Find Partners for Your Modernization Project
Mainframe modernization projects require scalable and reliable hardware, specialized software, and large project expertise. Microsoft works with vendors in these categories to deliver a holistic approach to modernization.
Though different legacy environments and modernization strategies require different sets of tools, most projects need to address existing COBOL, CICS, and JCL applications. Software tools and run-time environments are available from various ISV for those companies wishing to continue support of these applications on the Windows and Microsoft .NET platform.
The Alchemy software solutions are designed to revitalize as you migrate. The Neo suite of products (NeoKicks, NeoBatch, and NeoSort) along with NetCOBOL automate the migration of CICS COBOL, batch COBOL, and JCL to the Microsoft .NET Framework, with minimum change to the COBOL and JCL code, while fully enabling the applications for the new environment. For example, CICS BMS screens are transformed to ASP.NET Web pages.
Anubex is an important player in the mainframe modernization market and has one of the largest sets of tools available to automate the transformation and modernization of mission-critical applications. Anubex specializes in IBM zSeries and Siemens BS2000/OSD application porting and targets .NET and other modern platforms. With over 15 years' experience in building such tools for its customers, Anubex succeeds in generating maintainable, compact, and functionally auditable software from applications with even many millions of lines of code.
Anubex offers a comprehensive solution to applications created with proprietary 4GLs and development tools: database modernization including the automated migration from prerelational databases to RDBMSs; automated translation of COBOL, Natural, ADS, JCL, and other languages; and screen modernization through the conversion to nonproprietary mainframe alternatives or the latest in graphical .NET user interfaces.
Asysco is the leading migration technology provider for the Unisys mainframe environment. We help our customers protect and enhance their investments in mission-critical enterprise applications. The Asysco Migration Technology (AMT) provides our customers with all the tools they need to migrate their legacy applications to an open systems environment. Our technology solutions, AMT-LION and AMT-VS (Visual Studio), allow companies to choose their path away from the mainframe. Both technologies lower the costs of maintaining existing enterprise applications and speed up the development and the time to market of new applications. At the same time, our customers are able to continue to enjoy the unparalleled robustness, security and availability of the traditional mainframe environment in an open environment.
ATERAS has supported global enterprises for 25 years offering a complete and automated method for organizations to protect legacy assets, reduce maintenance costs, and enable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) of business-critical applications. The patent pending DB-Shuttle™ automation technology performs conversions of legacy databases such as IDMS, VSAM, Adabas, and IMS, including the mainframe databases and applications to a Microsoft .NET environment. This includes converting older applications to new languages such as Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and C# .NET as well as converting the non-relational databases to Microsoft SQL Server.
BluePhoenix is a leading global provider of modernization solutions for legacy information systems. Its unique suite of automated tools and services helps customers grow revenue, reduce costs, shorten time to market, and extend the return on investment (ROI) of their existing legacy systems. BluePhoenix offerings help firms effectively plan and carry out strategic projects that enable business growth such as database, application, and platform migrations; SOA enablement; field transformations; system standardizations; application development; and legacy application maintenance.
COSS Solutions delivers software facilitating mainframe application migration to the Microsoft .NET environment. The solutions provided by COSS enable mainframe programmers to become productive in .NET with a learning curve of less than one week. COSS is a leading technology provider for COBOL to Microsoft .NET migration projects in the Benelux. COSS also provides productivity-increasing Visual Studio add-ons for Fujitsu NetCOBOL and Micro Focus Net Express.
Enterprise Informatics Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise information management solutions that vastly improves the integrity, visibility, and access to all relevant information at the time it is needed—reducing the cost of meeting compliance requirements, minimizing business risk, and optimizing process efficiency. As one of 400 Microsoft Gold Managed Partners, Enterprise Informatics has been an early adopter of the latest Microsoft technologies. The company's flagship product eB (enterprise bridge) is Certified for the Windows Vista logo and for Microsoft Windows Server 2008. eB is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and extends the document management capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to the enterprise.
