~ Paul Simon For over 40 years, the formerly Tandem, now HPE NonStop, user community has advanced the use of these mission-critical systems by promoting the free exchange of information between IT professionals and leveraging this technology to transact business. In the past four decades, this dedicated cadre of users has become a tightly knit …
Founded in 1983, TIC Software has been designing, developing and distributing IT solutions to address the technical challenges of modernizing legacy applications for over three decades and counting! We’re proud of our history – helping our clients maintain the highest standards with innovative solutions that keep their business IT infrastructure running smoothly. Our products and …
Better Business Intelligence & Reporting with Report.Web One of the challenges organizations face today is capitalizing on the sheer volume of information available and how to best leverage what’s pertinent to help make optimal business decisions. Company databases are filled with a variety of information about clients, prospects, revenues, costs and market trends – but …
Organizations that have implemented mainframe computing solutions in the past have two viable IT options as time passes and technology evolves. One option is to keep their systems in synch through modernization – adding current application software, firmware and tangential hardware – to integrate newer features and benefits into existing platforms. Alternatively, they can move …
Drivers rely on their dashboard gauges, warning lights and alarms to keep them apprised of any potential issues – so shouldn’t the same theory apply for monitoring your important business applications? Being forewarned at the first sign of trouble puts one in the best position to address the problem before further issues arise. Like this …
Part 3: Blu Age Methodology In Part 1 of this blog series, we discussed the benefits of modernizing SCOBOL requesters, and the challenge of handling programs with extensive business logic.. In Part 2, we talked about how to approach these business logic embedded programs via re-engineering and the benefits of using a tool like Blu Age. In …
MDA Intro Guess what? You have legacy applications. What are they? Well, they are COBOL applications that are many years old. Our loyal developer community is looking forward to retirement, so who will attend to the care and feeding of these “classic” applications? By the way, COBOL isn’t the only legacy technology You’re right if …
Some people may believe in: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Unfortunately, this saying undermines the importance of investing in strategic options with foresight to avoid pending disasters. A couple of cases in point: I started my first job in the 1970’s with an intelligent terminal company called Sycor , which was eventually acquired …
Have you ever considered modeling? No, we’re not suggesting you strut down the fashion runway or try to get that little ship to fit inside the bottle. We are talking about modeling software-intensive systems using Unified Modeling Language (UML2). Before we talk about modeling software, let’s look at a more familiar kind of model, a …
Want to minimize development risks? Adopt the right methodology! In this column, I would like to discuss how the right methodology can minimize risks and accelerate the development process. Development Risks Steve McConnell, author of the classic book on development “Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules” attributes insufficient risk management as …
