Worpcloud Ltd's research indicates that application modernization budgets are significant, ranging from 25% to 71% of IT budgets, highlighting the importance of addressing high maintenance costs and low flexibility in legacy systems. The company specializes in automated software modernization using Object Management Group's Model Driven Architecture, allowing efficient and low-risk migration strategies while preserving legacy value. Their services include design recovery, analysis of existing architectures, and targeted platform migrations or partial modernizations to enhance system functionality.

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2. Research reveals that application modernisation and migration budgets are currently very strong, covering between 25% to 71% of
most companies IT budgets in 2013/2014. This clearly indicates that application modernisation is one of the most significant issues
affecting companies – due to high software maintenance costs, low business flexibility and crippled integration and
interoperability. Software modernisation is the sole remedy for these problems.
Automated software modernisation is the best solution that is fast, low cost, preserves legacy value and is less risky by comparison
to the traditional methodology of a re-write or replacement by packaged ERP. Object Management Groups (OMGs) Model Driven
Architecture (MDA) methodology provides an automated model-driven reverse engineering and forward engineering process called
Architecture Driven Modernisation (ADM) which has already been successfully adopted by a variety of high profile organisations
such as Boeing, U.S. Air Force, Raytheon, EDS, Thales (European Aerospace) and numerous governments worldwide.
WORPCLOUD LTD is focused on being an Automated Software Modernisation Expert. We use OMG compliant tools and parsing
techniques to extract all system information, business semantics and software artifacts into an XML repository called the Abstract
Syntax Tree Metamodel. Next we use MDAs automated transformation procedures to generate new source code of your choice.
Manual architecting of the target system are also performed before the transformation thus ensuring; speed, low cost and
accuracy of the automated process combined with the flexibility & insight of human analysis.
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Overview

3. Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a new way of developing applications and writing
specifications, based on a Platform Independent Model (PIM) of the application or specifications
business functionality and behaviour.
A complete MDA specification consists of a definitive platform independent base model, plus
one or more platform specific models (PSM) and sets of
interface definitions, each describing how the base model is implemented on a different
middleware platform. Refer: http://www.omg.org/mda
Adhering to MDA processes, we focus on the behaviour of software systems, unbothered by the
intricacies of the technology platform(s) in which they are implemented, thus avoiding
redundant functionality/behaviour definitions, each time a new technology comes along.
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Model Driven Architecture

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5. The most common software modernisation strategy is to migrate an existing software to a new platform.
Example:
Migrating an IBM Mainframe COBOL, CICS, VSAM application to – say – Java, Java Server Faces, IBM WebSphere, Oracle.
Our automated transformation processes ensures advantages like – Legacy knowledge retention, Cost effectiveness, Time factor, Low risk,
More accuracy, Less new bugs etc. Following are some of the steps that we follow:
1. Design Recovery: As the first step to transforming any application, we must build a Meta-Model (or use an existing Meta-Model) of
the programming languages your application is written in. Then our parsers can analyse the source code (with reference to the meta-
model) and extract all possible atomic-level software artifacts into an XML Repository. The XML Repository then enables us to fully
analyse the source code and automatically generate documentation and analysis results for further engineering.
2. Analysis: We analyse the existing architecture to propose multiple migration strategies to move forward
3. Implementation of the chosen modernisation method:
 Decide a new target platform framework
 Web enabling, if required
 Database migration, if required
 Code refactoring and additional functionality
 Target architecture tuning, if required
 Code documentation generation
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Platform Migration

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7. Instead of migrating the entire application, it might be sometimes very efficient to migrate parts of them, in
phases. This approach urges us to see the application as different integrated pieces, where it is possible to
migrate each piece in isolation.
1. Web Enabling
Many organisations have key legacy systems with GUI or text based interfaces. With web browsers having been
widely crowned as the UI of choice, migrating the traditional UI to web browsers can prove to be a huge leap.
Furthermore, the system becomes more open, multi-user and qualified to be integrated with other applications.
Keeping the value of the legacy, the Web Enabling system can still make web browser and traditional GUI co-
exist in harmony.
2. Database Migration:
 Mapping DB schema from old to the new database
 Mapping artifacts like procedures, triggers to the new database
 Data migration
 Data access layer architecting
 Integrated testing with code
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Partial Software Modernisation

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Partial Software Modernisation
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9. This can be termed as Modernisation without migration. We assist in code
refactoring, to improve existing code. This is done by tuning the internal code
structure, behaviour and functionalities. Following are our offerings:
 Improve code readability
 To simplify code structure
 To change code to adhere to a given programming paradigm
 To improve maintainability and extensibility
 Performance tuning at all layers
 Code document generation
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Improving Existing Legacy Code

10. It is obvious that legacy systems undergo constant change, according to the volatile business environments.
Since legacy systems are poorly documented, we develop system documentation and reporting tools that
enable team to track the impacting areas of change requests and also maintain updated system
documentation. This cost effective and time efficient procedure is usually the first priority of most customers,
even if the real agenda is a complete platform migration. The typical reporting outputs are as follows:
 Application inventory – line count, fields, methods & file sizes.
 Method call and called by tree.
 Data access point highlighting
 Dead code analysis
 Unreferenced code analysis
 Unreferenced variable analysis
 Complexity analysis
 Sequence diagram
 Source file dependency analysis
 Business process modelling
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• Application Inventory Report
• Method call and called by tree
• Unreferenced variable analysis
• Unreferenced code report
• Dead code report
• Complexity analysis
• Sequence diagram
• Source file dependency analysis
• Business process modelling
• Data access report

11. About US
WORPCLOUD LTD is a Liverpool based company specialising in software and database solutions, with a
particular focus on cloud and mobility solutions. From customised application and database
development; to migration of existing legacy systems to modern cloud & mobile platforms. Our founding
technical team consists of highly experienced and skilled software engineers some of whom are former
employees of fortune 500 companies such as IBM and Oracle.
We are experts on all modern standard technologies including Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JSF, Seam, Struts,
Spring, Hibernate,PHP,C#,.Net, MySQL, Oracle, SQL-server etc. Our skilful and experienced team of
software developers are 100% committed to help you modernise your organisation with the latest cutting
edge cloud technologies. From day one you will be assigned a project manager with technical and
industry knowledge. This dedicated project manager will be available 5 days a week to assist you with
any queries; he/she will keep you updated every step of the way during the projects implementation‫‏‬‫‏‬.
Your project manager will also be backed up by our 24/7 technical support team.

12. Contact Us
WORPCLOUD LTD HQ
1 Old Hall Street
L3 9HG
Liverpool, UK
Tel : +44 151 528 2670
Mob : +44 744 791 6207
Skype: Worpcloud ( WORPCLOUD LTD)
Email : support@worpcloud.com
Website : worpcloud.com