NGSET : Application Renovation Services

Application Renovation Services

NGSET´s Application Renovation Services help customers recover the value of their Software and to leverage the investments made over the years in their business critical applications.

Benefits
Why Renovate Software?
Software Renovation Steps

Benefits

NGSET´s Renovation Services bring significant benefits to IT organizations, such as:

Evolutionary processes keeping risks and schedule under control

Fast delivery of results through automation, such as elimination of useless components, reducing the complexity of applications, normalization

Exhaustive application system documentation

Progressive transfer of technology to customer team

The net result of Renovation is leveraging the huge software asset investment

Extending the life of applications
Decreasing maintenance costs

Why renovate Software?

Most business critical applications running on a mainframe have been written long ago, and have undergone significant maintenance. As new business requirements and new IT architectures appear, as application knowledge fades, and as maintenance costs grow, corporations are facing the following:

Renovation is often the least expensive and the least risk-prone option.

Software Renovation Steps

This initial diagnostic provides a sound base for management to replace, to rewrite, or to renovate. NGSET has developed tools and methodologies that provide: Replacing the application, Rewriting it from scratch, Renovating it.

Reverse Engineering provides an inventory of the application system, identifies all components and relationships between components. It helps managing the real software asset, and understanding data and procedures.

Restructuration eliminates structural defects in programs, leading to slimmer and easier-to-maintain applications.

Restoration helps streamlining the structures of applications according to the meaning of functions, programs, data, and files.

Re-engineering helps reconstructing equivalent programs with new structures of data and procedures. It facilitates introducing new requirements in programs.

SIR, the NGSET Intranet Re-Documentation Server is a companion product to Renovation Services.