Automate every aspect of legacy modernization—Recovery of Business Rules, Review and Optimization, Migration to Native C# and VB.Net code—all with one product. Use a phased approach to document, modernize, and migrate COBOL, Adabas/Natural, and Assembler applications, saving at least 50 percent in terms of time as compared to current practices. The approach involves no proprietary libraries or line-by-line translation.
HTWC is a top leading European rehosting, software conversion, and application management solutions company founded in 1987. Over the past 20 years, HTWC has developed a range of products and services designed to help industries and organizations reduce IT development and maintenance costs. HTWC's advanced technology innovates businesses and IT processes to provide better overall performances and functionalities. HTWC offers a strong rehosting-migration tool as well highly specialized services currently running in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific. Having a strong channel partner worldwide enables us to enter into different markets presenting our innovative technologies and deliver a complete tools set on the market.
HTWC provides a suite of tools that are very cost-effective. Solutions have been created for all types of organizations and business sectors, including telecommunications, government, banking, insurance, oil and gas, and manufacturing. Porting existing platforms to newer technologies allows our clients great annual budget saving on the company's IT business. HTWC is heavily reliant on high-performing IT to deliver services through careful planning and ongoing management in an environment that is forever changing, adapting and evolving.
HTWC technology and activities are:
 | System migrations |
| Rehosting |
| Language conversion |
| Technology changement |
| Custom developments |
| Software management analysis and assessment |
| APM (application portfolio management) |
For over 20 years of legacy consulting services, Idea Legacy has provided proven migration solutions that preserve mission critical application while extending their value. As one of the most decorated Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, with nine certifications, we have created tools such as:
| Migration tools that are integrated with Visual Studio and utilize the Microsoft .NET framework, utilizing our membership with the Microsoft Visual Studio Integration Partner (VSIP) program |
| Rules-based transformation engine that converts Unisys COBOL to Micro Focus COBOL and DMSII accesses to Microsoft SQL Server |
| A Unisys COMS environment running Windows called OpenMCS message control system, with features such as transaction-based routing, automatic load-based program initiation/shutdown, and Pre/Post processing items |
| XGEN language and generator that produces either Unisys COBOL or Micro Focus COBOL from a single XGEN source |
| Tools to convert ALGOL libraries to Windows-compatible languages |
| ClientView Builder tool that modernizes legacy applications by creating a web-based GUI using Visual Studio and Microsoft ASP.NET |
Idea has revolutionized the industry with our innovative tools and key partnerships. If you need an affordable migration tailored to your needs, choose Idea Legacy.
IRI is a leading provider of mainframe sort and data migration solutions. IRI's flagship CoSort product includes MVS and VSE JCL sort parm conversion tools and drop-in COBOL sort replacement verbs that rapidly upgrade Microsoft environments to superior sort performance and data transformation functionality. CoSort can also translate legacy data and file types into XML, LDIF, CSV, and others; produce Change Data Capture and batch reports; and protect data at risk with field-level encryption and masking. Other IRI utilities include FACT for Oracle for high-speed bulk Oracle unloads and RowGen for high-volume, referentially-correct, "safe" SQL Server test data generation.
A Global Partnership focused on Mainframe Application Modernization, extension to .NET and next-generation web enablement.
Focused on providing our customers with the highest levels of integration with .Net and the Windows Application Platform for mainframe application development, testing and deployment solutions. This joint collaboration enables us, together, to more effectively deliver an alternative platform strategy for enterprises to maximize the value of their enterprise COBOL applications and legacy systems, as well as accelerate sales and development initiatives, providing customers greater choice and agility for mainframe applications.
Bringing together three decades of Micro Focus mainframe expertise with Microsoft's Application Platform vision and enterprise capabilities to deliver next generation enterprise ready solutions for mainframe applications. Our solutions enable companies to modernize, extend and exploit their IT enterprise asset portfolio, enabling our customers to respond rapidly to market demands and embrace modern architectures like SOA and Cloud computing. We provide a pragmatic, high return, low risk alternative to rewrite or replacement strategies. Micro Focus technologies provide a way forward that is trusted worldwide by the most demanding organizations.
