confluentminds - auto-creating logic execution hierarchy from source code and collaborating on cloud

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ConfluentMindsReverse Engineering &

socialization of Knowledge

Executive Summary

Duration: 30 min/30 slides


All Organizations having customized IT Systems or maintaining Clients’ IT Systems or building Software products,

The Elevator Pitch

Who worry about downtime due to attrition/ role change/ team shuffling,

We provide a reverse engineering & knowledge collaboration platform,

Unlike windows explorer kind of document store,

Moreover all these Logic Trees are auto-created from source code files.

we store System functionality as a tree structure with its nodes depicting knowledge units as Logic flow diagrams,

which helps visualizing the inter-dependency of knowledge units due to tree structure and quick understanding of knowledge units due to pictorial representation.

ConfluentMinds is a reverse engineering & knowledge management platform available on-Cloud/on-Premise, which lets Organizations quickly build, manage & collaborate their project knowledge in a systematic & diagrammatic manner.

IT Application KnowledgeDomain Knowledge

ConfluentMinds Solution Framework


ConfluentMinds’ Knowledge cycle


IT Application Knowledge

Deep dive IT Knowledge


Reverse engineering & auto-generate IT Knowledge

Auto-create knowledge for IT Applications

Currently java & pl/sql plug-ins are available for this.

www.ConfluentMinds.com 7Auto-create DFD from source code

Maintain Knowledge

Mark here

Standard off the shelf tools like “Code visual to Flow” creates Data flow Diagram corresponding to start & end line of any routine, in many languages.

Mark here


Upload Data flow Diagram corresponding to all routines & complete the Logic Tree

Maintain Knowledge


Explore IT Knowledge

Link Logic execution Tree with corresponding User Interface event

Group User Interfaces under a Process cycle aka Functional Layer

Group Functional Layers under an IT System


Definitive search feature leading to corresponding DFD directly

Search IT Knowledge Base

Search result points to the corresponding DFD directly


Integrated Approval Workflow for Knowledge units created by employees

Knowledge Approval

Once the logic tree is auto generated & all DFDs are uploaded, send to the System owner for approval


Bugs & Enhancements

Once a bug is found on any functionality, Create & upload Bug related SDLC documents

Change all the affected DFDs which got modified to fix this Bug.The Logic tree always remains up to date..


Secured Data access based on role & responsibility

Security

Assign Role to User

Assign a set of IT Systems to a Responsibility


Socialize Knowledge - Publish

Click the publish icon to expose the process treeunder this node to every one


Socialize Knowledge - Subscribe

View snapshot of the published System or Process

if interested then subscribe


Subscribed system appears under the root

Browse subscribed Knowledge

Socialize Knowledge - Subscribe


Knowledge creation cost Analysis Consider an oracle pl/sql package

with 500 lines of code having 2 main routines calling 16 routines internally.

Upload the pl/sql file. 2 Logic trees are created, having total 16 nodes corresponding to the internally called routines.

1 minute

Create 16 Dataflow diagrams corresponding to above 16 nodes.

• 15 minute per DFD manually, using Visio, Excel or Power point

• 7 minute per DFD using standard plug-ins viz: visustin, visual code flow generator etc and fine tuning

• Average 10 minute• 160 minutes total

Review, Finalize, Approve & Store

20 minute

Time RequiredAction Items


Domain Knowledge management

Deep dive Domain Knowledge


Auto-create knowledge of Business Processes

Domain Knowledge - Auto-generate


Maintain Knowledge

Upload suitable Process diagrams & brief description at each node

Drill down or up & navigate

Add / View Process Documents, notes & URLs

Process diagrams & description appears here


Navigation

Drilldown tree structure with

guided Navigation

Allows to focus on a subset of knowledge only, in detail

You can’t do this in Windows explorer kind of environment.

All the directories appear there always & you need to drill up or down one at a time.

Here you can choose view all or a sub-set with one click


Knowledge Hub

Search experts’ Knowledge Hub by name, category or key word.

Choose interested one and explore


Knowledge Hub

Give feed back, rate or ask a question to the expert on the selected process.


Maintaining Knowledge onDocument Management System

Knowledge stored as word, ppt or pdf Documents under various Directory Structure.

Add new Documents under some other directory

Add new Documents under some other directory

Not sure if any one document is latest

Latest document doesn’t contain all information

The Problem

Codes & Design docs not in sync Documents are inherently bulky

Documents sorted alphabetically,confused which to start & which is next

Bug Fix

The Problem Frequency & Cost analysis

Attrition 10~14%Once in every 2~3 years for All

Rightsizing as & when required

Bug fix as & when appears Once in 4~5 years

Productivity LossKT Cost

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Comparison with existing Products

Competitors with few similar features: A.Class Analyzer B.VisustinC.TOADD.Share Point like Doc management products

Reverse engineering tools showing Java Class structure as parent-child references (Competitor A)

Reverse engineering tools showing database package structure with its routines & source code (Competitor C)

Reverse engineering tools converting source code to flow diagrams (Competitor B)

