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Survey: Mainframe modernization strategies are evolving
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Modernization strategies crafted to achieve business goals, accelerated by proven solutions and designed to be maintainable, cost efficient, and multiplatform compatible.

Our collaborative and highly automated modernization approach is tailored to suit your organization’s needs – whatever industry you operate in, and at whichever stage you are at with your digital transformation journey. We bring an end-to-end suite of services and offerings to IBM that transform business data and applications, driving greater value to the business and maximizing both return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO).

With our world-renowned capabilities deep domain knowledge, certified skills, and long heritage in core application modernization, we can help facilitate your organization’s modernization journey in either an on-premises or hybrid cloud environment.

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Application modernization is essential to accelerating digital transformation and unlocking and enhancing the business value of your organization's mainframe.
Capabilities Assess and design

Our automated assessment service facilitates business rules extraction, code tracing, and documentation tools and services to significantly reduce your organization’s legacy code footprint.

Automated refactoring to Java, C# or COBOL

We offer fast and accurate code conversion with guaranteed like-for-like functionality. We are able to refactor COBOL, CICS, CA Gen, ADS/O and other languages to a more appropriate counterpart.

Portfolio optimization

Our optimization solutions are for customers who want to keep their IBM mainframe applications, reduce operational costs, and extend their capabilities to support new business requirements.

Data migration

In tandem with our refactoring solution, our automated solution delivers modern Cloud-enabled databases and supporting applications that are functionally equivalent to their original counterparts.

Data archiving

Our tools allow you to retain your legacy source code and data in an easily accessible repository when migrating away from the mainframe as part of an ERP implementation or re-engineering effort.

Natural and Adabas modernization

We offer both automated refactoring and rehosting solutions for Software AG (SAG) modernization – including Natural to COBOL, Java or C#, migrating Adabas data to a relational model and rehosting Natural applications in a hybrid environment.

Additionally, IBM ModernSystems also offer application modernization solutions for clients based on either OpenVMS or VME systems.
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Industries

Meet modern transactional demands Application and mainframe modernization is a crucial element of any transformation agenda for financial institutions striving for efficient business operations. It supports long-term viability of core systems, improves agility to stay ahead in a competitive market and manages exponential growth in data collection and transaction volumes.
Serve citizens more effectively Improving citizen services and experience through faster and more agile delivery of new features is a key focus area for the public sector. Application modernization can provide enhanced security and compliance with modernized infrastructure and applications,  increased efficiency through automation and cloud-based services,  and help address digital transformation and innovation initiatives.
Resources Blending mainframe power into the cloud computing landscape Why mainframe application modernization is key to accelerating digital transformation Annual Mainframe Modernization Business Barometer Report

Insights into how mainframe modernization strategies are evolving across industries, based on a survey of over 400 IT decision-makers worldwide.

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