Mainframe modernization involves upgrading and enhancing legacy mainframe systems to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and integrate with modern technologies such as cloud, APIs, and mobile platforms.
Mainframe modernization helps reduce operational costs, improve system performance, and enable your organization to integrate with newer technologies, ensuring you stay competitive in a rapidly changing business environment.
Mainframe modernization can streamline operations, improve data access, reduce IT maintenance costs, and accelerate your ability to innovate, all of which contribute to better business outcomes.
Reducing mainframe costs can help your organization save on operational expenses, increase resource efficiency, and make better use of existing infrastructure, which leads to improved profitability.
Several tools are available for mainframe modernization, including IBM z/OS Connect, IBM Data Virtualization Manager, IBM ADDI, and various third-party solutions such as RES-IT's Docet/EV and Syncsort’s Ironstream.
IBM’s z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition simplifies how developers access and consume data and services hosted on IBM Z mainframes, enabling easier integration into modern applications and the API economy.
Yes, solutions like IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition enable non-mainframe professionals to access mainframe applications and data through modern APIs.
You can reduce ISV software costs by negotiating better terms, replacing expensive ISV products with IBM’s cost-effective solutions, or consolidating multiple ISV tools into a single solution.
IBM’s Common Data Provider for z Systems helps centralize mainframe operational data and stream it to analytics platforms like Splunk, enabling real-time insights and better decision-making.
The Smith Group partners with ISAM to provide detailed cost analysis, expert negotiation, and tools for reducing ISV software costs, helping clients achieve better pricing and maximize their mainframe investment.
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