Enterprise Legacy Modernization Summary

Overcome the Challenges Associated With Legacy Applications

Today’s organizations are facing a number of critical challenges when it comes to managing and supporting their legacy applications. Vital to the business and containing a wealth of knowledge, these applications can be increasingly costly to maintain. They lack business agility and add an extra degree of complexity to the IT portfolio.  Additionally, the accelerating retirement of an experienced mainframe workforce is creating a skills shortage.

The question facing IT executives is not whether to modernize, but what modernization strategy to employ.  Compuware is uniquely qualified to help create your strategy and assist in moving that strategy forward to leverage these important mainframe assets. Our approach is flexible, supporting either renovation or replacement strategies.

Compuware legacy modernization services can reduce support and operations costs by 25 to 50 percent and address other critical legacy application issues. Our framework is composed of three core services: Technical Blueprinting, Rationalization and Optimization. These services can be delivered across a mainframe portfolio, against a single application or as discrete services tailored to a client’s situation.

Our solution provides multiple benefits to customers, including:

• Deep and thorough understanding of the existing legacy application portfolio.
• A rationalized legacy application portfolio and modernization plan.
• Increased value, longevity and performance of existing legacy platforms.
• Modernization and extension of legacy systems to support business and  IT goals.
• Delivery of critical skills and an experienced and reliable mainframe workforce.

We bring expertise developed during our thirty-seven years of mainframe market leadership to solve IT challenges for world's leading organizations, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies.