Mission: Roadmap:
Our Mission Statement

Create specifications and promote industry consensus on modernization of existing applications.

What are Existing Applications?

Existing application systems are defined as any production-enabled software, regardless of the platform it runs on, language it is written in, or length of time it has been in production. Existing application has entered the maintenance and evolution mode.

What is Architecture-Driven Modernization?

Process of understanding and evolving existing software assets for the purpose of

  • Software improvement

  • Modifications

  • Interoperability

  • Refactoring

  • Restructuring

  • Reuse

  • Porting

  • Migration

  • Translation into another language

  • Enterprise application integration

  • Service-oriented architecture

Modernization starts where existing practices fail to deliver against business objectives

Our Goals
  • The ultimate goal - Revitalization of Existing Applications
  • Make existing applications more agile
  • Leverage existing OMG modeling standards and the MDA initiative
  • Consolidate best practices leading to successful modernization
Benefits
  • Enable business agility by creating software agility
  • Improve ROI in existing software
  • Improve productivity of software development
  • Reduce maintenance effort and cost
  • Extending useful life of existing applications
ADM Workshop
ADM RFP's
  • Knowledge discovery meta-model (KDM)
  • Target models (both platform-specific and platform-independent)
  • Source-to-Target mapping models, addressing various specific classes of transformations.
    - May need to extend KDM for specific transformations
  • Metrics extension to KDM
  • Process model
  • Currently issuing Knowledge Discovery RFP
Timeline

 
Contacts:
Co-Chairs:  
 Djenana Campara, 
Klocwork Inc.,
djenana@klocwork.com
William M. Ulrich
Tactical Strategy Group, Inc.
tsginc@cruzio.com
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