Current software development approaches have failed to provide enterprises with sufficient flexibility and speed to respond and change to meet customer demands. In order to be customer-centric, companies need systems to support the way the business works. Ramco helps companies implement business processes more quickly and effectively by modeling and managing applications independently from the architecture or infrastructure. Ramco’s model-driven platform delivers global-class applications that are composed, not coded, using existing or newly created business assets that adapt and scale with IT infrastructure.

Ramco's model-driven platform provides complete and continuous alignment of business processes and applications by integrating process model blueprinting, services development, legacy migration, a business services repository, and an integrated services environment to assemble applications. Based on SOA standards, the platform provides a uniform, non-proprietary architecture that works with all technologies and infrastructure platforms. Composable enterprise applications are now a reality by leveraging over 1,000 pre-built business services or by creating new ones for easy and rapid reuse, with the highest level of software quality.

The platform follows a Model, Develop, Reuse, Catalog and Assemble metaphor. Keep reading for details.

Ramco's platform offers a unique blueprinting approach to creating model-driven applications. It features advanced capabilities to deliver a flexible process model that serves as the foundation for business applications that easily adapt to the enterprise. With the use of Ramco's modeling tool or the BPM tool of choice of the organization, Ramco's model-driven platform can accept a BPEL output and leverage it to generate application code. The model blueprinting capability of the platform can ensure that business applications continuously support the business processes and not become irrelevant or an inhibitor to innovation.

Ramco's model-driven platform enables the rapid development of new business applications. Business services are generated from the business model that results from this blueprinting process, ensuring a seamless alignment between your business goals and IT solutions. Because applications can be adapted and re-generated through the manipulation of models, rather than code, the enterprise can be responsive to changing customer and market conditions - not held hostage by their business software. Used to create customized business services or to modify existing services, Ramco's model-driven platform delivers enterprise-grade applications in much less time than traditional application development.

No enterprise begins application development from a green field. Any application in the organization's portfolio may warrant migration to a SOA or at a minimum, specific data assets can be reused in new composite applications. Ramco's model-driven platform features legacy data migration capabilities that dramatically increase the ease of reuse. The tedious process of discovery is eased through the use of automated code crawlers and an SOA wrapper to allow component reusability. Whether COBOL/RPG programs, JCL Batch Jobs, or OS routines and libraries are used in legacy applications, many of the processes, functions, and actions can be extracted automatically. This data is used to model new business services. Ramco's platform will help preserve existing investments in application infrastructure and support the organizations transition to a SOA.

An integral part of any comprehensive model-driven platform, a Business Services Repository (BSR) provides for the management and proper use of business services and data. It connects information and services from many sources, allows for robust reuse, and extensive configuration for the security and lifecycle of data and services. Ramco BSR combines many elements in addition to the services themselves including a registry, governing mechanisms, master data management, functionality and deployment containers. Ramco Business Services Repository uniquely provides both the framework as well as the pre-built services a company selects to populate it. Over time, it will serve as the central warehouse for the majority of business content - and its rules for use - for all enterprise services and applications.

Ramco Integrated Service Environment (ISE) assembles pre-configured or custom business services into a complete business application for deployment. It features all of the capabilities needed to compose, deliver and maintain enterprise applications. It embraces an assemble-first, process-oriented metaphor based on SOA principles. It leverages the other components of Ramco platform to automate most of the application assembly process using a combination of pre-configured and new customized business services. Best of all, Ramco ISE is compatible with most J2EE application servers and is platform-agnostic, producing applications for either J2EE or .NET with equal ease. Ramco model-driven platform provides consistent, reliable services assets ready for use and reuse across the organization on any platform and will yield orders of magnitude of costs savings compared to traditional methods.