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Cost effective modernization efforts require deep insights of your business applications, so you can identify embedded business rules, restructure and remove dead code, and understand the impacts for code changes.

Modernization must address this and the complex dimensions of architectural challenges, including fragmented business processes, workflows, data, and tightly coupled application architectures.

Understanding your applications can improve the productivity of your IT staff and reduce maintenance costs through more automation and by eliminating the need to research, catalog, and assemble information for each service request individually.

There are many cost effective approaches and techniques to transform your core systems into flexible applications and services. Finding the right software solutions to modernize your legacy systems is the first essential step.

IBM® software helps you understand your applications as well as design, create, assemble, test, and deploy high-quality Web, Web 2.0, Web services, portal, and SOA applications for IBM CICS®, IBM IMS™, and IBM WebSphere® Application Server. By working with what you already have across platforms, you can reduce time-to-market, improve business alignment for growth, cut costs, and limit business risk.

Reduce application maintenance and development costs

Understand your enterprise architecture and application portfolio. Save time and money by restoring lost application knowledge with IBM WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer and IBM Rational® Asset Analyzer. They help users understand architectures, determine full impacts of proposed changes, identify and eliminate dead code, and help discover business rules and potential services for reuse of proven assets.

Transform complexity into usable information when managing and governing your reusable assets, business rules, and services with IBM Rational Asset Manager and IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.

Accelerate delivery of new workloads

Along with IBM Problem Determination Tools to assist developers in debugging, testing, and tuning their mainframe applications, IBM Rational Developer for System z® is the premier IDE to create platform independent services and to build traditional and composite applications, including CICS, IMS, COBOL, PL/I, Java, EGL, Web, Web 2.0, and XML-based applications.

Cut application development time by reusing proven assets to achieve fast ROI. How? IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services enables your green screen applications for a service-oriented architecture.

Or choose IBM Rational Business Developer to help you design and develop in EGL the new technologies for Web, Web 2.0, and SOA for deploying on multiple platforms in COBOL or Java™.

Further design and construct well archictected applications and services with IBM Rational Software Architect using a model-driven development approach based on the Unified Modeling Language™.

Besides code, don’t forget your data. IBM Data Studio offers a comprehensive data management solution to design, develop, deploy, and manage data-driven applications.

Increase application capacity and performance

Continue to increase capacity and performance without hardware upgrades by moving to our latest compilers, including Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and Enterprise PL/I for z/OS.

Automate testing and quality management

Coordinate end-to-end quality across all tools and platforms while saving time, improving application quality, and lowering costs with automated testing. IBM Rational Quality Manager and IBM Rational Requirements Composer gives you greater confidence to drive quality software delivery.

IBM Rational Functional Tester automates software testing for a wide array of applications, including Java, Microsoft® .Net, SAP, Siebel, terminal-based applications, and Web services.

IBM Rational Performance Tester automates load, performance, and scalability testing for a variety of applications including Web, Java, Microsoft .Net, Citrix, IBM mainframe, SAP, SIP, Siebel, and Web services.

IBM Rational AppScan® helps identify vulnerabilities and assess compliance requirements to improve the accuracy and reliability of online systems.

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