How to Benefit from Today’s Technology for Future
Use
Overview
Legacy systems and applications represent substantial investments to
the corporate world. Investments in coding, support and infrastructure
represent significant portions of the IT budget of most companies. Realizing
the true potential of the investment in these legacy systems has always
been a pipe dream to most Information System Managers. The only realities
of the legacy systems have been that they cannot be replaced, with IT
personnel in short supply (or in the case of CICS Cobol programmers,
non-existent) the cost to maintain these systems is skyrocketing and
the End-Users are getting tired of character based applications that
look like a throwback to the ‘70’s because that is when they
were first written!!!
Enter into the brave new world of WEB-Enabled legacy applications and
watch the issues of End-User satisfaction and software personnel availability
vanish. With the implementation of a WEB browser based interface to
standard SNA/3270 and CICS applications the true potential of the legacy
applications can be achieved.
Our approach to WEB-Enabling Legacy Applications involves identifying
the critical processes and rethinking them from a WEB browser perspective.
It starts with the legacy host capabilities and defines the methods
processes that need to be implemented to achieve the desired goal of
WEB-Enabling the Legacy Applications.
In this seminar you will learn how to identify the critical processes
needed, define their values, generate “out-of-the-box” thinking
about solutions and rethink the process requirements for WEB-Enabling.
You will explore the benefits of using an end-to-end solution that provides
structure and stability while offering a robust and dynamic development
environment.
Questions Answered
- Why is Modernizing and WEB-Enabling Legacy Applications critical?
- Can Modernizing be cost effective?
- Why not just rewrite it all in C++?
- What kind of project team do I need for WEB-Enabling projects?
- How do I train the project team?
- What 3rd party products are available?
- What is screen scraping?
- What alternatives exist to screen scraping?
- How much time do I spend analyzing the current processes?
- Should project members be full time?
- What are problems and pitfalls and how do I avoid them?
- What are the critical success factors?
Who Should Attend
- E-Business Project Managers
- E-Business Project Teams
- Business Managers
- Organization Development Executives
- Project Managers
- IS Executives
- IS Managers
Agenda
Concepts and Terminology
- WEB-Enabling concept and principles
- Guiding principles for successful WEB-Enabling Legacy Applications
What is Application Modernization
- Modernizing the Interface
- Modernizing the Architecture
Application Considerations
- Coding Concepts
- Rules and Issues
Network Issues and Considerations
- Protocols and data
- Usage and design
Screen Scraping
- What to expect
- What not to expect
The Real Deal
- Concepts behind The Client
The Client
- Extensible Dynamic Markup Language
- JAVA™ Class Library Server
- JAVA™ thin client
EDML
- Overview
- Usage
- Technical description
JAVA™ Class Library Server
JAVA™ Thin Client
Planning the Project
- Resource Identification and Matching
- Identify System Requirements
- Identify Existing System Resources
- Match Requirements with Existing resources
- Project team selection and training
- Management education
- Project deliverables definition
- Methodology customization
- Project initiation document
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