Renovation by Machine-Assisted Program Transformation in Production Reporting and Integration

Abstract

In corporate IT, subject areas like Production Reporting and Enterprise Application Integration are routinely considered in isolation. Needs are often met by purchasing separate product suites or packages, which can be incompatible, and contain unused overlapping functionality. In this paper we discuss our experience of applying a more holistic approach. We look at how purchased software can be extended in-house with the help of a program transformation technique, and can then be utilised in a service-oriented architecture for the purposes of information retrieval, data and process integration. By reusing software components for reporting and integration purposes, we have been able to realise savings in all phases of the software lifecycle.