Overview

Researchers say 70%-80% of the world’s enterprise data resides on mainframes and is manages by over 100+ billion lines of COBOL code. As per studies, Government agencies report that federal agencies are spending 70% of their IT budgets on maintaining legacy systems.

As per studies, more than $45 billion being spent on outdated systems, instead of developing new capabilities.

To stand in the competitive digital era, the IT platforms must be modernized to enable an agile, flexible, and adaptive response to changing business Initiatives and clients' needs. ITCrats has experience in successfully executing many such platforms and application modernizations to help harness the true potential of your IT infrastructure.

Legacy Modernization Services

Legacy Modernization Services is the ongoing process of transforming Legacy Systems to reduce IT environment operational complexity, costs, increase data consistency, enable collaboration across platforms and enhance process flexibility. It mainly transforming existing traditional systems into web-based thin client systems and integrate multiple related systems. The main challenge in legacy modernization is to ensure that the modernized system has similar capabilities with compatibility with existing data formats.

ITCrats make legacy systems more agile and efficient using intelligent automation, industrialized assets, specialized skills, and global delivery capabilities.

ITCrats legacy modernization expertise helps you to reimagine your core IT infrastructure with agile and resilient legacy modernization solutions to meet increasing business demands and mitigate transformation risks. ITCrats helped clients across industries with our breadth of modernization services including legacy system modernization, legacy application modernization, legacy system support, legacy application migration, legacy software support, and legacy software modernization.

Legacy Modernization Options

Mainframe modernization objective can be achieved through the following options:

Refactor
Rearchitect
  • Recompile and Migrate.
  • Public or Private Cloud.
  • No Change in Application Business Logic or UI.
  • Modernize Data Tier.
  • TCO Reduction up to 60%.
  • Restructure or Convert.
  • Remove Technical Debt.
  • Modernize the Technical Stack.
  • Supports Multiple Legacy Languages and RDBMS Stack.
  • Java Microservices Architecture.
  • Automatic Conversion (Source Code, Data, Security, Online/Batch).
  • Modernize Code and Data Tier.
  • Cloud-Native Technology Stack.

Legacy Modernization Process

Step 1: Analysis of the Existing Mainframe Systems
  • Source Code Analysis.
  • Analyze Legacy Architecture and Interface Points.
  • Cross-referencing of elements.
  • Identifies Missing Code, Unsupported and Dead Code.
  • Review of Existing Tools and Utilities and Replacements.
  • Analyze Data and Technologies.
Step 2: Replat form to Appropriate platform on On-Prem/Cloud
  • No Changes to UI.
  • Low Code Application development.
  • Modernized DBMS.
  • Modernized Distributed Systems Platform.
  • Reduced TCO and Fast ROI.

Advantages of Legacy Modernization are as follows:

  • Improved operational efficiency & reduce costs.
  • Increased Agility, development Velocity.
  • Accelerated Innovation by tapping into the Cloud-native ecosystem.
  • Increased competitive advantage.
  • Faster speed to market with high-performance applications.
  • Low Code, 10x faster development, Robust Scalable & secure IT Infra to meet changing business needs.
  • Reduce processing time.
  • Analyze frauds and prevent them from occurring in the future in less time.
  • Address mobility challenges.
  • Implement Business Intelligence into their core systems.

Benefits with ITCrats Modernization services

  • Data - Re-platforming enables the modernization of data (i.e., converted from mainframe EBCDIC to distributed ASCII format which is more portable).
  • Platform - Applications running on the distributed Linux platform (cloud or on-premises) with portable ASCII data enables easier integration with a multitude of technologies including open-source products which is not possible on the mainframe.
  • Technology: Enables easy integration with various technologies including JAVA, .Net, C++, Shell scripts, etc. which enables modernization of your applications in a modular approach rather than a big bang.

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