Software AG has announced plans to acquire Sabratec, developer of ApplinX. This acquisition will significantly expand Software AG's legacy modernization capabilities. Software AG's ApplinX product will enable organizations to more easily and comprehensively integrate their legacy systems with Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). In addition, ApplinX will help companies save time and cost in creating SOAs by turning COBOL/3GL applications into Web services, typically without the need to write new code.
Rather than requiring developers to restructure the COBOL/3GL "spaghetti code" at the core of many legacy applications, ApplinX captures vital business logic at the presentation level. For example, a repeated multi-step process used to enter a customer address change into a legacy accounting system can be captured intact (preserving transaction engines and business logic) and turned into a Web service. The Web service can then be invoked as part of a Service Oriented Architecture. This capability frees an organization's IT resources from the complex and time-consuming task of modifying or reconfiguring legacy system applications.
