APG

APG gets the seal of approval from CA

ARIKAN Productivity Group (APG) is the latest official partner of CA – their ModelCVS technology has been stamped as CA Smart.

APG specializes in CA Gen. Their technologies contribute to the success of CA Gen in software modernization,state-of-the-art tool integration with Eclipse Modeling Framework and additional generations like UML2 diagrams.
Read the full testemonial here at CA’s partners site.

New whitepaper from ARIKAN – code restructuring

APG has produced a new paper in which they discuss code restructuring as part of a reverse engineering and modernisation exercise.

Code restructuring can be done in an automated fashion only if the meaning of the code is understood, rather than a line-for-line code transformation process.

ProgGen is such a tool – it can understand the semantic meaning of the code that it parses and allow the meaning of the code to decide what restructuring can be done. The power of the code restructuring toolset is that it takes the 3GL type code – PL/1, Natural, COBOL etc and creates a metamodel out of it, which can then be used to change the paradigms and indeed the language that the transformation is directed at.

This paper can be downloaded from here.

It is really worth a look, and demonstrates the power that APG can bring to bear on your Legacy systems to modernise them and restructure them into the bargain.

Gen Village makes first CAWorld 2008 Today !!!

The Gen Village was showcased at the CARE conference yesterday, and TODAY, it was mentioned in the first CA World 2008 paper! The article is on page 9 of a CA-Gen-littered paper (which can be seen here) – APG and Jumar are also mentioned in the newsletter!

APG arrives at CA World!

APG have arrived at CA World and posted the first posting from CAW2008 which will be displayed on the Flickr feed and in the Gen Village within Second Life – thanks to the guys from APG!

* for a reminder how YOU can post to this site AND the Gen Village during CA World 2008, see here *

APG@CAW2008

At CA World 2007 I was amazed at the number of Gen Partner vendors with booths and stands at the exhibition hall, and those running sessions- also, the number of innovative products that they were showcasing. 

APG was a vendor who I first became aware of 18 months ago. I’ve looked at their technology, and have been lucky enough to visit their offices in Vienna, and made some good friends there.

The technology that has been crafted by this skillful team needs to be seen to be believed – and you can at CA World 2008 !

This time, at CA World,  APG will have their own labs.

Labs allow you to see  the power of the tooling and what is possible – they give a first hand experience of what the tools can do and how they really to bring systems from years ago right up to date with Gen !

You can find APG at their stand (number 422B) in the exhibition hall – let them know you’re a Gentalk reader – in the meantime read more about their labs here.

MG115SN: ModelCVS: Legacy Renewal – Transformation from a PL/1 system into CA Gen
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
MG120LN: ModelCVS: CA Gen Enhancements Lab Part I
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
MG121LN: ModelCVS: CA Gen Enhancements Lab Part II
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM