The need to cut costs while keeping up with change constantly challenges all companies, but these challenges are more acute with companies on legacy mainframes. Legacy mainframes create a huge IT footprint, require too much power and tie you down with other costs such as monthly license charges (MLCs). You lose the ability to pursue opportunities, because your IT departments must focus on maintenance instead of innovation. Your applications may also be at risk, because you must make an uncomfortable decision between a large-scale upgrade and keeping applications in a costly environment.
Modernization offers several benefits, but it’s important to take risk and impact into account. With our help, you can implement a modernization strategy that brings your business goals within reach.
As an Alchemy, Micro Focus and Microsoft partner, the Idea modernization practice provides a full spectrum of information technology services and products that allow clients to build robust mission-critical applications and re-host existing applications to modernized platforms. But platform modernization means more than just re-hosting applications. It includes a variety of services including:
- Assessments
- ROI studies
- Application re-platforming and migration
- Re-hosting applications
- Rewriting applications
- Code transformation
- Platform integration
- Package implementation
- Application extension
- Training and transfer
If you’ve reached a point of impasse or you’re faced with mandates that you can’t achieve with your current IT resources, we can help you determine the best course of action and develop a strategic plan for its implementation. At Idea, we have the tools to assist you, as well as the experience and expertise to remove the risk from modernizing your applications and infrastructure. For more information on legacy modernization to specific platforms, see our white papers below.
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