People keep asking us - so, what is the difference? Can you answer this question without diving too deep into the technology? Will you please summarize what makes you stand out of the crowd into say, a page or two?Well here is what I got from under my pen... Who should care? Anyone who answers yes to at least one of the following questions:Does your organization/unit rely on core business desktop applications?Were they written with the RAD systems of the 1990's, say - VB6, PowerBuilder, or desktop Java or .NET etc.?Are you aware of their costs? Maintenance burdens? Are they blocking innovation and holding your organization back? Are you aware of the "lost-opportunity" cost?Do your users complain about the user experience those systems provide?Does the vendor no longer support them? Do they not have good web or cloud versions? Are they nearing their end of life?Are they badly integrated with the new platforms - or not at all? Why should you care? Because you should be concerned with the wellbeing of your organization, right? After all it is your professional prestige on the line, isn't it? Whether you like it or not pretty soon you will find out that like the dinosaurs at the time, your organization is at risk of losing grounds, your competition is ahead. Mind you, history is not as forgiving: "Since 2000, 52% of the companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, ceased to exist, or dropped out of the List". What are the concerns?End of vendor support is a risk, most probably a regulation breach and a big headache, right?Shortage of experienced programmers forces you to pay more and more, if at all possible to find? Your users, customers and partners increasingly complain and argue they need up-to-date, the today so-common user experience to stay relevant? They want the fast, real time experience like web browser, opening up to mobile and cloud?And possibly, just possibly there is a requirement from your peers and management for far more efficient IT?Is manual rewrite an option?Ummm... although those old good systems will have to go through some process of updating by rewrite and reengineering, you should ask yourself! Do you really know how to extract their business logic?How would you select the newest platform and best language for your organization?If manual rewrite - how exactly are you going to do it without documentation, the programmers who wrote the application and without knowing the business logic of those systems? Who really knows what and how the system does what it does today? Who has the full structure of the business rules embodied in this bunch of code? in short you may get stuck before you even start.Can you really spare the resources, lead and take the responsibility for the intensive and risky work of manual rewrite? Soooo?Enter this new patented Automated Rewrite technology....The new patented Complete Code Understanding technology automatically builds a full intermediate representation of the source (the legacy) application from which it can re-create and generate the original business functionality on a new platform and usually in a new language.The first question you might be asking - does it deliver a high-quality, standratly maintainable application? Yes, the target application will follow best practices both in architecture and in code quality. Because the target application is generated, not translated, the Automated Rewrite is able to incorporate the Microsoft static analysis standards for example, as well as MVC or MVVM architectures.A concern we often hear - will the new application be functionally equivalent? Yes, because the new application is generated from a precise internal representation of the source functionality, and is based on additional patented advances in virtual compilation, the re-architected system will strictly adhere to the existing business logic. In fact, Gizmox will use a current test suite if it exists to validate the modernization.Those who know something about the limitations of the automatic migration tools often ask - is the modernized application customizable? Yes - in addition to the powerful code understanding and virtual compilation engines, the Automated Rewrite Studio includes an IDE in which extensive customization is possible, for everything from Cloud (PaaS) backend, through the UI to creating web services from existing code blocks. What am I to gain from all this?Lots. Lots of fame by leading your organization to really benefit from:Reviving and reusing core business client/server applications fast and efficiently with a new life on the web/cloud. The modernized application will include standard ways to add mobile experiences and a well architected, standards-based and maintainable code base - all without the cost and risk of a re-specification effort and manual rewrite. Migration of enterprise scale applications written in VB6, PowerBuilder, desktop .Net Java and others to modern web applications on ASP.Net, Java and/or Angular. VB6 and PowerBuilder can also be modernized to .Net desktop applications.A full-service modernization project, or we can work with partners and customers to provide a ready-for-production modernized application.
