Uniface Legacy Renewal and Integration

Legacy applications often have a monolithic structure that is difficult to adapt as business requirements change.

Compuware provides OS/390 solutions that deliver a solid return on your IT budget and reconcile current realities with your long-term business strategies.

UNIFACE solutions focus on data integration, strategic application integration and application extension--the type of projects that generate real business value.

Applications assembled with UNIFACE are a flexible blend of componentized legacy code, custom-built components and purchased components.

Data integration

Large organizations usually maintain an array of databases and hardware platforms. To exploit OS/390 data fully, these disparate systems must be able to access data transparently, without affecting performance or scalability. UNIFACE applications provide lightning access to every major enterprise database-including IMS, VMS, DB2 and ADABAS and Java—using native drivers. No complex coding is needed, so that decision-makers can call up data when and where it is needed.

Application integration

The real payback of information technology comes when your most important applications are integrated. This helps to eliminate waste, increases productivity and shortens your supply chain. UNIFACE can integrate the most complex custom applications with ERP solutions and packaged applications. This process is facilitated via support for industry integration standards such as COM, CORBA, web services and .NET.

Adding functionality as business requirements change

UNIFACE's component-based architecture allows developers to extend applications when new business requirements arise. Rather than rebuilding applications from the ground, UNIFACE allows you to add components and subassemblies as needed. In addition, UNIFACE components are based on a flexible business model that adapts to sweeping change. Business rules are stored in a repository so that when a change is made to the model, the change propagates to all affected components.