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Interactive Delivery Model

ioSemantics’ automated program analysis capabilities are made available through a service platform. COBOL source is submitted to the platform along with semantically meaningful business terms that describe the input and output variables of the system. The platform enables a user to request a specific analysis to be performed that is related to the tasks of the day or the work at hand.

This interactive model supports ad hoc human analysis: providing context for and meaning of the question being asked. In other words, ioSemantics' Platform provides precisely the information that you need when you need it.

Trusted Collaborator

Legacy maintenance and modernization is the lion’s share of IT budgets. Helping to ensure legacy efforts are successful is what ioSemantics' Platform is built to accomplish.

Irrespective of the type of initiative that is underway, a service agreement with ioSemantics will prove to be a trusted colleague and collaborator in accomplishing day-to-day tasks with higher quality, greater efficiency and reduced cost.

Some of the types of initiatives that ioSemantics' Platform can be leveraged to accomplish include:

• Ongoing legacy maintenance to make the systems that the business depends on better reflect and serve the business;
• System replacement or rewrite, especially those targeting new architectures such as SOA;
• Package install, for both the evaluation or implementation phases;

• Architectural consolidation post merger, when multiple systems need to become one;
• Decoupling core business functionality — that is shared and needs to perform and scale very large — from edge responsibilities that are better deployed to distributed technologies;
• Application improvement and refactoring that is often needed to address cost, performance or scalability concerns.

ioSemantics' Platform is a trusted automated source of information for understanding legacy COBOL system implementations and the implications of making needed changes.

Timely Answers

The overwhelming majority of time spent when performing analysis on a legacy COBOL system is in digging into the source for both understanding and completeness. The objective behind the effort depends on the initiative, the role of the person doing the work, and the task at hand. A short list includes:

• Explaining how a specific calculation is performed;
• Extracting test cases;
• Understanding data relationships;
• Determining the impact of adding a specific function or feature;
• Comparing similar modules for redundancy and consistency.

Once the legacy COBOL system source is evaluated, then studying the results and coming to a conclusion on how to proceed is possible. ioSemantics' Platform does the first step in an automated manner almost instantaneously, thereby leaving to the individual what he does best: applying his mind to the trusted and complete information provided.