Business systems modernization overview

Business systems modernization helps you cost-effectively and incrementally evolve your core IT systems toward modern architectures and technologies for Smarter Computing. You can leverage your existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and effort, and freeyour people power to deliver new business requirements and create newinnovative. Business systems modernization solutions increase your capabilities so that you can:

• Translate your enterprise strategy into plans for deployment of business and IT, using enterprise architecture software.
• Support multiple platforms, including IBM® System z®, zEnterprise™, Power Systems™, System x®, and distributed environments with the Rational compilers.
• Use your Eclipse-based development environment to build cross-platform applications.
• Reduce the cost of maintenance and operations and increase business agility by transforming your existing application portfolio.
• Reduce IT costs and get in sync with your customers' needs.
• Minimize risk and achieve quick return on investment (ROI) with Rationalsoftware modernization tools.

Compilers are the software to improve system utilization by exploiting IBM Power Systems, System z and zEnterprise Systems architecture.

Cross-platform development uses the modern Eclipse-based integrated development environment for building multi-platform applications.

Enterprise architecture is the effective translation of enterprise strategy into plans for deployment of business and IT resources

Application portfolio management is optimization and rationalization for simplified IT and room to drive innovation and value.

Software modernization covers the approaches and techniques to transform business critical systems into flexible applications and services.