Chicago, IL – September 14, 2009 – Clerity, a full-service provider of mainframe migration and modernization solutions, today introduced the Clerity Migration and Modernization Assessment Process (MMAP) for Adabas Natural Environments. This new service helps companies analyze migration options for Software AG environments to fully understand the total business impact and implementation requirements involved in moving to modern platforms and application architectures.
Adabas, Software AG's database server, has been used on mainframes since 1970 for large applications, and has historically been implemented in conjunction with Natural, Software AG's programming language. Transitioning from these long-established environments can be complex; many migration vendors promote only a single path forward that may or may not be the right fit for a particular organization.
Clerity's new MMAP service is a unique platform-neutral approach that helps companies consider all potential business and technology factors influencing a mainframe migration project and reach a business-savvy decision.
“Organizations with Adabas Natural investments may be struggling with whether to retain existing core investments or move to new frameworks such as Java or .NET,” said Jeff Hacker, vice president in charge of Clerity's Adabas Natural Modernization Practice. “The Clerity MMAP takes a large degree of risk out of the decision by fully analyzing the business and technical implications of potential migration and modernization scenarios.”
With help from Clerity, a leading global forest products company recently completed thorough planning and analysis of relevant application, data, and integration components before rehosting its Adabas Natural system from the mainframe to a HP-UX Integrity server environment. The company was looking for a cost-effective alternative that would preserve the business logic in a key Adabas Natural mainframe application that analyzes millions of routing options for lumber shipments.
Atos Origin, an international IT services company with 55,000 employees in 40 countries, went through a similar evaluation. After assessing several alternatives, Atos Origin Spain decided that migrating workloads to open systems would best fit its objectives. The company then used UniKix rehosting technology from Clerity on a detailed migration project in which several major financial services applications were moved to Sun servers running the Solaris Operating System. This migration reduced annual operating costs by 50 percent and freed up significant processing capacity for future growth.
The Clerity MMAP for Adabas Natural Environments joins Clerity's growing portfolio of migration and modernization services which include comprehensive IT assessments, application database and data migration, legacy modernization, SOA enablement, infrastructure design, and managed services.
With over 16 years of experience and more than 1300 sites in production, Clerity has helped hundreds of organizations migrate and modernize mainframe systems. Benefits derived from mainframe migration typically include significant cost reduction, enhanced productivity, simplified and consolidated IT environments, and access to a larger pool of skilled technical resources on open systems.
Clerity will host a Webinar on the Clerity MMAP Project for Adabas Natural Environments. Visit
http://www.clerity.com/adabas_natural for additional information.
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