Relativity transforms itself

Relativity Technologies on Monday named a new CEO, detailed a refocused corporate mission, and launched an upgraded version of its product suite. 

Former CEO and founder VivekWadhwa will remain as chairman but handed the chief executive and president reins over to Steve Maysonave, a veteran who has worked at Intel and Informix.

Maysonave said that Relativity, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is shifting its concentration away from the transformation of legacy applications toward modernization.

“We’re focusing on products with a very specific ROI model and focusing on an incremental approach, with a road map to help customers move toward modernization,” Maysonave said.

To that end, Relativity renamed its RescueWare product set as the Modernization Workbench and enhanced the four modules that comprise it: Application Analyzer, Application Architect, Business Rules Manager, and Transformation Assistant.

Modernization Workbench and its modules are designed to help customers maintain and enhance COBOL code, re-architect applications, and modernize applications, according to Charles Dickerson, vice president of marketing at Relativity. 

Relativity added to Application Analyzer the ability to generate HTML-based documentation, which enables customers to provide information about applications via a browser.

New to the Application Architect module is functionality to identify and eliminate dead code, and XML generation to communicate with SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).

Dickerson said that the Business Rules Manager now has features that identify source code that is a candidate for being a business rule and enables developers to describe, itemize, and catalog that code. The final piece, Transformation Assistant, adds new language support.

Relativity’s Modernization Workbench will ship in the second quarter of this year.