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Is the Change the Project?

(Large Government Agency) has begun one of the largest government IT projects in (Country). (Large Government Agency) has a strong desire to move into the future, provide more efficient and user friendly systems with web and mobile interfaces, and move from 2 nd generation code based systems (requiring over 150 maintenance programmers) to a 5 th generation rules and workflow based system. Unfortunately failure to upgrade their software environment and approach in the past left them with not only 2 nd generation code and user interface (NATURAL by Software AG and 3270 green screens running in an IBM Mainframe environment) but with a 2 nd generation architecture . The mixed screen & processing logic, pure mainframe batch processing model and narrowly specialized data model was judged unable to be extended for use as a transaction engine or even be service enabled. Certainly no part of a 3270 green screen 80x25 character based user interface can carry forward into a web ...