Chicago, IL – November 8, 2010 – Clerity, a full-service provider of mainframe migration, modernization, and optimization solutions, announced that it is showcasing a solution for migrating and modernizing IBM® Information Management System (IMS™) workloads to cost-effective open systems during the Gartner AADI Summit in Los Angeles, November 15-17. Organizations can reduce annual operational cost by as much as 95 percent and improve IT agility by preserving existing IBM IMS application business logic and providing direct Structured Query Language (SQL) access to valuable IBM IMS data.
IBM IMS transaction and hierarchical database management mainframe-based systems run business-critical operations in more than 90 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies. Although a proven, high-volume platform for transaction and data processing, the high annual cost of IBM IMS software and related third-party software licenses, combined with the shrinking pool of available IBM IMS administration skills, has many organizations looking for alternatives.
UniKix technology from Clerity enables IBM IMS Transaction Manager applications and IBM IMS Database environments to be rapidly migrated and reused on flexible Linux, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and Linux on IBM® System z® platforms without the expense of re-engineering or risk of redevelopment with commercial off-the-shelf software.
The Ministry of Justice in Portugal, Instituto das Technologias de Informação na Justiça (ITIJ), had been paying approximately 1.45 million Euro per year to support two IBM IMS applications before migrating off the mainframe with Clerity technology.
"With the UniKix software solution from Clerity, we cut annual operating costs by 95%, providing new functionality to better serve our constituents," said Dr. Bruno Sá, president of ITIJ. "Now we have a consolidated, flexible foundation to quickly respond to market change and future integration requirements."
This new offering provides an evolutionary path for organizations without costly downtime and disruption. Developers can continue to program within familiar IBM IMS constructs or move to popular industry frameworks such as SQL post-migration. Recycling well-known procedures and skills on more cost-effective systems, or gradually introducing new paradigms enhances flexibility without impacting ongoing productivity or requiring significant retraining.
IBM IMS compatibility with UniKix is available immediately and is offered with Clerity's UniKix Mainframe Rehosting software suite, already deployed at over 1,300 production sites worldwide.
Experts will be on hand at Booth Z at the Gartner AADI Summit to showcase this solution.
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