Successful businesses can quickly address new opportunities and challenges. This requires that the applications that automate and control these processes can themselves be efficiently realigned. However, as applications age, they tend to grow more complex and less well understood. As a result, the core business logic of these systems becomes progressively more difficult to locate and adjust.

Over time, rules become progressively more obscured within the application code. This increases the time required for developers to analyze their systems before they can modify any given process.

This also means that business rules cannot be rapidly modified to suit changing circumstances. Business users are forced to wait for IT resources to become available before changes can be made. Further, as business process changes become more frequent, IT resources will be increasingly devoted to modifying the buried rules and not focused on higher value activities.

Intellectual Property Must Be Leveraged

Regardless of the complexity, your applications represent a valuable asset for the organization. The business processes programmed into the applications have been adapted and refined over the course of many years. As a result, they represent competitive differentiators that have proven themselves in the real world.

Extending the value of these processes can be a highly beneficial initiative. For instance, an organization may wish to connect a process for opening an account to the Internet. Or perhaps to comply with government regulations it is necessary to demonstrate that your organization has modified certain business processes. Uncovering the relevant logic, documenting it, and making it accessible for auditing can simplify this compliance.

As organizations seek to increase their agility, they are turning to incremental modernization activities. This many involve adapting an application, moving toward SOA, or incrementally upgrading a business process. Each of these activities requires the harnessing of existing business logic.

In two sessions at Micro Focus Live, you can learn how to find and reuse the business logic embedded within your existing application portfolio. These practical sessions provide a step-by-step view of how to harness the logic embedded within these valuable systems.