Change and innovation is a must in business nowadays. While organizations are looking to innovate, they equally need to leverage their business DNA – the applications and data they use to perform vital business functions – embedded in their legacy systems. Doing so requires unlocking these assets from legacy systems. This is a process that has been and continues to be complex, in particular when a mainframe is involved, but thanks to modern technological methods, extracting these assets is now a viable route for organizations. It comes down to choosing the method that unlocks the relevant com ..read more

Recent research revealed that 89% of CIOs advised that digital transformation has accelerated in the last 12 months, while 58% predicted it would continue to speed up. As a result, businesses of all sizes are challenged with adopting a think fast, build fast and learn fast mentality to accelerate digital innovation ..read more

“I feel the need...the need for speed!”     That famous line from Top Gun  may be  about flying fighter jets but  it  could just as easily be the motto for  modern  businesses  that  are desperate to improve time to market. To keep up with stiff market competition and respond to customer demands, enterprises need to be able to deliver new software, products and services at break neck speed, but are often held back by their lack of IT agility. Thankfully, enterprise architects have their own Maverick and Goose double act to call upon - faster development  and  testing for their ..read more

Proving technical feasibility of a mainframe migration solution is no mean feat. In this blog we will analyse how we work hand-in-hand with our customers to assure them that decades old, highly reliable systems, can run in an open systems environment. We will also explore why the term “technical feasibility” can have a very different meaning from one project to the next ..read more

When it comes to the mainframe, understanding an environment can sometimes be one of the biggest challenges a company faces. This blog will examine why discovery is an essential first step on a mainframe modernization project. It will also examine the benefits of a thorough discovery process, and how we work hand-in-hand with each of our customers embarking on this journey ..read more

Those of us that work in IT sometimes forget that the word “legacy” wasn’t always associated with computers. What is the mainstream definition? A simple Google search can help ..read more

Tipping point: noun [ S or U] /ˈtɪp.ɪŋ ˌpɔɪnt/ The time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped Most IT leaders understand they must migrate away from legacy technologies before they reach a “tipping point” where inertia and declining support for these platforms present a genuine threat to business continuity. However, many leaders struggle to determine an exact business case for migration away from their mainframe. In our experience, four core factors should be considered if a business is to understand whether procrastination may indeed harm their business, and in what timeframe ..read more

Many organizations use tooling to facilitate faster development and maintenance of their legacy applications. One example is Delta ADS for COBOL and PL/I, tooling which helps companies maintain online and batch programs, independent of platform specific considerations such as operating system, database management system or monitoring ..read more

Companies seeking to migrate away from any legacy platform are faced with challenges in two key areas: Application and artefact knowledge – what do their applications do, is source code available, and what are the interconnections? Migration process – who will manage the complex process of determining project resource allocation, who within the internal team will manage it, and do they have experience of such a process? As a software provider, our goal is to develop technology that makes this process as smooth as is technically possible for our clients. However, in our experience, the succe ..read more

“Big problems are best solved in small pieces”   - Frank Sonnenberg We are working with a finance sector client which is looking to offload some of its production MIPS to the more cost effective Software Defined Mainframe (LzSDM). Like most finance sector clients the organization is extremely risk averse, very comfortable in the long history of reliability and performance provided by the legacy mainframe environment ..read more