Cornerstone Technology

G4/Sigma: one tool, one strategy, one stop shopping for:

Our mission

Cost savings through automated Documentation, Analysis, Conversion, Migration, Renovation and Modernization of legacy applications. Improve IT service levels in order to yield higher profits through increased revenue and decreased cost of primary business processes. Improve application availability through automation of vital IT-tasks. Improve IT response time for changed business demands through improved agility of application systems and newest flexible HW/SW infrastructure. Improve IT-service levels through advanced ERP-like functionality for the IT-shop itself. Provide for automated solutions to unravel complex spaghetti coded IT systems, resulting in better business support.

Establish automation of the entire IT-portfolio through leading edge ERP functionality for the IT disciplines itself. Enable IT-solutions that will set in motion value creation of the application portfolio and guaranteed ongoing savings.

Deliverables

Automated solutions improving effectiveness of all four mayor IT areas: existing legacy, new development, package implementation and outsourcing.
Integrated solutions based on G4/Sigma architecture: one tool, one strategy, one learning curve for all four mayor IT areas.
Measurable improvements of the customer business process through automation of vital parts of IT-activities. Transparency, control and flexibility of IT-legacy systems through G4/EAM, an ERP system for the IT-shop itself.
Automated solutions for Reducing, Reusing and Recycling of strategic legacy applications based on the integrated solution platform G4/Sigma.
Automated solutions for Conversion, Migration, Modernization, Replatforming of legacy applications.
Measurable and guaranteed ongoing savings of maintenance and control of IT-legacy systems, supported by advanced ERP technology (G4/Repository).
Adherence to changed business requirements through automated solutions which establishes agile applications, running on newest HW/SW and relational database technology.
Avoid capital destruction of strategic legacy systems through advanced automated conversion, transformation and modernization solutions.

Strategy

Implementation of G4/Sigma technology, the kernel for an integrated set of tools for Conversion, Migration, Modernization, supported by the strategic edge ERP system G4/Repository and G4/EAM.
Implementation of ERP-like technology for the IT disciplines itself. Implementation time less than 3 weeks.
Modernization, Re-platforming, Conversion, Migration and Re-structuring of strategic legacy systems.
Project strategies based on one CMM level 4/5 Factory Process, one Methodology, one Technology for back-, mid- and front office applications.
Improve transparency and accessibility of voluminous and complex spaghetti type legacy applications through industry leading ERP-like technology G4/EAM.
Improve maintainability, Understand, Change and Control of complex legacy systems through G4/EAM, the leading ERP technology for the IT-shop itself.
Measurable decrease of TCO, flexibility and agility of application portfolio.
SLA guarantees of cost savings.
Business case driven savings and ROI for conversion/migration of less than one year.
Business case driven savings and ROI for legacy maintenance of less than 2 to 3 months.
Dashboard function showing vital KPI's like FP's (FPA), KPI's like McCabe, Halstead, KNOT count, Maintenance effort in FP's, Test effort in FP's, Application Asset Value (derived from FP's and KPI's).

Critical Success Factors

No freezing of legacy systems, no business interruption.
Fixed Price/Fixed Date service agreement.
One integrated solution platform G4/Sigma for both modernization/conversion and analysis/maintenance.
Fast, Quality and Cost effective solutions.
Automated KPI's for all IT-areas.
G4/EAM, based on G4/Repository, an industry leading ERP solution for the IT-shop itself.

Indicative solution profile

Legacy conversion, legacy migration, legacy renovation, legacy modernization, legacy rejuvenation, re-platforming. ERP-like solution for the IT-shop like SAP, JDEdwards, Siebel for the manufacturing shop. Decreasing TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), measurable cost savings and short term ROI, advanced legacy maintenance support through G4/EAM (Enterprise Application Manager) a leading edge ERP solution for the IT-industry. Legacy application conversion and hierarchical/network database migration. Any-to-any conversion/migration. ERP supported conversion/migration/modernization trajectory. Fully automated reverse engineering. Reengineering and refacturing of outdated application technology.

Improved IT services through automation of routine based IT tasks. Meeting business demands through better IT response and more agile systems. Bottom-up SOA re-architecturing. ITIL compliance. ERP-based control for maintenance, application development, package implementation and outsourcing projects.

KPI's for all apllication areas. KPI's automatically established through advanced Dashboard solutions. KPI's like FP, McCabe, Halstead, KNOT-count, percentage duplicate code, ISO 9126 aspects like maintainability, changeability etc., TÜV-IT quality criteria.