The CORE Migration workbench provides a consistent and structured environment in which CORE Migration professionals execute all the tasks associated with the legacy migration process. The workbench has been designed to ensure consistency in approach and to guarantee that the results of the migration are predictable, repeatable and of the highest quality.

The components of the workbench include the following:

• Design Preservation Toolkit - A series of high-speed parsers that scans the legacy system data definitions and source code and creates the intermediary API files that are loaded into the repository.
  
• Repository - An object-oriented relational database and library of Application Programming Interfaces (API) that validate incoming data and ensure the recovered application is consistently represented and stored in the form of objects, methods and business rules that make up the underlying application.
  
• Forward Engineering Toolkit - An integrated application development toolkit that uses the information in the repository to perform an assortment of tasks including re-documentation, application and data definition navigation, and impact analysis as well as forward engineering to various target environments. The target application development environments and technologies currently generated by the tool include Microsoft .NET and PowerHouse porting. The target database environments include Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 and Informix (from Image, RMS, C-ISAM, Rdb, Eloquence, etc.).