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Modernization
Structured approaches to system modernization and mainframe migration help us to identify the most cost effective solutions
Constant downward pressure on costs, the attraction of ubiquitous standards-based programming skills, the increased programmer productivity offered by the newest tools and the desire to reuse existing IT systems for new purposes are all factors driving our clients to modernize their IT portfolio. Whether a client is heavily reliant on giant mainframe systems or has a very fragmented set of legacy applications, either of which is expensive to maintain, Saggezza can help.
Our modernization services are focused on reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), improving the ability of systems to support changing business strategy and simplifying the management of the IT portfolio. Our unique ability to tackle clients' highest value challenges, to use the very latest technologies and to optimize cost using a mixed-shore delivery model, mean we're a reliable modernization partner to CIOs and senior managers.
Saggezza's modernization offering:
- Takes a unified approach
- Makes smaller, more incremental changes
- Leverages existing systems
- Views IT investments as a portfolio
- Looks at end-to-end cost of ownership
Case studies show that modernization initiatives have many benefits:
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Significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership:
licenses for the latest technologies are significantly cheaper (Microsoft etc.) than mainframe licenses or even free (open source) - savings of 80% are realistic in some environments; the required hardware is cheaper and more ubiquitous; required maintenance and programming skills are cheaper and more ubiquitous
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Greater reliability:
well designed, modern IT systems fail less frequently and are easier/cheaper to diagnose and fix when they go wrong
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Greater IT efficiency:
migrating the costliest and most maintenance-hungry applications first frees up valuable mainframe-skilled resources to work on higher value tasks
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Greater flexibility:
where mainframes favor communication in batches only, the latest platforms make inter-application communication possible in real time, giving much more responsive business functionality; new platforms can also be more easily changed and upgraded to respond to changing business needs
We have a wide range of modernization experience which allows us to provide services tailored exactly to a client's needs.
Future Vision
- Defining future technology vision
- Defining target TCO
- Improved MIPS cost per transaction
- Setting achievable ROI targets
Baselining
- System inventory
- Application inventory
- Code analysis
- Retro-documentation
- Analyzing current TCO
- Financial data collection & analysis
Strategies
- Defining solution architecture
- Creating implementation roadmap
Implementation
- Program definition and management
- Application conversion factory
- Optimized mixed-shore delivery
Techniques
- Re-hosting
- Re-platforming
- Modernization with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Re-write
- Re-engineer
- Legacy architecture simplification