Information Systems: A Management Perspective

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From legacy software to e-business

The Web site for Relativity Technologies states that it provides "transformation solutions" that help companies deploy strategic e-business applications while leveraging their massive investment in legacy systems. Their RescueWare technology improves the economics of e-Business modernization by automating the transformation of business-critical legacy systems.

http://www.relativity.com/

Questions:

  1. Relativity states that RescueWare is "the first end-to-end solution to automate, simplify and speed the transformation of legacy systems to component-based architectures and modern technology platforms." Summarize Relativity's process of performing this transformation.

  2. RescueWare is designed to perform what Relativity calls "knowledge mining." Define Relativity's concept of knowledge mining and summarize how it works.

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