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Are you struggling to drive innovation and deliver more services on a flat or reduced IT budget? Are the costs of maintaining your existing applications preventing you from meeting new requirements?
As a cornerstone of Smarter Computing, the IBM enterprise modernization approach is one of continuous improvement that enables you to revitalize applications, leverage existing and new skills, unify teams and optimize your infrastructure -- all with the goal of helping you make breakthroughs in IT productivity, efficiency and innovation.
Enterprise modernization solutions can help you cost effectively and incrementally evolve your core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies for Smarter Computing. As a result you can leverage your existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and efforts and free-up resources to deliver new business requirements and create new, innovative capabilities that help you compete.
IBM enterprise modernization solutions provide you with the capability to:
- Increase flexibility and preserve investments by transforming existing IT assets
- Boost productivity with modern, multiplatform integrated development environments that provide a common developer desktop
- Enhance organizational agility by leveraging a collaborative lifecycle management infrastructure
- Improve application performance and scalability by leveraging the latest compilation technologies
- Support multiple platforms including System z®, zEnterprise™, Power Systems™, System x® and distributed environments
Real results
Trustmark National Bank needed to modernize its mainframe applications and give clients the Internet banking they expected -- but without rewriting program code. Enterprise Modernization capabilities from IBM helped Trustmark leverage Leveraging its original investment in reliable, business-tested applications, the company avoided the expense, time and risk of recoding while helping staff work faster and smarter.
At Cothern Computer Systems, developers can use a single familiar development environment for work on multiple servers and multiple languages. A familiar Eclipse interface improved productivity by 20 percent in just a week. Code is checked as it’s written using compile error feedback functionality, so code errors are seen immediately.
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Modernize the enterprise one step at a time
Saleem Padani, Enterprise Modernization Marketing Manager
The thought of modernizing enterprise systems can be overwhelming. Smarter software from IBM lets you tackle the problem in ways that make sense for your business. Establish an IT environment that is integrated, optimized and collaborative. Find the four key areas to free up resources and improve how IT and your business operate.
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Application modernization
Cost effective modernization approaches and techniques to transform your business critical systems into flexible applications and services.
Business planning and alignment
Deliver on enterprise strategy by ensuring resources, including IT, are deployed to maximize business value, while managing the risk and impact of change.
Multiplatform development
Integrated solutions to help boost productivity and reduce cost by streamlining development and deployment of multiplatform applications including System z and Power Systems.
Application lifecycle management
Coordinate the flow of people, processes and information across an iterative cycle of software delivery activities.
Compilers
Modern compilers to improve system utilization by exploiting IBM Power Systems, System z and zEnterprise Systems architecture.
Related solutions
Get more value - modernize, extend and reuse existing assets
Modernize and streamline the design, development and deployment of multiplatform applications including z/OS, AIX, IBM i, Linux and Windows.
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Featured enterprise modernization products
Rational Asset Analyzer family
An application discovery and analysis tool for improving your understanding and insight into relationships within and among mainframe and composite applications.
Rational Developer for System z family
The premier IDE for creating platform independent services and for building traditional and composite applications, including IBM CICS®, IMS™, COBOL, PL/I, Java, EGL, Web, Web 2.0, and XML-based applications.
Rational Developer for Power Systems Software
A comprehensive development environment for creating and maintaining applications on IBM AIX® and IBM i, including C/C++ and COBOL applications on AIX and RPG, COBOL, CL, and DDS applications on IBM i.
Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS)
Quickly transform your 3270 and 5250 green screen applications to intuitive Web, portlet, rich client or mobile device user interfaces, and extend 3270, 5250, and VT green screens as standard Web services.
Rational Team Concert
A unified and collaborative multiplatform team infrastructure including support for System z, IBM Power Systems™ and distributed systems to help streamline the entire application development and deployment life cycle across all operating environments.
Rational Power Appliance
Rational Power Appliance is the complete hardware and software solution for developing C/C++ and COBOL applications on IBM Power system.
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Modernization approaches and techniques to transform business critical systems into flexible applications and services.
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Application portfolio management
Streamline and optimize application and infrastructure portfolios ensuring alignment to business objectives.
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