularJS and Spring Boot, it speeds up your transformation to digital and cloud-native technologies. The current version covers most existing COBOL variants (including generated COBOL like Pacbase or CA Gen) and most legacy data structures.
A fully automated transformation
Step 1. Import legacy code in Blu Age Analyzer and tag programs and data structure to define relevant work packages.
Step 2. Export tagged artifacts to Blu Age PLTC (Cobol 2 SpringBoot) to extract functional specifications from the work packages to UML models, generate Angular/SpringBoot base code from UML models, and package Java code using Maven and NPM.
Step 3: Export legacy data to the modernized data structure and load it on the targeted database, i.e. PostgreSQL.
Step 4: Deploy packaged applications on the cloud infrastructure of your choice, run functional tests for acceptance, and check code base compliance to your requested quality rating.
Step 2 to 4 are fully automated and and can be executed in a DevOps Integration Chain with Blu Age Velocity Silent version
Accelerates application transformation while maintaining quality
With the Blu Age Velocity, legacy applications written in COBOL or PL/1 are transformed at the speed and the cost of COBOL code replatforming, but instead provide high quality Java code.
The Blu Age Velocity Framework delivers projects 4 times faster at a lower cost than Blu Age projects delivered without the framework.
Low migration and development costs
The modernization cost per legacy line of code with the Velocity Framework remains below 0.5€ (excl. SIT & UAT) for onshore projects, and progressive maintenance costs are reduced by 30 to 50%.
Industrialized transformation
The fully automated transformation process can run in silent mode once the work packages have been defined by Analyzer.
Consistent and high quality code
The result of 10 years of continuous investment, Blu Age products generate consistent and high quality code.
“Like-for-like” modernization
Blu Age allows “like-for-like” modernization, avoiding complicated change management for end users. Your applications can evolve by updating the models and transforming those models into executable code.
Strategic business process optimization and sustainability
Blu Age extracts and optimizes your strategic business processes and returns hidden business knowledge in the form of UML2 models. With Blu Age, your business processes can gain agility and adopt your organization's digitalization requirements.
- Knowledge base covers COBOL and PL/1 languages and their technical architectures
- 100% automated Java code generation
- Integrated environment for analysis/modeling/generation in Eclipse
- Continuous integration chain to automate your modernization and functional testing
- Tools for automatic detection and validation of patterns
- Silent mode available