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System Transformation and Re-Engineering |
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With applications turning obsolete no sooner than they are deployed and put in place,
system transformation and re-engineering is often a much more viable option than
abandoning legacy systems. Moreover, license proliferation, lack of agility of systems,
and the pain points involved in supporting complex monolithic systems are driving
organizations toward this alternative. Technology expertise, wide range of tools,
the experience to make accurate, and global availability of resources are the prerequisites
for successfully supporting complex system transformation or re-engineering initiatives.
UST aims not just to eliminate the burden of maintaining unmanageable
systems for its clients, but also to ensure that they perform better, profit more,
and are prepared for the future.
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Platform/Database Conversion and Application Migration
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If changing technologies, license proliferation, support costs, and, non-performing
databases and legacy applications are affecting your efficiency, consider re-platform
and migration options. These options do more than just resolving your issues; they
provide opportunities to consolidate and reduce platform and technology breadth
and thereby accelerate ROI and reduce total cost of ownership. Whether it is replacing
an out-dated system, or implementing a master plan to upgrade to a new technology
platform as part of an IT strategic direction, UST can help.
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Our solutions comprise three key ingredients; proven technology expertise, a cost
effective hybrid model that couples consulting and architecture know-how, and a
tool-based approach for assessing your legacy assets. UST's key differentiator
includes a consultative approach to define key ROI opportunities, establishing the
value of existing legacy assets by assessing their complexity and viability for
retention, and developing a roadmap customized to meet your specific needs. We perform
a tool-based assessment to determine the complexity of the legacy application and
the technology infrastructure and come up with a clear set of recommendations and
a roadmap.
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Serviced-Oriented Architecture
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Serviced-Oriented Architecture (SOA) aims to achieve loose coupling among interacting
software components. Loose coupling is generally achieved by observing two key constraints:
First, well defined, universally available services interfaces are identified for
use between software components; and second, implementation details related to the
service or unit of work are hidden.
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The antithesis of an SOA can be found in legacy applications. Legacy applications
are monolithic, isolated, hard to maintain, and inflexible. Modernization services
seek to leverage legacy applications by constructing an architecture and roadmap
to enable critical business functions. An SOA is well aligned with the objectives
of modernization. UST has championed the Serviced-Oriented Architecture
approach for modernization with great success for various Fortune 500 organizations
effecting increasing flexibility, better responsiveness to the business, and value
addition.
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We provide a simple, high-value, low-risk Architecture Analysis and Assessment process
for identifying opportunities around SOA and modernization. We meld top-notch industry
experts and architects, who have the experience and skills to evolve cost effective
offshore models to provide value and identify revenue generating opportunities.
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IT Revitalization:
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Many organizations run mission-critical, legacy application code that is monolithic,
overly complicated to maintain, and inflexible. It is often incredibly difficult
to respond to market needs when the applications that run your business are so fragile
that you hesitate to modify them. If your valuable IT resources are generally more
dedicated to maintaining outdated applications, and less on responding to new business
opportunities, the intangible costs to you could be significant.
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Revitalization can take many forms, but typically focuses on creating applications
that are clean, documented, more nimble, and better positioned to support interoperability
with new technology. The UST methodology provides for revitalization
activities at successive levels where each level requires progressively greater
effort, yielding greater benefits. Different levels are also available to reduce
deployment risks, allowing UST to incrementally deploy updates into the
production environment. The figure below illustrates the different levels of revitalization,
their associated activities, and the benefits of attaining increasingly sophisticated
levels of revitalization.
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UST also provides a risk free and tool-based Revitalization Assessment
service and methodology that leverages Relativity Technologies' Modernization Work
Bench to quickly analyze and assess the complexity and state of legacy applications
and application portfolios (iSeries or Mainframe) to quickly determine whether the
application(s) should be maintained, fixed, migrated, or replaced. The analysis
objectively provides relative data points around each of these options to ensure
that key opportunities are identified, culminating in a set of value-based actionable
recommendations.
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Custom Tools and Methodologies
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While the Information Technology world abounds in technical skill and capability,
the differentiators are the solutions and approach. UST follows an approach
that seeks to leverage tools to drive productivity, and uses well constructed methodologies
to ensure repeatability and efficiency. We use tools developed in-house as well
as cultivate partnerships with tool vendors to combine proven methodologies and
tool use to drive innovation, and provide our customers with specific solutions
that maximize value and reduce cost.
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An example is our partnership with Relativity Technologies and use of their Relativity
Modernization Work Bench to develop modernization and legacy application analysis
solutions. These solutions typically offer the following benefits:
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Reduce analysis and development costs substantially
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Accelerate the modernization of business-critical applications
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Facilitate management and maintenance of business-critical applications
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