05/13/2008

Today's 'flat world' mandates that organizations can quickly reconfigure their operational processes to address emerging business needs. But when these processes are misaligned with the applications that automate them, efficiency and flexibility are compromised -- and market opportunities are lost.

ebizQ received the following:

Relativity Technologies, Inc., the global leader in Enterprise Application Modernization, is working with Infosys Technologies Limited to address this challenge. Through this collaboration, Relativity Technologies' Modernization Workbench® platform integrates with the Infosys InFlux™ methodology. This ensures that clients' business processes can be efficiently realigned with strategic imperatives - - delivering more agile applications with less cost and risk.

Highlights of the agreement include:

• Accelerated Business Process Discovery: Infosys will deploy the platform at its dedicated modernization centers to automate the discovery and disaggregation of clients’ existing business processes. The resulting repository of process models ensures that clients' operations are thoroughly understood and leveraged in any modernization initiative.



• Integration with InFlux: Infosys has relied on the InFlux framework to define and execute application modernization engagements. Through the integration announced today, business processes in clients' applications will be uncovered and modeled by the Modernization Workbench, and then seamlessly passed to InFlux. These models can be efficiently refined and redeveloped within InFlux to yield applications that better support clients’ operations.

"To realign operations to meet your strategic goals, you must first understand and model current business processes," said Subu Goparaju, VP and Head of SETLabs with Infosys. "We selected the Modernization Workbench because of its ability to accelerate the understanding of clients’ business processes encapsulated in legacy systems -- a fact validated at our own concept centers. Our joint R&D and integration effort allows Infosys to offer high value solutions to our clients such as our legacy modernization solution, part of Catalytic IT solution suite."

"We are pleased to partner with Infosys, a recognized pioneer in the delivery of business-centric modernization initiatives," said Steve Maysonave, chairman, president, and CEO of Relativity Technologies. "Our software platform's unique ability to discover business rules and processes within existing applications enables organizations to adapt to today’s hyper-competitive world. The endorsement of the Modernization Workbench and integration with InFlux further demonstrates our technical leadership."

"CIOs must prioritize the modernization of their existing applications to minimize risk and ensure agility,” said Dale Vecchio, research vice president at Gartner. “As they do so, it is critical that they understand the business processes instantiated in these systems and the relationships that exist across applications. Modernizing an application portfolio is inherently related to the underlying infrastructure and this level of understanding is imperative for success."