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Application Understanding and APM

A comprehensive understanding of your applications facilitates significant ROI, cost savings and optimization. This understanding and analysis, also referred to as “application mining,” is essential to Application Portfolio Management (APM). It provides the details, mapping, and reporting necessary to facilitate significant improvements in productivity and to identify opportunities for cost savings.

Studies and user experience have proven that the use of tools to provide a thorough understanding of applications can improve programmer productivity more than 20%. An application knowledge base enables organizations to leverage their existing application assets. It is an essential mechanism for improving business agility and increasing efficiencies.

Portfolio Management

ASG's Path to Optimization for application management provides a step-by-step approach for improvement and greater efficiency. It is designed to generate immediate benefits and savings, while positioning organizations for future growth.

Benefits

  • Ability to implement in an incremental and cost-effective manner to deliver quick time to value.
  • Enables application organizations to efficiently rationalize their application assets.
  • Addresses a wide range of technologies and management requirements to support the entire application portfolio.
  • Supports governance requirements with reporting and analysis functionality.
  • Improves productivity through comprehensive application understanding and effective reporting.

Products

  • ASG-becubic provides support for more than 80 technologies that span mainframe to distributed platforms. It is an industrial strength solution that can provide end-to-end comprehensive understanding of application portfolios. It features a depth and breadth that is unmatched in the industry. ASG-becubic can help you comprehend and optimize custom, composite and packaged applications.

  • ASG Application Portfolio Analysis provides monitoring and analysis of the entire application portfolio. It consolidates information into easy-to-read dashboards and offers the ability to drill down to detailed reports and source code for rapid analysis. ASG Application Portfolio Analysis is built on ASG-becubic. It provides an essential step in moving organizations from a normalized state (Level 2) to a managed state of APM (Level 3).

  • ASG-Insight enhances the understanding of COBOL program flow and data usage for more intelligent and efficient application maintenance.

  • ASG-Recap presents measurement data from COBOL applications in a format that dramatically improves your organization's decision support process, and it enables you to align business and technical goals

  • ASG-PathPoint provides a new execution-based approach for understanding how mainframe applications really work. In minutes, application information is captured on the mainframe and downloaded to a PC relational database. This provides users with factual information about the application in the actual sequence of execution.