Micro-Processor Services offers an expansive array of innovative, customizable enterprise software modernization tools, which are fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio, for in-house migration of legacy mainframe and embedded applications from COBOL, PL/I, Pascal, Delphi, and Assembly to C, C++, C#, JAVA, J#, and XML. These software solutions enable users to in-source the re-engineering, re-use, and conversion of valuable existing software to new platforms, architectures, and environments such as Microsoft Windows, Windows CE, and Microsoft .NET.
Muller Media Conversions has provided legacy data conversion software and training to government agencies, banks, public utilities, and others since 1978. We combine our knowledge of myriad media and data formats with our proprietary software in order to provide in-house solutions around the world. Our software has been installed in the U.S., England, Hungary, Brunei, and Bangladesh, to name a few places. The result: older mainframe and minicomputer tapes and file formats are transformed from liability to opportunity. Let us help you to preserve and utilize even the most arcane of your company's digital heritage.
Pragma Systems, Inc., is a leading provider of enterprise-class remote access and security software for Microsoft Windows and Windows Mobile platforms. Pragma is an industry leader in Secure Shell and Telnet technology and offers the most popular SSH and TelnetServer for Windows. The company's end-to-end solutions of servers and clients on the desktop and mobile devices provide highly secure access to corporate supply chain, CRM, distribution, and warehouse applications over wireless, Bluetooth, LAN, WAN, and mobile networks.
System integrators with dedicated modernization practices can provide the skills, expertise, and staffing necessary to plan and execute on a modernization practice. The integrators often work with Microsoft consultants to build the best solution for the customer.
Many organizations have accumulated technology that impedes business productivity and flexibility. According to Accenture research, more than half of all business applications are between 5 and 20 years old. Accenture can help clients obtain more value out of existing investments by re-platforming, decommissioning, remediating, and reverse engineering existing or legacy technologies and applications. The result is increased stability and flexibility, decreased cost, and an extended life of current IT assets.
Anubex provides solutions for the modernization of large and complex legacy applications for business and government organizations alike. Anubex exclusively applies a proven, iterative process and specialized software to optimally re-use the value in existing applications while automatically transforming them to use the most leading-edge technologies. A core part of Anubex's offering is its ability to tailor the standard transformation behavior of the tools to satisfy the coding guidelines and environment parameters of each individual customer.
A recent addition to the core Anubex modernization services is a framework for automating the testing of interactive (online) applications. Using the Anubex automated testing framework, companies have been able to reduce the amount of time users spend testing and accepting the converted software by as much as 90%.
Several of Anubex's customers are ranked among the Fortune Global 500. Anubex operates internationally and often collaborates with systems integrators to manage modernization projects and minimize risk.
Asysco is the leading migration technology and service provider for the Unisys mainframe environment. We help our customers protect and enhance their investments in mission-critical enterprise applications. Our technology solutions, AMT-LION and AMT-VS (Visual Studio), allow companies to choose their path away from the mainframe. Before, during, and after a migration project, Asysco provides services to their customers, including, but not limited to, migration project management, software installations and upgrades, new development projects assistance, outsourcing resources, and training.
BluePhoenix is a leading global provider of modernization solutions for legacy information systems. Its unique suite of automated tools and services helps customers grow revenue, reduce costs, shorten time to market, and extend the return on investment (ROI) of their existing legacy systems. BluePhoenix offerings help firms effectively plan and carry out strategic projects that enable business growth such as database, application, and platform migrations; SOA enablement; field transformations; system standardizations; application development; and legacy application maintenance.
Cognizant, a leading IT offshore services provider, has a proven methodology for legacy modernization that combines tools, frameworks and processes with vertical domain depth. Learn more about how Cognizant helped Schwan realize benefits from a large migration to the .NET Framework.
EDS Applications Modernization Services quickly and efficiently moves legacy applications to modern platforms and optimized architectures such as Microsoft Windows Server and the .NET framework while preserving the value in the applications. With a scalable and flexible platform for future growth, your organization is better able to respond quickly to market changes, reduce total cost of ownership, and deliver enhanced business services based on modern technology.
