Metrixware adds ABAP (SAP) and SIEBEL to System Code, its solution for application mapping and quality analysis

Metrixware has added the ABAP and SIEBEL language analysers to its qualimetric and application charting solution, on top of the 40+ existing languages already covered by System Code

Metrixware, the producer of software solutions dedicated to regaining knowledge, to managing and valorising application assets, widens its flagship solution's scope with the addition of language analysers for ABAP (the SAP development language) and SIEBEL (the well-known CRM solution from ORACLE). Both ABAP and SIEBEL join the list of 40+ existing language analysers (Java, COBOL, J2EE, PacBase, C#, C++, VB, PHP, etc.) present in System Code, the solution for application mapping and quality analysis.

Inevitable custom developments

Even though SAP and Siebel offer a wealth of features, they cannot adapt to every company out of the box, without requiring some adjustments, parameter tuning and custom developments. In many cases, the quality of those developments has a direct impact on the solution's long term performance and reliability levels, like for any other application.

In order to take up this challenge, Metrixware's flagship solution System Code has thence the capability to audit the code developed for SAP and Siebel, to extract and present the IT Management with structured information ("Quality Analysis"), which enables them to pinpoint potential quality drifts. Of course technical drifts (bad code, maintenance, performance or evolutivity difficulties, etc.), but also –as a direct consequence– financial impact.

Those quality analyses are crucial, as a guideline for managing internal development & maintenance teams, as well as in the scope of an integration contract, or as a benchmark for outsourced application maintenance.

Examples of Quality Controls
• Code Quality: Maintainability, evolutivity and reliability grades
• Performance: No SELECT inside a WHILE
• Dead Code : Code lines, unused files and variables
• Documentation: Detection of undocumented programs, files and functions
• Architecture: Maximal 20 decisions per function
• Architecture: IF/DO nesting level < 6

Siebel – scattered codes sources

Siebel offers several specific development, integration, and complex feature implementation methods. Contrary to the vast majority of languages, Siebel source codes are not found in text files but scattered inside a dedicated database. The mere analysis of development rules is not sufficient here; the values of certain object properties must also be taken into account.

Based on the recommendations from Siebel's own project teams, the Siebel analyser for System Code seamlessly deals with those particularities. Also, for obvious security reasons, the analyser does not directly query the Siebel database but rather analyses an XML export file.

» About metrixware
Software solution editor dedicated to regaining knowledge, managing and optimizing application assets, Metrixware is present in the Application Asset Management and IT Governance markets since 1995.

Through its products and services, Metrixware replies to the challenges confronting IT managers concerning the optimum management of their IT assets in a context of IT modernization (TPM, migration, process optimization, maintenance, etc). The cornerstone of our offer, System Code is an Application Portfolio Management (APM) solution enabling IT managers to have a rich vision of the state of their application assets, allowing them to identify strengths and weaknesses, and to make informed management decisions.

Among its clients, Metrixware includes a number of companies in the banking sector (BNP Paribas, Société Générale, LCL, Caisse d'Épargne), in insurance (CNP Assurances, Generali), the public sector (Ministère de l'Écologie, EDF) and telecommunication services (Logica, Orange).

Contact
Zineb AMRANI | METRIXWARE
Field Marketing

Tel. : +33 1 55 69 32 20
Fax : +33 1 46 69 08 32

Metrixware
87 Avenue François Arago, 92017 Nanterre Cedex
France

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