Your application portfolio is a critical business asset, but your operational costs are increasing as a percentage of total IT budget each year. Current data shows that >80% of IT budgets are allocated to operations/maintenance of existing applications. But in the current economy, application owners/managers are under increasing pressure to improve service levels despite decreasing budgets. The only way to solve this dilemma is to significantly reduce your application maintenance costs quickly.
MAKE Technologies Inc., an industry leader in semantic modernization, is pleased to announce the launch of TLM: CORE, an integrated Web 2.0 platform designed to reduce maintenance costs by providing an online repository of business processes, annotated code, data structures, and their interrelationships, that can be quickly interrogated by maintenance staff. TLM: CORE provides the application intelligence necessary to develop focused and cost-effective strategies for defect resolution and the delivery of new business value. It works with any mix of languages, on any mix of platforms, to turn poorly understood/documented applications into transparent, visible and connected assets.
In support of this announcement, MAKE is hosting a live webinar, ‘Reduce your TCO in 7 weeks’, on Thursday May 28th. Duration 60 Min.
”Turning Legacy Liabilities into Assets.”
MAKE Technologies, a leader in application analysis and legacy modernization, today announced TLM:CORE for Application Intelligence, a solution to reduce the cost and increase the business value of application maintenance.
TLM:CORE uses MAKE’s fit-for-purpose toolkit for application analysis to build an interactive Web 2.0 repository of any application. The TLM:CORE toolkit is completely language agnostic, and can identify and expose dependencies and hidden facts in systems that span languages, databases and even platforms. The TLM:CORE toolkit centers around MAKE’s CORE Repository, which provides an integrated, 360º view of an application. Analysts can visually navigate associations and dependencies among business processes, code programs and data elements of any application.
Please join us for the launch of TLM:CORE for Application Intelligence and learn on how to turn your legacy liabilities into assets. Duration 60 Min.
Thursday May 14th, 2009
10:00 – 11:00 AM PDT / 1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT
Speakers
Bill Bergen, President and CEO MAKE Technologies Inc.
Christian Cotichini EVP Strategy
Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) May 6, 2009 — MAKE Technologies, a leader in application analysis and legacy modernization, today announced TLM:CORE for Application Intelligence, a solution to reduce the cost and increase the business value of application maintenance.
“In good and bad economic times, our customers are looking for top line growth or bottom line savings,” says Bill Bergen, MAKE President and CEO. “TLM:CORE addresses both of these and enables them to get back to delivering business value.”
“Our customers tell us that application maintenance is getting more difficult,” says Christian Cotichini, TLM Practice Lead for MAKE. “Between losing knowledgeable programmers and increasing complexity, it’s impossible to keep up — much less get ahead.” He explains that, “Every change to an application makes the next change more difficult.” The challenges aren’t confined to COBOL or mainframe systems, he adds, “We’ve analyzed ‘legacy’ systems in Java and Visual Basic that were just a few years old.”
MAKE brings a unique set of capabilities and tools to the table. MAKE’s Bill Bergen says, “MAKE’s pedigree is in application analysis for modernization and re-architecting, so we know how to extract the intelligence out of an application portfolio.” MAKE is an industry leader in delivering modernization. “MAKE has a real braintrust around methods and tools to leverage application assets,” Bergen adds, “be it for maintenance, portfolio management, or modernization.”
TLM:CORE technology has already proven effective in major enterprise environments. “It helped me understand how I could leverage the investments we’ve made over the past five years,” says Alain Coulombe, Executive Director of IT for the Alberta Ministry of Justice.
“Today,” Bergen says, “cutting TCO means saying ‘No’ to the needs of the business.” Forrester has documented a steady decline in the budget for new investments as lights-on maintenance costs rise. “TLM:CORE cuts core maintenance cost and takes off the pressure,” he concludes.
MAKE’s Cotichini is tuned in to the challenges of maintenance. “Once the programmers who built these systems retire or move on,” he says, “the maintainers need to recover that knowledge from the system.”
“It’s too expensive to sift through outdated documentation and spaghetti code,” Cotichini says, “when the application intelligence from TLM:CORE lets them perform core analysis tasks in seconds.”
TLM:CORE uses MAKE’s fit-for-purpose toolkit for application analysis to build an interactive Web 2.0 repository of any application. The TLM:CORE toolkit is completely language agnostic, and can identify and expose dependencies and hidden facts in systems that span languages, databases and even platforms. The TLM:CORE toolkit centers around MAKE’s CORE Repository, which provides an integrated, 360º view of an application. Analysts can visually navigate associations and dependencies among business processes, code programs and data elements of any application.
“TLM:CORE puts all of this Application Intelligence in a web browser interface,” explains Cotichini, “so it fits into any maintenance process.”
MAKE delivers TLM:CORE for Application Intelligence as a combination of the CORE Repository knowledge base and a short, fixed-price engagement to model and capture the application. MAKE includes education services in the price to bring analysts up to speed on how to leverage the CORE Repository.
“Our experience extracting intelligence from a broad range of applications lets us deliver for a low fixed-price,” Bergen explains. “We know what we’re looking for and we know how to find it.”
Please join us the 14th of May at 1 EDT / 10 PDT for the launch of TLM:CORE for Application Intelligence and learn on how to turn your legacy liabilities into assets. Register at Introducing TLM:CORE for Application Intelligence Webinar.
About MAKE
MAKE Technologies, Inc. is the only solution provider that can effectively analyze and modernize all three aspects of enterprise applications: business processes, source code and data. MAKE’s modernization platform, TLM, helps their global customer base to reduce the cost & risk required to maintain and modernize their mission critical systems. Since 2000, TLM, has revolutionized the way these organizations modernize their legacy systems into real-time, distributed and service oriented applications that integrate COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) packages, enterprise middleware, relational databases and run on modern enterprise platforms such as Java EE. The TLM platform is available directly and through a network of worldwide partners. For more information about the company or its products, visit http://www.maketechnologies.com. MAKE is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Contact Information
Christian Cotichini
MAKE Technologies Inc.
#1790 – 1188 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6E 4A2
Telephone:
604-738-4999 x107 office
604-738-4979 fax
email: press at maketechnologies.com
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