ASG Launches ASG-becubic Version 6.0 -- Re-Brands Technology as ASG-Application DNA.

NAPLES, Fla. & PHOENIX -- New Application Modernization Enabler Simplifies Application Portfolio Optimization Processes in Mainframe and Distributed Environments

ASG, an enterprise software and professional services provider to Global 5000 companies, announced today the availability

of ASG-becubic(TM) Version 6.0 at the Gartner Application Development Summit in Phoenix, Ariz. Featuring new enhancements that broaden the solution's core functionality and expand the modernization environments it supports, ASG-becubic v6.0 enables organizations to discover, understand and analyze existing applications implemented in more than 125 different technology environments. ASG will re-brand the technology as ASG-Application DNA(TM).

"Leveraging assets in new forms eases technology transitions and improves the economics of development," said Dale Vecchio, research director at Gartner Research. "(Legacy Modernization is) the ability to transform an established application to a more-modern architecture (or language). Issues include language understanding, business rule extraction, code slicing, and procedural to object wrapping or restructuring," he added.

"With the new functionality built into ASG-becubic, we think that we have 'cracked the code' in order to allow users to understand application interconnectivity. Therefore, we will re-brand ASG-becubic as ASG-Application DNA," said John Connor, senior vice president of product management at ASG. "This is the first product to allow you to truly understand how your applications and data are inter-related -- across your entire enterprise."

ASG-Application DNA integrates with a variety of version control tools to automatically keep existing application information up to date. Whether the application installation is known and on the mainframe, or is unknown and distributed on the network, ASG-Application DNA discovers, analyzes and provides information on application structure, inventory, health, complexity, maintainability and other issues. ASG-Application DNA's graphically-rich, industry-standard user interface also offers ease of use and a variety of dynamic graphs with different layouts.

ASG President and CEO Arthur L. Allen said, "ASG-Application DNA is a market-leading multi-technology repository and legacy modernization tool that automates an application's re-documentation process and greatly reduces the time and costs necessary to share detailed information between everyone in the organization. ASG-Application DNA greatly advances the solution's support of ASG clients' evolution toward distributed and service-oriented architectures."

ASG-Application DNA is a comprehensive solution that integrates three market-leading ASG-becubic products: ASG-becubic services(TM), ASG-becubic legacy(TM) and ASG-becubic legacy(TM) for Modernization. ASG-Application DNA supports leading-edge technology environments, enhanced versioning and security, new APIs and queries, third-party functionality plug-ins and reports with sophisticated graphics handling generated in Microsoft Word. The product also utilizes the industry-standard Eclipse user interface framework, is model-compliant with OMG's Meta-Object Facility (MOF(TM)) standard and offers dynamic model management and multiple tool database implementations. It has the ability to create and maintain objects through multiple sources, and it offers open tool support by accepting plug-ins to its functionality and by acting as a plug-in for many popular existing IDEs. Finally, through its integration with ASG-Rochade(TM), the market-leading metadata repository, ASG-Application DNA greatly enhances ASG's Metadata Management solution.

ASG-Application DNA provides the infrastructure for building an Integrated Modernization Environment (IME) that understands, cleans, restructures, transforms and enables optimal reuse of existing applications to reduce total cost of software ownership, extend application life and improve business agility by leveraging valuable organizational IT software assets.

About ASG

Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held global enterprise software and professional services firm that provides a full range of software solutions in the Security Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Information Management, Performance Management and Infrastructure Management arenas -- including business re-engineering, systems integration and systems development. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA, with more than 45 offices serving the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia/Pacific. For more information, visit ASG at http://www.asg.com.

To schedule an interview with an ASG professional, contact Eric Sommerton at 1.239.435.2015 or e-mail eric.sommerton@asg.com.