FlexGen Structured RAD Features and Benefits
FlexGen
Structured RAD Features
and Benefits
COBOL's Richest Environment
Rapid Application Development
Rapid
Application Deployment
Open Systems and Client Server Computing Made Simple
Data Dictionary/Repository Bring Major Savings in
Development and Maintenance
Legacy
Investment Benefits
FlexGen Structured RAD brings you a pre-defined high-performance COBOL Frameworks infrastructure that provides you with a secure foundation for maximizing object reuse and building well-architectured systems rapidly and reliably.
Organizations around the world rely on FlexGen Structured RAD to build superior business systems that are productive durable assets. FlexGen Structured RAD combines Structured Architecture with advanced and flexible development tools and class libraries of reusable software components for business systems.
With its central data dictionary and active repository, FlexGen Structured RAD uniquely provides application developers with a rich workbench of integrated 4GL/RAD/5GE modules for rapid development, deployment and maintenance of modern business applications.Compared with other tools for improved development productivity, FlexGen typically brings schedule compression of 55–65% and amortized cost savings of 80–85%.
The concepts of FlexGen Structured Architecture also drive the presentation of deployed applications. This means that end-users are presented with modern, consistent, and fully secured access to your applications and data.
Legacy COBOL applications on proprietary platforms can be transformed into FlexGen Structured RAD mode on Open Systems platforms.
Your applications may need to be text-based, GUI-based, or a mixture of both. You may need them to be host-based, client/server or mixed. You need the flexibility to change any of these combinations at will, whilst securing the integrity of the whole application.
You need to be able to add new facilities to existing applications. You sometimes need to create complete new business applications.
For highest-productivity development and support within a consistent and reliable structured architecture, you can turn to FlexGen Structured RAD, whichever COBOL you use.
"We now write 100% of our new applications with FlexGen. We rarely bother to modify old programs — we just re-write them in FlexGen. FlexGen has given us that competitive edge. It is the single most important software package we own."
— Dan Thomas, Senior VP, Finance, Louisville Public Warehouse Company, Louisville, Kentucky
FlexGen facilitates the seamless integration of other technologies, such as popular databases, integrated email, graphics, voice and image processing, Internet and Intranet, EDI, and other third party utilities.
FlexGen's Runtime Menu and Security Deployment module provides a structured GUI or text-based environment (or both!) to high modern standards and with cross-platform compatibility.
Centrally-developed applications and software updates are deployed securely to end-user platforms, complete with all runtime control specifications.
The local systems administrator imports new or updated applications, etc, into the local FlexGen Dictionary/Repository. Security classifications then control availability of programs and data to end-users.
Custom pull-down and pop-up menus and access facilities can be developed in minutes, enabling you to integrate all applications at a site under one consistent FlexGen environment.
Selected FlexGen end-user development facilities, such as queries, report-writing and data extracts, can be made available to authorized local users.
Open Systems and Client Server Computing Made Simple
FlexGen Structured RAD delivers state-of-the-art tools to address even the most challenging application requirements, including:
Data Dictionary and Repository Facilitate Major Savings in Development and Maintenance
Programming effort is cut by orders of magnitude using FlexGen's Data Dictionary-based tools. FlexGen Structured RAD automatically takes care of COBOL housekeeping, maps screen and report fields to files, and generates advanced bug-free working applications.
Now applications developers can focus on the heart of an application — the business rules and processing flow. FlexGen Structured RAD takes care of the rest!
For developers, the advanced FlexGen Active Repository keeps an up-to-the-minute cross-reference by application element. This enables developers easily to identify and accommodate the impact of change to any application item. It also facilitates automation of format and data conversions.
One of the most pressing issues facing companies today is what best to do about their existing business-critical 'Legacy' COBOL applications. Year 2000 issues brought this question into sharp focus.
FlexGen Structured RAD turns this question into a major opportunity! Uniquely, as well as addressing today's and tomorrow's needs for a Structured RAD solution, FlexGen also has an integrated Legacy Liberator mechanism for bringing earlier applications into this same advanced development environment.
Within any organization, legacy applications will have many similar routines and procedures in common, but these are only rarely implemented in a truly standardized and predictable way. The false reassurance of commonality often disguises the hard truth that, if any changes are to be made without unleashing unpredictable consequences, practically any program in any application has to be approached as unique, uncharted and hostile territory.
It is hardly surprising that amending unreconstituted legacy systems can be difficult and expensive, even when they may have been operating very satisfactorily for years with no prior need for amendment.
With FlexGen Structured RAD you now have the opportunity to earn major new dividends for your company from its earlier investments in systems design, COBOL programming, and people skills!
The FlexGen Legacy Liberator module is an integrated re-architecturing tool that is about analyzing your existing applications in fine detail, turning valuable applications logic into reusable modules, and then re-assembling the whole application into a new but functionally compatible FlexGen Structured Architecture model that brings 4GL/RAD/5GE features and productivity to your legacy application.
FlexGen's Legacy Liberator migration toolset can be used to address most Legacy COBOL versions, databases and user interfaces, converting these to ANSI Standard COBOL, and importing all of this into your FlexGen Structured RAD repository.
The end result is a single productive FlexGen Structured RAD Open Systems environment for both new developments and Legacy System maintenance and enhancement.
"FlexGen, with Legacy Liberator and the excellent Vendor teamwork in understanding our problems and needs have been extremely beneficial in helping us move from a traditional mainframe and TP Monitor situation to Open Systems."
— Gary Fairbanks, Manager, Systems and Programming, Empire Southwest, Phoenix, Arizona.
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