Jeffrey L. Walker founded TenFold in 1993. From TenFold’s inception to October 1996, Mr. Walker was Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer. Before founding TenFold, Mr. Walker was an independent consultant from 1991 to 1993. From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Walker held several management positions at Oracle Corporation, including Executive Vice President and General Manager Applications Division, Chief Financial Officer (1987 to 1991), and Senior Vice President of Marketing (1986). Mr. Walker was the designer of Oracle’s applications products and founder of Oracle’s Applications Division.

Before joining Oracle, Mr. Walker founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Walker Interactive Products, an applications software company, from 1980 to 1985. Mr. Walker was the designer of Walker’s products. Prior to Walker Interactive, Mr. Walker was the founder CEO and sole proprietor of Jeffrey L. Walker & Company, a software and applications consulting company. Mr. Walker holds a BA in mathematics from Brown University.

Presentation
Exposing Legacy-System Functionality as SOA-Compliant Business Logic without Programming
Most companies have significant investments in legacy systems and bear considerable cost for any legacy-system maintenance. While the notion of converting legacy systems into services is appealing, the practical aspects of doing so can be challenging for several reasons:

• When publishing legacy functionality as a service requires maintenance to the legacy system, already stretched, legacy-system-maintenance resources are expensive and hard to obtain.
• Seldom are existing legacy-system connections publishable as a service in accord with current web service or other service connection standards.
• Often, publishing legacy functionality as a service requires enhancement to the legacy functionality that is difficult to afford and do.

TenFold is pursuing a strategy of helping its customers expose legacy-system functionality as a service, supporting such services as web services, and enhancing (adding value to) legacy-system functionality without requiring programming or the involvement of legacy-system programmers.

TenFold and its founders are business applications specialists and are pioneering a model-driven approach that exploits model-driven metadata to specify legacy-system connections (with or without added value) without programming. A model-driven approach offers a tenfold improvement in applications development time and cost as it replaces the traditional requirements-design-develop (program or generate)-compile-deploy methodology with describe-render-publish. A TenFold partner is using the approach discussed in this presentation to expose legacy functionality as a set of services.

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