IRIS^TM - Business Rule Extractor is Benchmark Consulting's technology for automating the identification, selection, and conversion of COBOL-to-JRules business logic.

Enterprise Applications typically contain a substantial amount of Business Knowledge, which has been constructed, enhanced and tuned over many years. Typically such Legacy Enterprise Applications have little or no up-to-date documentation, and original authors and designers are no longer able or available to re-document the system. Manual re-documentation of such code is often a lengthy, expensive and error-prone process. Re-engineering these applications from an incomplete or inaccurate understanding has obvious pitfalls. Benchmark Consulting's modernization platform, IRIS^TM, uses sophisticated search algorithms to sieve through complex program code and isolate the Business Rules embedded within it. IRIS^TM identifies and aggregates variables of interest in conditions of interest for rules definition. Then, through its language translation technology, IRIS^TM produces Business Rules in Java-based JRules format.

Features

• Application overview and code inventory - reports and ease of navigation through flowcharting.
• Program level flowchart.
• Identifies variables of interest (VOI). Given a variable-of-interest, IRIS^TM automatically finds relevant statements that provide definition of a rule.
• Manages all terms and packages in an execution object model (XOM). The XOM is the model against which rules are run in JRules.
• Converts the XOM into a business object model (BOM). The BOM is the basis for the vocabulary used in JRules.
• Establishes conditions of interest (COI) and aggregates business logic.
• Extracts COBOL logic and converts it into JRules format while keeping the logic in sync.
• Exports the logic, formatted for importing into JRules.

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