Fujitsu Consulting is ready to maximize your business potential, because there's more to migration than reducing platform costs. Fujitsu's legacy to .NET practice combines off-shore resources to save you money with seasoned leaders to ensure direction and success. There are several options including the QuickStart assessment and proof of concept that give you a clear target and transition plan and full-project pricing you can't ignore.
HP is helping organizations bring their IT architectures and application environments to a new state—one that aligns with their desired future vision and is able to:
| Rebalance IT investment to increase allocation for innovation as funding for maintenance decreases |
| Improve alignment between IT and business interests |
| Achieve application flexibility and agility |
| Work towards a Service-Oriented Architecture and shared IT infrastructure |
HTWC offers services to help small, medium, and large industries and organizations reduce IT development and maintenance costs. HTWC's advanced technology innovates businesses and IT processes to provide better overall performances and functionalities.
With one of the most complete procedures for delivering Software Management Analysis and Assessment and automatic Application Portfolio Management, HTWC helps protect business and critical applications. HTWC is focused on reducing maintenance costs and guiding companies through various modernization strategies. ICON technology, which has been used over past 10 years on global projects, analyzes and gathers information about legacy applications through an automatic process. With an exhaustive set of GUI controls, users can navigate, research, and analyze their software. ICON supports different Mainframe/legacy environments and various source environments.
With more than 20 years of specialized migration experience and a powerful set of automated tools, Idea Integration is able to offer a reliable, low-cost solution that affords many benefits. Idea Integration provides consulting services in several key areas such as migration services, application development and offloading, application portfolio management, and documentation services. In addition, Idea Integration is Microsoft Gold Certified in nine competencies and can provide complementary solutions in various disciplines such as infrastructure, education and training, staff augmentation, Microsoft .NET application knowledge, and information security. With this diversity of skills and services, Idea Integration can provide an all encompassing modernization solutions.
Businesses the world over use multiple technologies as their business grows and diversifies. IT organizations, therefore, house—and are often saddled with—a large array of technology platforms and applications. According to industry estimates, over 70 percent of the world's data still reside on legacy systems. Infosys solutions offer enhanced flexibility to your enterprise by modernizing and migrating your legacy systems to help you increase business responsiveness, lower costs and mitigate risks.
Infosys' Legacy Modernization solution provides enhanced flexibility by modernizing and migrating legacy systems, architectures, and processes. It brings down the cost of running business and fuels growth.
A Global Partnership focused on Mainframe Application Modernization, extension to .NET and next-generation web enablement.
Focused on providing our customers with the highest levels of integration with .Net and the Windows Application Platform for mainframe application development, testing and deployment solutions. This joint collaboration enables us, together, to more effectively deliver an alternative platform strategy for enterprises to maximize the value of their enterprise COBOL applications and legacy systems, as well as accelerate sales and development initiatives, providing customers greater choice and agility for mainframe applications.
Bringing together three decades of Micro Focus mainframe expertise with Microsoft's Application Platform vision and enterprise capabilities to deliver next generation enterprise ready solutions for mainframe applications. Our solutions enable companies to modernize, extend and exploit their IT enterprise asset portfolio, enabling our customers to respond rapidly to market demands and embrace modern architectures like SOA and Cloud computing. We provide a pragmatic, high return, low risk alternative to rewrite or replacement strategies. Micro Focus technologies provide a way forward that is trusted worldwide by the most demanding organizations.
Micro-Processor Services is an established provider of legacy software translation and validation services that uses its vast library of proprietary tools to migrate legacy mainframe and embedded applications from COBOL, PL/I, Pascal, Delphi, and Assembly to C, C++, C#, JAVA, J#, and XML. Our expertise in compiler/translator technology enables us to quickly and cost-effectively customize the tools to the user's requirements. This allows our clients to rapidly respond to changing market conditions by re-engineering and converting their existing software investments to new platforms, architectures, and environments such as Microsoft Windows, Windows CE, and Microsoft .NET.
