Enterprise Legacy Modernization

Our Enterprise Legacy Modernization (ELM) solution is targeted to solve the critical legacy issues of cost, agility, complexity and shortage of skills. Through ELM, we can reduce mainframe application support and operations cost by 25 to 50 percent and help leverage and modernize your mainframe assets.

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We provide multiple benefits to customers, including:

• significant reduction of legacy application costs from day one
• deep and thorough understanding of the existing legacy application portfolio
• a rationalized portfolio and modernization plan
• increased value, longevity and performance of existing legacy platforms
• modernization and extension of legacy systems to support IT goals
• delivery of critical skills and an experienced and reliable mainframe labor force.

We deliver the ELM solution through our mainframe modernization framework, which is comprised of four core services: 

• Discover and Rationalize—captures an accurate inventory of all legacy application components through a top-down and bottom-up data acquisition strategy. We develop a rationalized plan to modernize the application portfolio, lowering cost and unlocking business value.
• Optimize—identifies and removes dead or redundant code and run-time operational efficiencies from your mainframe. Through active MIPS management, we can drive operations costs down and improve overall quality of service.
• Extend—packages mainframe application functionality for use as services that can be accessed by other applications in a distributed environment. We provide you with a fast, easy, reliable and secure way to expose mainframe applications as Web Services.
• Transform—renovates the persistence layer from VSAM to DB2, the application layer from COBOL to JAVA, or we can move your business functions off the mainframe.

In addition to offering a mainframe modernization framework, we provide Application Outsourcing, where we can retire your mainframe applications or provide long-term application maintenance through two services:

• Sunset/Retire—maintains low-value and/or end-of-life applications until retirement is possible and then we conduct an orderly shutdown to free up critical domain expertise.
• Sustain—we assume responsibility for production support and maintenance or full application life-cycle management.

The illustration below depicts our four core services in the mainframe modernization framework. Our approach demonstrates how we migrate a portfolio of applications through various phases of the modernization life cycle.

Interested in working with Professional Services? Please contact us at cpwrprofessionalservices@compuware.com.