MainTrend Ltd. PowerBuilder Modernization Questionnaire Form

PowerBuilder Modernization Questionnaire Form

Your Contact Information:
1.	Email
2.	First Name
3.	Last Name
4.	Skype
5.	Phone
6.	Title
7.	Organization
8.	Country
General:
1.	What is the main business of your organization?
2.	Are the applications you want to modernize a part of your core business?
3.	What legacy development environments are in use (e.g. PowerBuilder, Delphi, Rally etc.) and what target environment do you want to have (e.g. .NET, Java)?
4.	What are the names of your legacy applications?
5.	How many man-years of development efforts were invested into the first major release of your applications?
6.	For how long are the applications in maintenance after the first major release?
7.	How many man-years of development efforts were invested into the maintenance?
8.	How many developers support the application now?
9.	How well is the application documented?
10.	Why do you want to move from the current platform ( business and technological drivers )?

To be more precise in our estimations we need your answers to some additional questions. Press the button to have the

Technical Information: (To get your statistical metrics you may need to download and use our PowerBuilder Analyzer. It requires Java 1.5 or higher installed)
1.	What PowerBuilder version do you use for your application?
2.	What framework do you use for your applications (for example, PFC - PowerBuilder Foundation Class Library)? If so, please add your framework measurements to your application measurements below.
3.	What is the total size of your applications (in Mbytes, total for all the files of your applications)?
4.	Total number of DataWindow objects?
5.	Total number of Window objects?
6.	Are there modal forms and dialogs? How many?
7.	Total number of non-visual UserObjects?
8.	Total number of visual UserObjects?
9.	What is the total number of menus?
10.	What is the total number of window controls?
11.	What is the total number of methods in all your objects?
12.	What is the total number of lines of code in methods?
13.	Are there external programs called from your application? If so, what are their nature ( custom written business logic, MS Office, communication etc. ) and how your applications communicate with these external programs?
14.	Is your business logic mostly incorporated within your PowerBuilder applications, or located externally? What is the average complication of your external logic?
15.	How many reports are there in all your PowerBuilder applications?
Databases:
1.	What database ( and how many databases ) do you use?
2.	What is the number of tables in all your databases?
3.	What is the number of views in all your databases?
4.	What is the number of stored procedures and functions in all your databases?
5.	Are database procedures used as data sources for the application objects or DataWindow objects?
6.	Is the database accessed directly from the application or via a middleware? If so, what middleware is used and how the applications communicate with the middleware?
Source Environment and Usage:
1.	Server-side operating systems and their versions?
2.	Client-side operating systems and their versions?
3.	Usage ( number of Users )
4.	Usage ( 24 x 7, working hours etc. )
Target Environment:
1.	What will be your server-side environment ( operation system, database, application server etc. )?
2.	What will be your network architecture ( central location, local offices, communication lines etc. )?
3.	What is your estimation for the overall quantity of end-users?
4.	How many end-users will work with the application simultaneously?
Modernization Project:
1.	What is your desired schedule for the project?
2.	Can your application be divided into independent parts, which can be modernized one after another?
3.	Whether and how the source application is supposed to be changed during the project?
4.	Additional notes