Refine for Discovery and Analysis

Increasingly, organizations are faced with the challenges of valuable, albeit aging, legacy application portfolios. It is compounded by a difficult economy and the pending retirement of baby boomers, thus requiring making and executing modernization decisions.

Solution overview

MetaWare Refine for Discovery and Analysis (DNA) provides the assessment and decision support you need for the future of your legacy applications.

Relying on Refine powerful inference capabilities, comprehensive knowledge base, and consistent estimation models, Refine for DNA automaticcaly produces the:

Complete inventory of used, unused and missing programs and components within your legacy environment and their attributes
Mapping of the source code and middleware architecture to a predefined set of Units of Work
Computation of the size of the Units of Work
Benchmark of the complexity of the Units of Work

Discovery and Analysis are instrumental to:

Feed the subsequent project cost model that will estimate the effort, the schedule and the risks of your modernization project,
Focus and drive the pre-study effort by providing a prioritized list of code and architecture items to be further investigated by experts,
Plan and prioritize the modernization initiatives using factual data to assess the scope, size and complexity of components or group of components


	Benefits 360° view of your legacy applications delivered in a fraction of the time usually required to achieve a rough analysis Accurate and Consistent Estimations, Benchmarking, and Projections Simplifyied decicion making, prioritization and planning based on accurate facts and figures Increased accuracy of estimates reducing uncertainty and project risks (cost, schedule, quality) Avoid cascading effects occuring when modernization decisions are made in isolation