Introduction

evolveIT is a PC tool that enables analysts and programmers to understand complex COBOL applications. evolveIT models every aspect of an application from the screens that users see down to the manipulation of individual data items deep inside programs. A variety of interactive diagrams, reports and viewers enable applications to be understood, documented, maintained and modernized more effectively.

Features

• analyze relationships between all application elements
• find missing application source and redundant code
• live documentation including control and data flows
• detailed impact analysis and data categorization
• multiple interactive reports and graphical views

Benefits

• 25% increase in productivity
• 20% reduction in project timescales
• 20% reduction in application support costs
• improved maintenance quality
• increase staff portability
• reduce support risk

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With the falling number of COBOL programmers and the continuing loss of skills and application knowledge, evolveIT provides essential support to business critical applications. New analysts get up to speed more rapidly, outsourcers take on new applications more effectively and existing analysts are far more effective - often counteracting smaller team size.

Features

• Ignores non executed code
• Build a vocabulary of business terms
• Import an existing business vocabulary
• Hide non relevant processing
• Traces flows across system not just individual programs
• Highlight source code to show rules already documented
• Place reminder marks and pointers for later analysis
• Add ignore marks to analysis trees
• Export rules in many formats
• Designed for use both on small and very large projects

Benefits

• 500-1000% times faster than manual alternatives
• Achieve consistent quality of analysis
• Reduces need for senior analyst time
• Eliminates analysis of dead ends and incorrect logic paths
• Offers real flexibility for future rule re-use
• Helps teams work efficiently together

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As business comes under increasing pressure to respond to change more rapidly, both existing systems and the development process surrounding them often stand in the way of responsive change. emergeIT starts to bridge the gap between business change and IT change. Business rules can be found, documented and managed effectively in the source code or they can be extracted and re-used in business rules engines, service oriented architectures and other environments.