Nexaweb
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Nexaweb offers application modernization
Software modernization
Legacy Modernization, or Software modernization, refers to the conversion, rewriting or porting of a legacy system to a modern computer programming language, software libraries, protocols, or hardware platform...

 software and services that target client/server applications developed using popular 4GL tools such as PowerBuilder. The company’s client/server application modernization solutions are designed to transform legacy systems into modern web applications that use cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

 platforms.

Market Need

Forrester Research
Forrester Research
Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Forrester Research has five research centers in the US: Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; San Francisco, California;...

’s analysis of 562 companies in North America and Europe showed that 55% of current IT budgets are dedicated to maintaining systems and business processes that are up to 20 years old.1
At the same time, the cost of maintaining legacy client/server software applications is increasing and the number of IT professionals capable of supporting client/server applications and programming languages is shrinking. 2
Gartner
Gartner
Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....

 Research recommends that organizations fund an application modernization program today to avoid the “train wreck” that will result from any delay:

“Most IT portfolios have grown up haphazardly throughout the years, mixing technologies, vendors and architectures that require increasing resources to manage. An overhaul initiative works with the application strategy to drive the IT organization to achieve a desired state, usually with the intent of modernizing it. Note that it is not just buying new computers. Modernization is about creating a more-flexible and dynamic IT environment.”3

Nexaweb Technology

The Nexaweb Enterprise Web Suite (Nexaweb EWS) includes legacy code analysis and capture tools and cloud application reference frameworks for Java
Java
Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...

 and Ajax
Ajax (programming)
Ajax is a group of interrelated web development methods used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications...

.

Nexaweb Studio is an Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that enables visual, drag-drop development of rich internet applications (RIAs).

The Nexaweb Internet Messaging Bus™ provides reliable, secure, two-way message processing between web application servers and browser clients.

Nexaweb acclerators are pre-built, customizable end-user RIA templates for modernization in specific domains such as Treasury/Foreign Exchange (FX) trading.

Customers

Nexaweb has more than 200 customers, including Aflac Japan, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, EMC, Nokia Siemens, Pepsi Bottling Group and Rabobank, and has had its solutions deployed at more than 7,500 enterprises.

Organization and Offices

Nexaweb is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with sales and service offices in Japan and the Netherlands. The company also has technical consultants in Tokyo and outsources elements of its software development in China.

See also

  • Software application modernization
    Software modernization
    Legacy Modernization, or Software modernization, refers to the conversion, rewriting or porting of a legacy system to a modern computer programming language, software libraries, protocols, or hardware platform...

  • RIA
    Rich Internet application
    A Rich Internet Application is a Web application that has many of the characteristics of desktop application software, typically delivered either by way of a site-specific browser, via a browser plug-in, independent sandboxes, extensive use of JavaScript, or virtual machines...


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