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Imagine a platform that provides automation
to every aspect of a software portfolio lifecycle:
Assess & analyze your applications with confidence
Detailed knowledge and trustworthy analysis provides you with a foundational understanding of your applications.
Reliable documentation is crucial to maintaining and modernizing software applications. It is also a significant tool for IT departments when imparting knowledge to incoming developers and support personnel. Yet, independent research shows that around 70% of organizations do not have current documentation on a single application in their software portfolio, and knowledge transfer is entirely dependent on the experience and memory retention of existing personnel. Often, it is a lack of time and resources that causes neglect of this vital element in an organization’s IT infrastructure. The unfortunate consequence is time delays on projects leading to budget overruns.
The Intellisys platform automatically extracts all embedded knowledge from source code and generates a set of documentation artifacts that provide a detailed assessment of the applications processed. This same documentation is kept current by periodically processing any changes made to the applications. The result is accuracy due to automation with enormous savings in time and cost.
Rely on Intellisys to
Facilitate training and support personnel.
Enable both analysts and technical staff to effectively understand and analyze applications.
Keep portfolio documentation current so IT personnel can estimate project completion times and budgets accurately.
Support methodologies like DevOps to ensure all stakeholders are kept updated on the status of applications.
Advance analysis to help gauge the consequences of “change requests” and “bug fixes” more accurately.
Comprehensive automated documentation
Intellisys reverse-engineers source code to generate a series of reports, diagrams, and logic representations that provide a detailed view into the composition, database access details, and logic of the applications processed. Clients rely on this data to protect their assets and prepare for modernization. This documentation is:
Supported for applications written in 20+ languages.
Standard for all applications no matter what the programming language is.
Generated in formats and a neutral language that can be understood by analysts and any programmer.
Foundation for on-going maintenance & modernization
Once the generated documentation has been reviewed and analyzed, Intellisys enables multi-disciplinary teams to be agents of change and use the automation features available to:
Keep documentation updated.
Optimize the code for better performance, ease of maintenance, and prepare for modernization via code migration.
Consolidate the extracted logic into business rules in preparation for modernization via export and implementation in modern platforms like business rule engines, business process management (BPM) tools or business rules management systems (BRMS) like IBM’s ODM or Oracle’s ODM.
Intuitive and thorough analysis
Use documentation reports to identify areas of code that are no longer in use, are redundant, or are complex and may be simplified. Additionally use the platform’s analysis features to:
Identify best practices used in coding the source.
Trace all the paths that will result in the execution of a specific function.
Understand the assignments to variables as they flow through programs.
Identify activities performed on data entities.
Detect areas of code containing business rules or requiring optimization.
Trace data structures.
Are you building new legacy applications?
How do you ensure that efforts to modernize your applications don’t leave you right where you started? Time after time, we hear of dissatisfaction and wasted money and resources on application modernization projects.
U.K. Utility Company
In order to mitigate risks arising from "change requests" and "bug fixes", a major U.K. Utility company used Intellisys to document its code and to perform impact analysis on applications written in multiple languages