Mainframe Modernization

MindTree knows that for organizations running on mainframes, maintaining and enhancing these applications is still a struggle; declining budgets and dwindling resources being only some of the concerns. We also understand the difficulties with vendor support and high cost-of-ownership.

In view of these and other challenges, MindTree brings to table custom built modernization flavours for different program solutions. Our Enterprise Modernization Service offers well optimized, cost effective & seamless approaches to help leverage your Mainframe assets (application / database / platforms) onto the modern web-world of today.

Typically, modernization of mainframe applications could mean any of the following:

• Re-write: Building new architecture, based on SOA on J2EE/.Net environments

• Re-engineer: Partial migration to Windows/Unix/Linux  or Package implementation

• Re-host: Retain source application as-is but port it to a new destination platform to leverage legacy assets

• Re-façade: Web-enable applications using middle wares E.g. Websphere MQ, IMS Connect, DB2 Connect etc

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• Hybrid: A Mix of the above stated traditional flavours custom built for IT needs

However, modernization by itself is a subjective term. At MindTree, it conjures up not only the above mentioned traditional flavours of Re-facade, Re-host Rewrite, Re-engineer & Hybrid, but also that of Environment Consolidation (Database, Platform or language migrations) for sunset technologies. Each of these approaches would fit the unique IT needs of our customer’s IT organization.

The hallmark of our modernization transformations is our consulting driven reengineering approach from a well researched Cost/Risk Analysis model (including the latest state of art in SOA) to a successful implementation support.  Beginning with a quantified portfolio analysis, we arrive at the strategy best suited for your requirements and then sensibly modify / adapt your Mainframe systems. Further, our Tools & Methodology frameworks are available for majority of the migrations planned in the market. We provide in-house migration tools to improve project productivity aspects and are well equipped through partnerships with IBM and CLERITY to execute projects in a variety of third party middleware environments.

MindTree is also a member of Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA), giving us access to various best practices. This advantage can be transferred to your modernization initiatives.