Accelerate application understanding and design. Dell Application Blueprint Accelerator
We can help you reduce risk and optimize your resources — so you can focus more on your business.
Effective application modernization and design starts with insight. Key benefits To remain competitive, you need to deliver innovative solutions that embrace • Reduce development costs by technologies such as cloud, mobile and big data. You may already be maintaining arming business owners with deeper a full suite of applications that provide crucial information and processing to your application insight organization, but the inherent complexities of these legacy programs may be preventing you from being fully responsive to changing business needs. • Shorten current-state application analysis time and enhance efficiency Effectively transforming legacy systems to the agile environments today’s customers and business process stakeholders expect first starts with gaining a full • Improve application requirement understanding of your current application landscape. Dell Application Blueprint quality and reduce rework and Accelerator Service can be the key to providing greater application insight and testing cycles accelerating the design and blueprint phases of subsequent development activities. • Maximize investment decisions by Reduce development costs and improve quality. managing your application portfolio The Dell Application Blueprint Accelerator portfolio is a suite of quick start for current and future business services that capture a digital snapshot of your current application and business • Gain the competitive edge with landscapes. Designed to deliver results in as little as four weeks, Dell Blueprint faster implementation for enhanced, Accelerator Service provides the automated tools and expertise to reverse modernized applications engineer existing application functionality, which provides greater insight and leads to improved requirement definitions. We can accelerate the design and • Deeper application knowledge blueprint phases of almost any application development project, on any platform. leads to better requirements and traceability throughout The key to this expedited service is our limited upfront engagement. To get a project lifecycle started, we just need a copy of your existing application source code. A source code scan provides the blueprint we need to perform a targeted analysis with your business process owners. Application inventory is also recorded to better understand the nature and intended application usage from a user perspective. Using tools like these can help you understand what will be modernized, so you can reduce both risk and cost. Dell Application Blueprint Accelerator
Take the guesswork out of application Comprehensive solutions for a range of projects. design with SaaS-based tools. Four packaged services are available within the Dell Application Blueprint The Dell Application Blueprint Accelerator portfolio. Accelerator Service leverages automated • Technical Blueprint – Provides a blueprint of an existing application for customers tools, Dell Analyzer and Dell Repository, considering projects such as upgrades, migrations, cloud and re-hosting to create a catalog blueprint and • Application Blueprint – Provides a blueprint and data model for a single application, which is ideal for customers with projects such as custom development, SOA, categorize application usage. The output integration and mobility of the Dell Blueprint Accelerator Service • Portfolio Blueprint – Provides a blueprint, data model and use case diagrams for an is a catalogued, organized application existing application and is designed for customers with commercial off-the-shelf/ blueprint that is stored in the Dell enterprise resource planning, business intelligence and process re-engineering Repository which provides a 360-degree implementations view of application usage, including how • Roadmap Add-on – Identifies options and develops decision criteria, future state people operate these applications, what vision and ROI-driven plans data they use, and how your applications For organizations with unique portfolio analysis needs, a custom Dell Portfolio have been modified over the years. Assessment service is also available. The Dell Analyzer and Dell Repository are SaaS-based tools and designed to Services Tasks Deliverables ensure that all information is current and available to project stakeholders during any stage of an application Technical • Lines of code: up to 1,000,000 • Preliminary findings report development lifecycle. Blueprint • Applications: 1 • Dell Repository service scope • Languages: 1 • Data technologies: 1 Dell Repository • Data objects (tables or files): up to 200 • Duration: 4-6 weeks
Application • Lines of code: up to 1,000,000 • Preliminary findings report Blueprint • Applications: 1 • Dell Repository service scope • Languages: 1 • Knowledge transfer • Data technologies: 1 • Data objects (tables or files): Dell Repository provides a collaborative up to 200 and interactive environment to manage • Green screens: up to 200 your assets. • Batches: up to 100 • Reports: up to 150 Dell Analyzer • Duration: 8-12 weeks
Portfolio • Lines of code: up to 2,000,000 • Preliminary findings report Blueprint • Applications: 1 • Dell Repository service scope • Languages: 2 • Knowledge transfer • Data technologies: 2 • Data objects (tables or files): up to 400 Dell Analyzer allows you to discover the • Green screens: up to 350 relationships between your assets: data • Batches: up to 200 sets, application code, use cases and • Reports: up to 300 business processes. • Duration: 12-16 weeks
Roadmap This service provides a strategic and optimized roadmap in Add-on support of the business application landscape. Project duration: 6-8 weeks. Dell Application Blueprint Accelerator
Related products and services. Dell Re-architecture technology: Once you have a better understanding of your current applications, Dell offers The Dell Data Workbench migrates data continuously and in paralles with additional services to help you on your DW application re-architecture. Data modernization journey. With an end- Workbench to-end approach, Dell Services can help you reach your target destination quickly and with less risk. The Dell Code Generator generates code from Dell Designer into a service- CG based architecture, boosting productivity and quality. Dell Re-architecture Solution. Code Generator Dell’s Application Re-architecture Solution enables you to migrate legacy systems to more agile platforms by The Dell Designer creates modern application models based on legacy re-factoring existing IP into a well- D requirements discovered with Dell Analyzer and incorporates necessary structured modernized architecture such Designer enchancements. as Java or .NET. Re-architecture protects current business functionality, eliminates obsolete logic and technology-specific The Dell Analyzer reverse-engineers requirements by capturing how users code, while incorporating architectural actually use the software and discovering the connections between application best practices (e.g., SOA, security A Analyzer functionality, code and data in an interactive and collaborative environment. model, multilingual and improved maintainability). The end result enables strategic growth, reduces operational costs and restores business agility. The Dell Repository enables companies to catalog and understand all the R assets in their legacy applications by creating a 360-degree view of application Repository Dell Re-hosting Solution. usage, including how people operate these applications, what data they use, Dell’s Application Re-hosting Solution and how your applications have been modified over the years. enables you to re-platform existing mainframe and proprietary UNIX environments onto cost-effective, Dell Mainframe Re-hosting technology industry standard systems while Dell Mainframe Mainframe protecting existing application, data TPE/BPE Re-hosting software MRRA Re-hosting Reference and end-user interface investments. Architecture Re-hosting preserves existing Comprehensive, robust environment for Proven framework for addressing the complete IT investments and extends the running re-hosted mainframe workloads picture, including 3rd party tools during benefits of distributed platforms to natively on standard architectures. migration. previously legacy-locked systems. By minimizing change, re-hosting Dell Enterprise Technology provides a recognized strategy COBOL COBOL SOA/Web to dramatically shrinking high infrastructure costs while Powerful COBOL mainframe offloading and Service Builder and Web Connect technology minimizing risk and business impact. modernization platform; tightly integrated SOA and/or Web-enabled legacy application with re-hosting technology. components.
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