• We show the execution hierachy for each java routine calling other routines as opposed to class diagram• We show the execution hierachy for each DB package routine calling other routines as opposed to showing routines of a package

• We don’t have this & use such tools as complementary utilities to build DFD

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Comparison with existing Products

No single document contains all information

Codes & Design docs not in sync

Documents sorted alphabetically,confused which to start & which next

• Knowledge units maintained as diagrams

• Guided navigation with Drilldown tree structure

• Single page Knowledge view

Documents are inherently bulky

• Flow diagrams are created from code and always up to date

Not sure if one document is latest • Single Point of Truth (SPOT)


• Auto-generates Knowledge • Approve & store knowledge• User generates content (UGC)• Secured access• Content Delivery Platform • Guided navigation with Drilldown

tree structure• Knowledge units as diagrams • Single page Knowledge view• Single Point of Truth (SPOT)• Collaborate knowledge with

peers• Great code review utility • Debug online• Approval workflow built-in• Existing Processes / IT

Applications mapping or migration

Summary

• Permanent Knowledge Asset• Transfers knowledge faster • Enables quick comprehension • Encourages Self learning • Eases IT Application support &

maintenance


Deployment & Cost structure

• On-premise • for Big Enterprises• Installation cost one time• Maintenance cost every

year• Knowledge creation cost

proportionate with source code

• Company firewall

• Social Media • for Knowlepdge Workers• FREMIUM subscription

• Software as a Service(SAAS) • For SMB Enterprises• No Installation cost• No Maintenance cost• Service charge per month per

user• Knowledge creation cost

proportionate with source code

• Cloud service provider’s firewall

On Cloud


Get started right away !!!

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FAQ

Q - We have a huge document repository. Do we have to copy all those to ConfluentMinds?A - No, You can link those from here using External URL icon provided at various places.Q – Why note icons are used in ConfluentMinds?A - Note icons let you store small amount of information eg: check points, process hints etc..Q - How is the Business Process tree structure created?A - ConfluentMinds lets you create the Business Process hierarchy manually by adding child nodes recursively under the root. It can also be created automatically from an excel file having data as per the template provided.

Q - How is the Business Process Diagram created and uploaded?A - You create the Business Process Diagrams manually and upload it at relevant process using the quick links. It can also be created automatically from an excel file having data as per the template provided. However complex diagrams can't be created using this.


Q - What is a Functional Layer?A - Any moderately complex IT Application might be having more than one major functionality. To distinguish between them, Functional Layers can be created otherwise you need to have only one layer eg: Core Functionality

Q - What is a Layer Element?A - A Layer element is nothing but a group of User Interfaces, Back ground Jobs etc. created to achieve the above said functionality. Some functionality may have both UIs and concurrent jobs or only one kind.

Q - How do I know what to do where?A - You can see "Context Help" in each page, where you want to create or store, knowledge artifacts. Follow the steps and match the result with the expected result screenshots.

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Q – How to map existing IT systems with ConfluentMinds?A – “Upload IT Applications & Application layers” functionality allows such mapping, using 2 excel templates, which need to be filled and loaded once initially.

Q - Can I create a Logic Tree manually?A - Yes, ConfluentMinds lets you build your own logic tree too. If any routine in a package doesn't call any other routine or is not called by any other routine then that routine will not appear anywhere in the auto-created Logic trees. For such individual routines you need to create manual logic trees with only one node.Q - How to create Data Flow Diagrams (DFD)?A - You need to create DFDs yourself, using any flowcharting tool or MS Word or Excel etc.. ConfluentMinds doesn't create DFDs but there are few automatic tools available in the market, which converts a piece of code to flow chart for variety of languages. Download those here Code to Flow and visustin.


Q - How is a Logic Tree created?A - ConfluentMinds creates logic trees automatically for Java Classes and PL/SQL packages now. Let's assume a pl/sql package has a routine p1 which calls another routine p1.1 and p1.2 available in same package. Again p1.1 calls p1.1.1 and p1.1.2 routines of the same package. Then confluentMinds create a tree structure as..

p1 p1.1 p1.1.1 p1.1.2 p1.2

Also the start and end line range of each routine appears next to its name. Similar trees can be created for Java classes too.

Once created you can manipulate the tree untill approval. Once approved, you can't see the tree in "Review Logic Tree" page.

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Q - What if a routine of one package calls another routine of another package?A - ConfluentMinds lets you create a complex tree like this using "Link Disparate Routines" functionality. Assume there are 2 trees of 2 different packages as..Package p Package qp1 p1.1 p1.1.1 p1.1.2 p1.2 q1 q1.1 q1.1.1 q1.1.2 q1.2Assume q1 is called from p1.2 of package p. Then link it mentioning q1 is child of p1.2 and the resultant package p will be ..Package p p1 p1.1 p1.1.1 p1.1.2 p1.2 q1 ~ 101 q1.1 ~ 101 q1.1.1 ~ 101 q1.1.2 ~ 101 q1.2 ~ 101

This allows you to visualize complex code dependencies from one place, without opening the source code files.

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