OREANDA-NEWS. August 21, 2012. Fujitsu announced an addition to its APM Modernization Services for Cloud, which enables customers to build new systems based on their existing applications. The new modernization service via automated design documentation, which was developed by Fujitsu Advanced Solutions Limited (FASOL), is available starting today.

The Modernization service via automated design documentation converts the business logic in existing application assets coded in COBOL, PL/I, or BAGLES II(1) into Japanese-language design documents. Java source code can be generated from this design document, allowing operational testing to be performed. This makes it fast and inexpensive to restructure customers' business systems, giving them greater speed and flexibility in changing their businesses.

As changes in today's business environment continue to intensify, the applications that form the basis of a company's business platform must be able to adapt accordingly with speed and flexibility, creating a need to develop and operate up-to-date system platforms. However, this presents challenges for companies that have been running the same applications for many years; for example, the application design documents that would be the first step in a modernizing restructuring simply may not exist, the current application may not match up with the original design document, or many programmers may not understand the original programming languages in which these applications were written.

To overcome this problem, Fujitsu and FASOL have added the new Modernization service via automated design documentation to Fujitsu's existing service, APM Modernization Services for Cloud. This will enable companies to convert the their existing application assets coded in COBOL, PL/I, or BAGLES II into Japanese-language design documents to rapidly and inexpensively restructure customer's business systems.