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CLERITY MAINFRAME REHOSTING SOLUTIONS

Solution Overview

Background

With over 15,000 customers worldwide and 20 billion transactions processed per day, CICS supports the majority of business-critical applications, virtually all of these running on the mainframe. These enterprise applications retain valuable business models, often unique to the particular company. They are time-proven and high quality.

The IT business problem for applications lies in the expensive, inflexible platform in which they are shackled. Mainframe enterprise applications typically have the following profile: MVS or VSE operating system, COBOL or PL/1 programming language, SNA communication services, VSAM file access, 3270 'green screen' user presentation, and CICS middleware supporting the transactional development model linking technology infrastructure to the business assets of business rules, data, and people.

The mainframe platform continues to be the most expensive to operate. It has been inflexible to technological evolution, providing late access to technology innovations. And, major changes to one technology often require major changes to others affecting the existing application.

The future of IT continues to evolve into component architectures, development structures and techniques that ease the reuse of code. Java, a programming language designed for component architectures, is surfacing as the most well-accepted language since COBOL

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The Challenge

This presents the next IT challenge: how do you evolve to beneficial technologies such as Java and SOA without wasting resources or eliminating critical and unique business functions? Building new applications or reengineering them have similarly high and unacceptable failure rates: about 70% of these projects fail to meet their goals or fail completely. Package replacement approaches take 2+ years, typically, to fully implement and often are extremely expensive - at a minimum, they seldom allow you successfully to integrate unique business functions within these new systems. And, you must reengineer your business to conform to the package.

The Solution

Mainframe Rehosting solutions from Clerity preserve business logic and protect existing investments in legacy applications. Clerity can help companies improve their competitiveness by integrating legacy applications with new applications. What's more, with rehosting, Clerity is able to maintain the end user's experience on the front end of the application and yield cost savings of as much as 70%!

Clerity Mainframe Rehosting software provides the ability to move custom, home-grown applications off the mainframe. Existing applications are migrated largely unchanged with the help of UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE) software and UniKix Batch Processing Environment (UniKix BPE) software.

Next Steps

	Learn more about Clerity's Mainframe Rehosting solutions
	Download a Mainframe Rehosting technical whitepaper
	Complete the online Quick ROI Assessment calculator to project your cost savings
	Contact a Clerity Mainframe Rehosting specialist today to discuss your specific needs