Mining Legacy Systems
for Business Behavior, Rules & Knowledge
Extracting Business Logic
& Rules
In the current business climate, characterized
by an increasing pace of change, there is an oft-expressed
desire for increased business agility to respond.
Whatever is driving change, there is almost always an Information
Technology component to the needed adjustments – and
IT is often considered a drag on the ability of business
to respond adequately or in a timely manner.
In order to meet the goal of business agility, the divide
between business and IT systems must be eliminated. This
requires some fundamental changes in how systems are designed
and built.
Some key features of this change include:
• Direct business visibility in the rules and behavior
of the system
• Direct business ability to directly implement at
least some of the needed changes
There are a number of IT tools available that can be part
of the transformation. These include BPM tools and Rules
Engines, but these tools are only useful once the business
processes and business rules are fully understood - and
this presents a big problem for many companies. A large
percentage of these rules and process are contained in code
and there is minimal or no independent understanding of
the business knowledge and business rules contained in the
code.
These problems are indeed complex and an understanding
of the challenges is critical to structuring an approach
with a potential for successfully addressing these challenges.
You will learn:
• The challenges to consider when mining legacy systems
• What strategies and approaches exist to address
the challenges
• What frameworks, standards and types of tools exist
to help organizations transform these legacy environments
• What are organizations doing in this area |
