Overview
i.Sight tools enable strategic planning, and application overhaul and modernization. They reveal the reality of enterprise application portfolios and detailed constructs of business applications.
i.Sight is a comprehensive platform for understanding application portfolios, delivering centralized business and technical insight into a wide range of applications – from COBOL through Java, and more.
Micro Focus Analyzer Express provides insight into applications through quick access to key analytics for COBOL applications. When developers lack full insight into applications, changes become difficult to execute. Analyzer Express provides instant access to these insights, from within the environment that developers use every day.
As an add-on to Visual Studio, Analyzer Express delivers key insights like data flow and execution path analysis with a simple right-click. Users can execute queries from the Modernization Workbench library of pre-built analytics to understand and confidently adapt COBOL applications to meet the business need.
Analyzer Express provides developers with quick answers to common questions about their COBOL applications. How does data flow within an application? Where is a certain variable used in the application? Where are all the instances of an artifact that needs to change?
The forward and backward flow analysis makes it possible for developers to trace data flow both to and from an artifact, ensuring the completeness of the analysis.
Analyzer Express offers a subset of the assessment capabilities provided by Application Analyzer.
Application Analyzer provides detailed business and technical insight into diverse application portfolios - from COBOL to Java and beyond. Flexible analytics, robust reporting, plus rich visualizations and documentation lets development teams understand the structure and behavior of highly sophisticated applications.
Application Analyzer provides global teams with central, shared insight into the entire application portfolio. Regardless of geography and skill level, users can understand how their applications are structured and behave. This shared perspective boosts communication between regions and accelerates the delivery of modified applications.
Customer-led ROI studies reveal that this insight reduces the time needed to complete large change requests by up to 50%. It also makes even junior or new team members instantly productive in maintaining applications.
Application Analyzer provides application visualizations and impact analysis to help determine how a change will affect a system. This means that disruption can be avoided and enhanced applications are back in production 40% faster.
The library of pre-built and customizable queries offered by Application Analyzer locates dead, non-standard, and inefficient code, enabling managers to plan refactoring activities and lowering the cost of maintaining applications.
Application Analyzer provides powerful reports about an application’s structure and connections with other systems. This enables analysts to quickly scope and plan modernization activities like migrations and mass field changes such as ICD-9 conversions.
Business Rule Manager provides powerful assessment capabilities that locate logic buried within application code. Analysts can quickly organize and document the logic, providing insight into how applications truly support business processes. The tool retains current links between rules and code, enabling teams to efficiently update and reuse proven business logic.
Using Business Rule Manager development teams can recapture the business logic buried within their existing applications. The applications that run business contain thousands of proven business rules, controlling how applications behave demands an understanding of this logic.
Business Rule Manager accelerates the discovery of hidden logic by up to 50% compared to manual approaches. This ensures that analysts and managers can quickly understand rules and learn how they are sequenced and organized within code, regaining control over the business behavior of even complex systems.
Business Rule Manager creates a single, browser-accessible knowledgebase of an organization’s business logic, so analysts can better communicate change requests to development teams. Developers know where to make changes in applications and can reuse proven logic, even in a service-oriented or business rule engine model.
Using Enterprise View, CIOs and managers make more informed business decisions about their application portfolios. This comprehensive solution collects rich technical and business metrics about applications’ cost, value, risk, and complexity. This data can then be filtered based on concepts that are meaningful to managers – for instance by business process, geography, or development team - providing valuable decision support for IT executives.
Enterprise View provides managers with the insights needed to make smart decisions about their applications. Business-centric dashboards aggregate data about application code, stakeholder opinions, and additional metrics like cost or failure rates.
Metrics can be filtered by business process, geography, development team, or other contexts. The data gives managers a view of which development teams are performing and which outsourcers are not meeting SLAs, for example. It also means managers can spot inefficient and failing applications where modernization efforts should be focused.
Modernization Workbench provides rich technical insight into the inventory and structure of the application portfolio. This enables teams to accelerate development tasks by up to 40% and also provides business-level perspectives on applications. With Modernization Workbench development organizations can identify how to optimize the cost and agility of their core applications.
Modernization Workbench collects rich metrics about an applications’ cost, value, and risk. This permits management to identify where applications and development teams are failing to meet SLAs.
Once development priorities have been set, managers must determine how to modify their applications. Modernization Workbench’s ability to assess and measure applications provides the solution, indicating to managers the scope and effort required for development tasks so they can assign work items based on code impacted by a given change.
Modernization Workbench provides valuable insight into core applications. Systems stop being untouchable ‘black boxes’ as executives can identify opportunities for improving the efficiency of applications. Managers can better scope and plan modernization and development tasks, and developers can understand how to adapt their applications to respond to business requirements.