Breathing New Life Into Legacy Systems
OMG task force seeks to standardize methods for data, app transformation
October 15, 2003 —
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An RFP allowing interoperability among applications and data residing on different platforms and written in different languages is expected to be issued by Object Management Group Inc.'s Legacy Transformation Task Force at the organization's meeting next month in London.
Approximately 40 software vendors and customers are participating in the effort, according to William Ullrich, co-chairman of the group and president of Tactical Strategy Group Inc., a consulting firm specializing in organizational and information transformation.
The group is using a broad definition of what a legacy system is-"any production-enabled system regardless of language or platform is a legacy system," Ullrich said-because narrowing that down eliminates too many systems, he indicated. "There are organizations that will take you from .NET and Visual Basic to J2EE, or from Java to .NET and C#, so it's migrating from an accepted new modern platform to another accepted new modern platform," Ullrich said, demonstrating that legacy transformations involve more than moving data off of mainframe systems into more modern architectures.
In fact, companies such as WRQ, NetManage and Attachmate, with which Ullrich has had discussions, "clearly all should participate," he said. Marcus Nitschke, Attachmate's marketing vice president, said the company is in the process of joining OMG. "We're very much on board [with the OMG standards initiatives] and look forward to actively participating in the legacy transformation group," he said. "From a strategy perspective, it's interesting to see an industrywide effort to take a more standardized approach" to solving legacy issues, he added. Also already on board with the project are Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Nortel and Unisys, as well as smaller companies such as KLOCwork, a source-code analysis and design tools vendor; and Anubex, a migration methodologies and migration tools company.
The first step in legacy transformation, Ullrich said, is the analysis of existing applications and systems, as well as the intangibles that help provide an understanding of the scope of the legacy environment. The intangibles could be business processes, or a function called "pricing," he explained.
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