Getting the best value out of legacy systems in the face of continuously changing business needs is the foremost challenge faced by companies today. Ever increasing maintenance costs, a shrinking skill-base, diminishing vendor support, and the advent of more progressive technologies that open up a plethora of business opportunities. Clients are increasingly interested in alternative options.
MindTree can provide you an end-to-end solution to leverage your legacy assets while minimizing cost and risk.
Muller Media Conversions has provided legacy data conversion and preservation services for government, industry, litigation projects, and academia since 1978. We combine our knowledge of myriad media and data formats with special equipment and proprietary software in order to provide both offsite and onsite services all around the world. The result: older mainframe and minicomputer tapes and file formats are transformed from liability to opportunity. Let us help you to preserve and utilize even the most arcane of your company's digital heritage.
Trinity Millennium Group specializes in legacy application modernization and has been helping organizations worldwide manage their legacy IT assets since 1995. Trinity's consultants average more than 20 years of experience with over 100 legacy programming languages and databases; we can provide those hard-to-find skills to augment your team. The patent-pending Trinity Modernization Process utilizes a proven combination of our custom-designed toolset with software engineering best practices to migrate your applications to modern technologies such as Microsoft .NET and SQL Server. Trinity's end-to-end services provide the quality you need for a positive ROI and long-term maintainability.
Unisys is a worldwide technology services and solutions company. We combine our business domain knowledge with a vast heritage of mainframe experience and comprehensive expertise in Microsoft solutions to help our clients achieve secure business operations. Unisys has extensive experience working with the world's most prominent mainframe clients to deliver modernized mainframe application solutions that benefit from the richness of Microsoft .NET solutions and provide accelerated business agility.
The majority of mainframe modernization projects are deployed on highly scalable and reliable systems from hardware vendors with expertise supporting mainframe-level requirements.
Whether you choose a scale-up or scale-out model, Fujitsu provides the range of high performance, high availability, excellent scalability servers you need as the target for your mainframe modernization projects. With decades of experience in the mainframe market, Fujitsu understands the hardware features required by mainframe users and has designed those features in to its latest models such as the PRIMEQUEST servers.
Your mainframe application needs can be safely met with us. From the high-end HP Integrity Superdome to the highly flexible HP BladeSystem Servers, HP has the server technology to make mission-critical virtualization a reality for enterprises of all sizes. Guide your most demanding workloads to a better return on IT. Windows-based HP Integrity servers with Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processors achieve breakthrough performance on both Transactional (TPC-C) and Data Warehouse (TPC-H) benchmarks. HP can help you move off mainframes and modernize the applications on your mainframe to a Windows server platform.
Formed in September 2005, the ItaniumŪ Solutions Alliance is a global community of hardware, operating system, and application vendors dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of ItaniumŪ-based solutions. The Itanium Solutions Alliance Founders share a long-term commitment to extend software optimization on Itanium-based platforms, expand application support for Itanium-based platforms and extend Itanium-based platform delivery to new users, applications, and industries. The Alliance also works to enable system providers opportunity to work together to advance the core capabilities of the Intel Itanium architecture.
Leveraging NEC's world-class supercomputer and mainframe heritage, NEC Express5800/1000 servers represent the third-generation of NEC's family of highly expandable mid-range and enterprise server platforms. NEC's Express5800/1000 enterprise servers offer a track record of leading TPC performance. Combined with Windows Server 2008, the NEC Express5800/1320 Enterprise Server has achieved record-breaking TPC-E OLTP performance and is the industry's first system certified to support Windows dynamic hardware partitioning capabilities. Integrated with the IntelŪ Itanium processors and scalable from 2 to 64 processor cores, NEC Express5800/1000 servers are the ideal platform for mainframe class SQL database performance, consolidation, and business applications.
As a global provider of mainframe class infrastructure, Unisys has introduced many of the hardware innovations that are considered standards today. Unisys delivers a broad portfolio of platforms which provide best-of-breed capabilities for agile, secure, scalable, and resilient solutions. Combined with our market defining innovations in pay-for-use business models and enterprise deployments of Microsoft technologies, Unisys delivers proven results that optimize business operations for modernizing legacy applications on older platforms.
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