Press Release

QA Technologies Announces QAT Genesis – A New Legacy Modernization Offering to Help Businesses Transform Legacy Applications

Omaha, NE, September 30, 2009

QAT today announced a new solution that will help customers create an agile enterprise and reduce costs by incrementally transforming their enterprise applications into modern web applications that provide high business value features to the organization with less risk, time and total cost of ownership (TCO).  All organizations use software applications as part of their daily operations. These applications must be fast, flexible and cost effective. Those that are unable to meet constantly changing requirements are considered legacy applications.

Although key to the organization, these applications can be difficult to modify and enhance because of their complex nature and maturity. This can result in high cost of ownership and inflexibility to meet business requirements.

To modernize legacy applications, QAT has introduced QAT Genesis. QAT Genesis uses automation in order to rapidly modernize legacy applications and, at the same time, add new high value business features that enable the business to realize significant returns from the modernization.  The organization will have the control to manage changes in their work process without sending every change back through the traditional development cycle.  The organization’s IT will be more aligned with the needs of the business and will have the tools to rapidly deliver what the business needs.

Reducing Risk with QAT Genesis

Reducing risk to the business is a major benefit of QAT Genesis.  Risk is reduced in three ways.  First, it provides modernization in short-term increments, with each increment being delivered as a portion of a complete solution making it possible to pause if the budget is under pressure.  Second, it enables the business with the technology to provide for itself rather than locking it into a long term consulting engagement.  Lastly, it allows the most appropriate technology to be integrated into the application based on both the skills of the development group and the capabilities of the various technologies. Having the freedom to integrate other technology as needed is necessary to minimize the technical risk.

Most importantly, QAT Genesis delivers true modernization on a realistic budget so organizations can accomplish their legacy modernization goals.

QAT Genesis is an effective combination of services and software automation, which includes the following:

Software

• QAT WebDaptive – Development / Runtime Web Framework
• QAT Flow – Business Process Automation and Orchestration
• QAT DDM – Automated Table Maintenance
• QAT Security – Application Security

Services

• Solution Mapping – Mapping Legacy Application Elements to QAT Genesis
• Training – QAT Software Training
• Process Development – QAT Flow Process Development and Mentoring

QAT Genesis also includes the following specialty software and services specifically for CA Gen customers to achieve rapid application development and maintenance.

Software

• QAT Wizard – RAD for CA Gen traditional and CBD development
• QAT Publisher – Publishing Reports and Other Information for CA Gen

Services

• Custom Gen Automation – Custom Services to Automate Model Changes

The new solution offers services to assist customers with all phases of modernization.  "QAT's new legacy modernization solution provides the tools to incrementally modernize legacy applications and enable customers with more flexibility and control than ever before." said Rollie Stephens, vice president, QA Technologies. "Combined with QAT's deep services expertise, QAT Genesis provides customers with a high value, cost-effective method to modernize and enhance legacy applications."

Modernization capabilities are part of QAT's comprehensive portfolio of solutions. More information about QAT Genesis is available at http://www.qat.com/ms_legacy.asp.  For more information about QAT Genesis’ special features for CA Gen users, please visit http://www.qat-gen.com/gen_ms_legacyX.shtml.

Notes to Editors
For more information, please contact Chuck Snyder at 402-391-9200 or chuck_snyder@qat.com.

About QAT
QAT is a leading global services and products provider specializing in the use of application delivery technologies ranging across Java (J2SE & J2EE), .NET, Web services, SOA, and CA Gen solutions. QAT’s primary competitive advantage is our focus and unique ability to develop and deploy enterprise-level e-business systems that leverage the strengths of each of the previously mentioned core competencies.. More information about QAT is available at http://www.qat.com.

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