Ramco Systems today announced a partnership with Relativity Technologies, a leader in application modernization, to enhance the legacy migration capabilities of the Ramco Business Process Platform™ (BPP). Using Relativity's best-of-breed analysis functionality to harvest and organize rich business logic models from existing applications, customers now have a fast, easy way to identify and transfer business rules and logic to the Ramco modeling environment. Business processes can then be updated or simply translated and stored as new business services to be used in more modern architectures.

More and more enterprises are embarking on projects to modernize their legacy applications and reuse valuable applications and assets in order to increase the flexibility of their critical business applications and save costs. Ramco’s BPP is an ideal solution for modernization because it helps preserve existing investments in application infrastructure and support an organization’s transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It is the only platform that provides complete and continuous alignment between business processes and applications along with the ability to change those applications on demand as business requirements shift. Based on SOA standards, the Ramco BPP provides a uniform, non-proprietary architecture that works with all technologies and infrastructure platforms. Relativity’s asset discovery functionality discovers and translates code from nearly any language, which ensures that Ramco customers can migrate legacy data quickly and easily to a more flexible platform.

“We evaluated different tools that support the rules discovery process. Relativity had the most comprehensive solution for the discovery process that extracts information at the most granular level from the code. This helps Ramco to accelerate the modernization process by importing rules and other entities like user interfaces, processing information into the Ramco BPP, and providing SOA-compliant applications,” said Raghuram D, vice president, technology, Ramco Systems. “The capabilities of the Ramco and Relativity products complement each other and enable customers to derive value from their legacy assets.”

Relativity Technologies' Modernization Workbench automates the discovery of business processes embedded within existing applications. The platform offers powerful tools to organize and contextualize the discovered business logic, ensuring that the meaning and value of existing processes is leveraged. This insight can then be seamlessly passed via open standards to the Ramco BPP to continue to model and modernize clients' business processes.

"Ramco is a recognized leader in providing highly adaptable enterprise applications that support more flexible business processes. We are pleased that they will leverage the asset discovery capabilities in our modernization workbench to speed the recovery and extension of the investment that companies have made in their existing operations while enhancing IT governance of applications," said Steve Maysonave, chairman, president, and CEO of Relativity Technologies.