New assessment tool for moving apps to Web/Cloud released
roy.goffer posted on November 02, 2010 :: 1890 Views
We are excited to announce the new exclusive tools and methodologies of our CloudMove solution which enables the transposition of legacy Client/Server applications into a Web / Cloud / Mobile applications.
This is a 2-step process of which the first step is to convert the code into .NET (Windows Forms or WinForms) and the second is what we refer to as transposition. Since VWG mimics the WinForms API our solution simply reuses and transpositions the code rather than the long costly process of conversion or migration of code. In the future we are going to automate this tool based transposition process to VB6 (will be released shortly) and other platforms such as Oracle Forms, Magic and other legacy.
As of today we are releasing a free AssessmentTool which is a simple, downloadable standalone EXE application which can be executed on the runtime assemblies of a WinForms application, from which it extracts detailed information regarding your project (technology statistics and usages). This information is by no mean a risk to your intellectual property as it collects technological information and statistics and not business logic analysis or algorithms capturing.
This tool is based on a wide database which is created progressively during the assessment process. After creating this database we run some queries on it, searching for patterns and usages that are risky or requiring manual adjustments when running as VWG/Web. The results are aggregated as a readable report which indicates the relative portion of the application that can be reused automatically (as-is). In addition it provides more specific information on the parts that will require adjustments and manual intervention.
This report assists you further to decide and assess the efforts require to upgrade the application to the Web, based on the level of the automatic transposition vs. the manual intervention required. We expect that the majority of Window Form applications will show 80 – 90% portion readiness for transposition and will not require manual adjustment.
Assessing the remaining amounts of manual work can be done either by consulting with us (see services) or independently.
Download the tool today and find out how close you are to the Web or Cloud!