Many large companies have millions of dollars worth of mainframe assets and core business applications that support the heart of the business. In fact, it's estimated that some US$5 trillion worth of applications -- critical business assets -- reside on today’s IBM mainframe systems.
The convergence of SOA and mainframe technologies can liberate these core business assets by making it easier to enrich, modernize, extend, and reuse them well beyond their original scope of design. As a result, you can deliver new value more rapidly, affordably, and at lower risk than by rebuilding and replacing what already works well for the business. That lets you streamline business processes and increase overall business flexibility.
The IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z™ is designed to help you quickly evaluate our latest products for modernizing and deploying core System z applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment without downloading and installing them.
The five modernization focus areas you can explore through this sandbox are:
Assets: Save time and money by reusing proven application assets. Discover, transform, reuse, and manage application assets from mainframe and distributed systems across the enterprise.
Architectures: Avoid costly and high risk rip-and-replace approaches by transforming core systems. Accelerate the adoption of SOA by rendering existing IT assets as services or components -- encouraging reuse and efficiency.
Skills: Increase productivity and break skill silos by simplifying your development environment. Leverage IBM’s newest business language, EGL, to achieve new levels of business value and innovation.
Processes and infrastructures:
Improve efficiency and lower costs by consolidating processes, tools, and infrastructures. Automate application quality, change, and release processes to help manage and enforce consistent development lifecycle across your enterprise.
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Investments:
Redirect IT staff and budgets to pursue new opportunities. Adopt an integrated, open, modular development platform to modernize and optimize application delivery across the enterprise.
