EZ Legacy Ltd. (EZSource)

Founded in 2003, EZ Legacy Ltd. (EZSource) works in the field of monitoring and management of corporate applications. Offices of the company are located in Israel, Great Britain, the USA, Switzerland, Japan and Romania. EZSource use more than 40 customers among whom there is ING Life, Maybank and 7-Eleven.

EZSource packet considerably reduces the cost of management of corporate applications, improves their development and operational maintenance, flexibility and quality and also reduces risks during the developing and service of applications.

2016: IBM buys the Israeli company on identification and application monitoring

In June, 2016 it became known that IBM is going to purchase EZ Legacy Ltd. (EZSource), the Israeli company on identification and application monitoring. Developers will be able to trace and change the code for the mainframe, being based on the data about control panels and other visual information. Modern applications consist of millions of code lines, and process of updating can take days or even weeks. EZSource developed the visual control panel allowing developers to detect quickly changes in applications. It will simplify process of upgrade of applications using API and will allow to use more effectively resources for development. Completion of the transaction is planned for the second quarter 2016 in accordance with the established procedure taking into account all requirements of the applicable law.

As expected, by 2017 80% of the enterprises will begin implementation of hybrid cloud strategy. At the same time, departments of information technologies look for new methods of upgrade of the available corporate applications for work with mobile and social ^[1] 68% of IT loading in the world are the share of mainframes. It includes about 30 billion business transactions performed every day including large bank transactions, credit card transactions and the stock trading. ^[2]

As the organizations carry out digital transformation and get into economy of API, it is important to improve interaction with consumers. For this purpose it is necessary to connect applications, key for business, on mainframes with mobile and cloud applicaions. The planned purchase of EZSource will help customers to find new ways of upgrade and updating of applications based on systems which are a support for world economy. Examination of IBM in digital transformation of business, API, a hybrid cloud and DevOps will be complemented with offers of EZSource on identification and the analysis of components of applications and their interrelations, will help to accelerate planning and transformation at decrease in number of failures. Solutions of IBM on management of API, including z/OS Connect and IBM API Connect, in combination with EZSource technology will allow to connect services on basic applications with new mobile, cloud, social and cognitive loadings.

Important aspect of upgrade of software is understanding that is already available at the enterprise. The current offers of IBM DevOps, for example IBM Application Delivery Foundation for z Systems and IBM Rational Team Concert, in combination with technology of identification of applications EZSource, allow developers to upgrade earlier created programs, under needs of business with decrease in a risk degree for the enterprise. EZSource warns developers about the number of the sections of the code getting access to separate objects, for example, to the table of the database. Thus, specialists can easily browse them and learn whether updates are necessary. Without the profound analytics used in the solution EZSource developers should check manually thousands or millions of code lines in hope to find out those which need to be changed, at the same time putting at all elements of a programming language at risk.