Today your company is facing demands for new products and services, including global support for outsourced operations, integration with business partner and customer applications. Competitive factors are often driving new requirements. Frequently the IT organizations ability to rapidly respond to the business is severely limited by the architecture and years of evolution of existing systems. An incremental modernization approach leading to service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the path to provide the flexibility required to meet your business needs.
What we offer
To adopt an effective modernization approach you must first overcome the following challenges in your IT organization:
Understand and document business functions in existing systems
Identify functionality that can be reused for new systems
Enable existing and new IT staff to leverage modern architectures and technologies
Enhance team collaboration and productivity
Free up maintenance budgets for new development
The IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions help organizations cost-effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies—reducing maintenance burden and freeing up more of your resources to focus on developing new business requirements and capabilities.
The IBM enterprise modernization solutions difference
IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions are supported by an experienced worldwide staff of professional services consultants to help implement solutions and support your staff throughout the entire application modernization process—from discovery, analysis, modeling and design to assembly, test, deployment and management for System z, System i and distributed platforms. IBM brings proven methods, techniques, tools and skills, and a collaborative approach to support you through the whole process. IBM can help you:
Unlock core business application components by reusing proven, time-tested applications that can significantly lower risk, reduce costs and speed time to market.
Lower your support costs by reducing duplicate application components and information.
Simplify your technology profile by reducing integration complexity and resolving maintenance hotspots to establish a more agile application portfolio.
Extend flexible reuse and connectivity of core application assets and information across your enterprise with our extensive experience leveraging the value of SOA.