Benchmark Consulting Releases IRIS™2.7 in Support of Open Application Modernization Standards

Atlanta, Georgia and Montreal, Quebec - Benchmark Consulting, a leading global provider of modernization solutions for legacy information systems and business processes, today announced support for the open standard OMG KDM repository within its application modernization platform, IRIS™.

In the latest release of its flagship integrated application modernization platform, Benchmark Consulting will support the Object Management Group (OMG) standard Knowledge Discovery Meta-model (KDM). The KDM is an open standard that defines a model-driven view of application meta-data. The standard provides the structure for detailed analysis of application environments relative to data flow, processes, functions, code issues, interfaces and more. The KDM offers modernization vendors the ability to exchange system information and guarantee clients, mainly in heterogeneous environments, that solutions based on the standard will be portable and interoperable.

Within IRIS™2.7 is the ability to thoroughly analyze and decompose a legacy application environment and represent the system as a KDM model. Furthermore, IRIS™ can perform analysis and transformations on that model in order to migrate, translate, re-factor or simply document the application.

“We are very excited to announce the scheduled release of IRIS™2.7” said Alain Picard, Benchmark Consulting chief strategy officer. “This new release introduces our official support for the standard based KDM as our internal repository. The KDM provides us with a comprehensive platform level repository, facilitating full system analysis and modernization. This version will include the first complete set of tools to analyze and transform COBOL based mainframe systems into new technologies. With these new capabilities, IRIS™ is leading the next generation of application modernization tools by enabling truly intelligent re-engineering.”

As part of the full legacy transformation lifecycle, IRIS™ technology automates significant migration tasks for COBOL to COBOL platform migrations, procedural to object-oriented application re-writes, 32-bit to 64-bit conversions and custom tailored modernization projects

“Through the use of the IRIS™ modernization platform, Benchmark Consulting can employ a standardized, model-driven approach to system transformation“ said Bill Weaver, Benchmark Consulting chief executive officer. “This will allow organizations to rapidly and cost effectively evolve and modernize legacy applications and allow them to migrate to or better co-exist with current technologies. IRIS™2.7 is a testament to our commitment to open standards and to keeping IRIS™ at the forefront of modernization tools.”

About Benchmark Consulting (www.benchmarkconsulting.com)

Benchmark Consulting is a leading global provider of modernization solutions for legacy information systems and business processes. Its unique and revolutionary application modernization platform, IRIS™, and business process services help customers grow revenue, reduce costs, shorten time to market, and extend the ROI of their existing legacy systems. With IRIS™, Benchmark Consulting is unique in addressing the full range of IT modernization through automated migration solutions that mitigate risk, minimize IT downtime, and preserve application business logic. Benchmark Consulting offerings enable database, application, and platform migrations, system standardizations, application development and redevelopment; and application outsourcing.