SourceSentinel
is the world's first comprehensive solution that applies advanced automation to
ensure the integrity of enterprise-class application systems. Similar to a compiler,
SourceSentinel parses application program code. But instead of focusing on syntactical
language integrity as the compiler does, SourceSentinel semantically enforces business and
technology application integrity.
SourceSentinel can ensure that your applications conform to accepted industry practices as
well as your own organization's standards on key characteristics: integrity of business
rules and data values; Euro compliance; support for new regulations, laws, technologies or
business processes; adherence to integration strategies and standards compliance, and even
program complexity and maintainability. SourceSentinel provides all these capabilities yet
is quick to implement and transparent to development processes and operating procedures.
Background
As we already know, change is the only constant in both business
and technology. Unfortunately, any change, even the most simple, creates huge integrity
exposures for all enterprise applications. With the pace of change increasing, it is
becoming mandatory that IT organizations implement effective application integrity
management to prevent these systems from devolving into non-maintainable chaos.
Year 2000 compliance exemplifies the problem of enterprise application integrity. On the
surface what seemed like a simple change - adding two digits to a date field - created a
problem of previously unimaginable time, cost and risk. Yet the problem of maintaining
integrity while making changes has been this severe for years - as the first globally
shared problem, and with a fixed deadline, Y2K merely shed light on a previously latent
issue. Today's huge integrity challenge is how to avoid backsliding on already completed
Y2K remediation.
IT's new e-business applications illustrate another area where backsliding integrity risks
cannot be tolerated. When a back-office trading application at a traditional brokerage
firm goes down, few outside the company know it. But when internet-based e*Trade crashes,
it makes the front page of the Wall Street Journal. In an e-business world, integrity is a
critical business issue, no longer an IT nuisance.
Today, an automated application integrity manager is the next must-have software product
for enterprise computing.
SourceSentinel
Overview
SourceSentinel is the premier tool for automating application
integrity management. Through the flexibility of its customizable Integrity Compliance
Packs, SourceSentinel enables you to define what "integrity" means in your
organization. For the first time, you can be assured that integrity as you define it is
not compromised as changes are applied.
Key Features and Functions of
SourceSentinel
Integrity Compliance Packs that
enable you to select the areas of focus for your automated integrity management solution.
User-customizable integrity
rules that let you define your unique constraints for each of the Integrity Compliance
Packs. Rules can be targeted to apply to your entire enterprise, a specific application,
or only one program.
Integrity Management Reports
that clearly identify for both developers and managers where the integrity issues are in
your code.
Built-in buddy tracing
that identifies the characteristics of a field based on its interaction with another field
whose characteristics have been previously defined. Based on these buddies,
proposed new rules are automatically created for review.
A return code that is set based
on the severity of the non-compliance discovered. This may be used by post-compile
procedures to control subsequent processing steps such as linkedit or source management
check-in.
Invocation from any compilation
procedure. This includes standard test compile procedures or QA-to-Production turnover
compile procedures.
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