Software helps maintain enterprise applications.
Press Release Summary:
Asset Transformation Workbench v1.1 creates knowledgebase of enterprise applications to provide detailed reports, metrics, documentation, and visualizations of applications to team members via browser-based module. Analysis and assessment tools help accelerate ongoing maintenance and enhancements while also exposing business rules, which can simplify application reuse initiatives and increase productivity by restructuring and componentizing applications.
Original Press Release:
IBM Asset Transformation Workbench V1.1 Can Help Drive Down Cost and Can Help Accelerate the Modernization and Maintenance of Enterprise Applications
At a glance
IBM Asset Transformation Workbench can help drive down the cost and can help accelerate the modernization and maintenance of enterprise applications.
The Asset Transformation Workbench includes the following:
Enterprise Application Knowledgebase, which can provide current and centralized insight into application portfolios plus integration with WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer
Application Analyzer, which can demystify code and provides rich, dynamic, and interactive analysis of enterprise applications
Application Profiler, which offers nonprogrammers browser-based insight into the enterprise application portfolio
Language scanners, which support COBOL, PL/I, and Natural source files as well as CICS®, IMS(TM), DB2®, and SQL constructs
An optional Business Rules Extension can provide assisted discovery and management of enterprise business logic.
An optional Application Architect Extension can deliver automated assistance for transforming enterprise applications.
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: SE001).
Overview
IBM Asset Transformation Workbench V1.1 can help drive down the cost and can help accelerate the modernization and maintenance of many business-critical enterprise applications running on IBM zSeries® systems. The foundation of Asset Transformation Workbench is a knowledgebase that contains rich, current insight into application portfolios. Detailed reports, metrics, documentation, and visualizations of the enterprise applications are readily accessible to team members via the Asset Transformation Workbench and its browser-based module, providing the basis for higher-value activities. Unlike "snapshots" of a system that are out-of-date before they are complete, the knowledgebase is refreshed from the source code, remaining current despite the ongoing modifications to the application portfolio. Plus, through integration with IBM WebSphere® Studio Asset Analyzer, users can perform high-level analysis in WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer and then pass the application insight through a software bridge for use in Asset Transformation Workbench.
Asset Transformation Workbench can provide application development teams with a set of highly integrated workstation-based modules that use the application metadata in the Enterprise Application Knowledgebase to help accelerate strategic and tactical initiatives. Many development, analysis, and project management activities are streamlined with the Asset Transformation Workbench:
Powerful analysis and assessment tools can help accelerate ongoing maintenance and enhancements.
Tools can expose and help manage business rules, which can simplify application reuse initiatives.
Re-architecting tools can help increase the productivity of teams restructuring and componentizing applications.
The Asset Transformation Workbench can support "mass change" development activities, including those that may be necessary to prepare existing systems for service-oriented architectures.
Planned availability dates
Electronic availability
March 25, 2005: Availability for English U.S. electronic software delivery
May 27, 2005: Availability for Japanese electronic software delivery
Media and documentation availability
April 15, 2005: Availability for English U.S. physical media and documentation
June 17, 2005: Availability for Japanese physical media and documentation
