The Question: How do you find an affordable solution to the "legacy" system you've been running for years, with its COBOL applications -- Mainframe or other older platform?
Our Answer: Translate then Update.
- Save up to 90% of your COBOL/CICS mainframe budget.
- Leave current business processes alone.
- Reduce Time / Talent / Risk to zero
- Use your existing testing suite Maintain in COBOL or Java
When Linux and Windows Intel MIPS are a hundred [100] times more cost-effective than an IBM mainframe, you have a lot to gain -- if you could get there... You could buy a 5-way, high availability, completely virtualized replacement, be faster, more secure, more connected, humming with current technology, save massively, pay later out of cost savings, handle staffing problems...
If you live in the real world with shrinking budgets, read on...
Why would you leave those old processes alone? Isn't that the point of modernization? Look: the biggest cause of failure is the risk that the entire process of modernizing will be too difficult, will never get done, that you'll double your strained budget and fail.
You need to move your applications to an affordable platform.
If you picked the right modernization tool, you could quickly, automatically move those "Big Apps" to a Java/J2EE compatible version, and maintain in both COBOL and Java...
Testing Suite? If you take Any Other Approach, you get to fabricate a testing and validation plan from scratch. That's very risky, intense, and laborious. It's simply painful.
To quickly get to that new Production Platform, we want you to use your existing Test Plan
The problem is this: if you want to do any of the "RE" efforts -- re-architect, re-design, rewrite, renovate, renew -- you have to start funding a parallel effort with big tech talent -- or put the entire effort at risk from the start. The staff -- the folks that administer your daily operations are probably not the guys to do that big "Re-Engineering" project
After 1000's of failed conversions, we have an answer that Really Works...!
Solutions
In the development of LegacyJ’s technologies over the past dozen years, the state of the art in “modernization issues” has changed significantly:
- Java / J2EE was released and has been materially enhanced
- Linux has become a mainstream operating environment
- Windows Servers and .Net have become “stable” enterprise platforms
- The myriad number of options for how to ameliorate COBOL/CICS mainframe budgets, staffing, and interoperability problems cause massive confusion and, often no action taken at all.