Agile Business Suite for
Model-Driven Development
Agility – it’s the only way to succeed in the face of unrelenting change. Does your organization have the agility it takes to quickly respond to change? Do you have the tools and infrastructure you need to be able to take action?
You do – with Agile Business Suite. But it’s not just about change. It’s about change at the right price. Being able to reduce the cost of application maintenance without reducing quality. You can have that with Agile Business Suite as well. Think of Agile Business Suite as a Service Oriented Architecture-enablerIndustry publications, analysts, even your CEO say Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is what’s needed to be able to respond quickly to a new business opportunity or a competitive threat. You need to be able to assemble and re-assemble the right elements from existing applications and some new components to form a composite application. The reuse of existing elements reduces testing. And building new elements for reuse gives you investment protection. With Agile Business Suite, you can build composite applications quickly and easily. In addition, Agile Business Suite lets you define your application in high-level business terms. Your business experts and IT professionals can truly work together to create the new solution. They focus on what an application should do – not how it should be coded. Then Agile Business Suite does the rest. Look at these features:Model-driven development using object-oriented constructs to create a platform-independent definition of your solution Generation of services or complete, high-performance, highly available, enterprise-class applications from a single model definition Integration with Microsoft® Visual Studio so that you can access widely-available industry skills to staff your application development organizations Support of industry standards like XMI that enable exchange of model information with other tools A choice of deployment options, including the Microsoft Windows .NET framework, Java EE application servers and Unisys ClearPath MCP platforms – where the generated solution is optimized for the selected platform A rich variety of end-user client interfaces that can be generated – for the Web, for the desktop, or as Web Services – increasing developer productivity and end-user flexibility Automated Test Tool that captures and replays transactions, enabling development of repeatable test cases
Agile Business Suite includes:AB Suite Developer – a fully featured development environment to define, debug, generate, deploy and maintain business-critical services and solutions. Built on Visual Studio from Microsoft
Look at all the benefits:Solutions are defined and modified at a higher level of abstraction than traditional 3GL languages, such as C++ and Java, resulting in fewer errors and better quality solutions Uses Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagrams for design definition, making it easier to hire and train new developers Contains a powerful scripting language to capture specific processing actions Generates a complete multi-tiered solution that includes online transactions, batch reports, database schema and a variety of end-user interface options from a single, platform-independent model Makes maintenance much, much easier. Changes made in the model are automatically propagated throughout the solution
Are you using Enterprise Application Environment? Agile Business Suite provides “safe passage” for existing Enterprise Application Environment release level 3.3 applications. Load your EAE 3.3 model file into AB Suite Developer, click on a few options and generate it for the same platform. Need more reasons to move? We have them. Here are Ten Reasons to Move to Agile Business Suite. With Agile Business Suite, you have built-in traceability between your business processes and executable solutions. What’s visible in the model gets deployed to your real-time infrastructure. Automatically. Have a Software Business Consultant from Unisys contact you.
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