01/06/2010 Are You Ready For R8? Automate Your CA Gen R8 Upgrade For A Faster Implementation.

Jumar is delighted to announce that its Project Phoenix Upgrade Analyser software for CA Gen is now fully certified for the newly-released CA Gen R8.

Project Phoenix automation is proven technology and has been used by many CA Gen organisations around the world for interrogating and manipulating their CA Gen models. The Upgrade Analyser tool allows you to plan and execute your upgrade project with confidence by identifying those areas of your models that may require change during an upgrade project. Certified by CA to help you upgrade to R8 immediately, the analyser's knowledgebase is continually updated with a register of potential impacts from each release which allows you to understand the actual implications of upgrading in the context of your own organisation's portfolio of CA Gen applications. So whichever releases you are upgrading from and to, the Project Phoenix analysis is completed only once but will highlight impacts across all the intermediate releases.

Our advanced issue identification comes from the functional changes between versions, our projects, our own internal usage of CA Gen and the in-depth beta testing of Version R8 carried out by our consultancy team; their broad experience of CA Gen applications is second to none in the industry.

A detailed understanding of the issues you have to address allows you to accurately estimate and plan the upgrade activities that need to be carried out. And Jumar's Upgrade Analyser even allows you to deal with new issues that may be found during the upgrade process – the underlying database of CA Gen model information is accessible and easy to query. Once the issues have been identified and quantified Jumar can work with you to apply the best suited remediation whether this is through automated or manual updating of models.

Upgrade Analyser is an add-on for Jumar's widely used Model Analyser tool. Model Analyser extracts data from CA Gen models at a unique level of detail enabling impact analysis and bottom up estimating to be done with unprecedented accuracy. A single query can provide an accurate response that might otherwise take days or even weeks of painstaking and error-prone manual analysis. The comprehensive nature of the impact analysis means that you can accurately estimate the effort involved in a particular change, and dramatically reduce risk because you can be certain that nothing is missed. Created in response to real-world project needs, Model Analyser’s capabilities are continually enhanced by knowledge gained from actual CA Gen project experiences around the world.