IT organizations are under pressure to cut costs and generate fresh revenue streams with customer-facing applications. Over 70% of the world's corporate data is stored on OS/390 systems, whose power, reliability and security continue to drive the world's biggest organizations. As a result, organizations are focusing on renewing and extending their strategic OS/390 applications to meet their customers' changing business needs. The challenge is to combine the proven power, reliability and security of the OS/390 with emerging technologies such as the Internet.
Successful legacy projects deliver a number of important business benefits including:
Increased return on Y2K investments
The ability to implement e-commerce and client/server technologies with core legacy transactions
The ability to extend legacy applications to new and remote users
Powerful new functionality with the addition of custom and packaged functionality
Greater reuse of legacy assets using component-based development.
