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Are you struggling to drive innovation and deliver more services on a flat or reduced IT budget? Are the costs of maintaining your existing applications preventing you from meeting new requirements?
As a cornerstone of Smarter Computing (US), the IBM enterprise modernization approach is one of continuous improvement that enables you to revitalize applications, leverage existing and new skills, unify teams and optimize your infrastructure -- all with the goal of helping you make breakthroughs in IT productivity, efficiency and innovation.
Enterprise modernization solutions can help you cost effectively and incrementally evolve your core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies for Smarter Computing. As a result you can leverage your existing investments, reduce maintenance costs and efforts and free-up resources to deliver new business requirements and create new, innovative capabilities that help you compete.
IBM enterprise modernization solutions provide you with the capability to:
- Increase flexibility and preserve investments by transforming existing IT assets
- Boost productivity with modern, multiplatform integrated development environments that provide a common developer desktop
- Enhance organizational agility by leveraging a collaborative lifecycle management infrastructure
- Improve application performance and scalability by leveraging the latest compilation technologies
- Support multiple platforms including System z®, zEnterprise™, Power Systems™, System x® and distributed environments
Real results
Trustmark National Bank (US) needed to modernize its mainframe applications and give clients the Internet banking they expected -- but without rewriting program code. Enterprise Modernization capabilities from IBM helped Trustmark leverage Leveraging its original investment in reliable, business-tested applications, the company avoided the expense, time and risk of recoding while helping staff work faster and smarter.
At Cothern Computer Systems (US), developers can use a single familiar development environment for work on multiple servers and multiple languages. A familiar Eclipse interface improved productivity by 20 percent in just a week. Code is checked as it’s written using compile error feedback functionality, so code errors are seen immediately.
Explore IBM enterprise modernization solutions in detail
Application modernization
Modernization approaches and techniques to transform business critical systems into flexible applications and services.
Application portfolio management
Align investments with business objectives, to maximize business value, while maintaining focus on stakeholder needs.
Multiplatform development
Integrated development and test environment to build and deploy multi-platform applications for System z, zEnterprise and Power Systems.
Application lifecycle management
Coordinate the flow of people, processes and information across an iterative cycle of software delivery activities.
Compilers
Boost performance, productivity and cost savings with IBM’s latest compilers for System z and Power Systems.
Featured enterprise modernization solutions
IBM integrated solution for system z development (US)
A modern solution for System z and multiplatform development, team collaboration, unit test, analysis, and software change and configuration management
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Application portfolio management
- Rational Focal Point
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Enterprise and business architecture
- Rational Asset Manager family - Overview
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- Rational Developer for System z
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- Rational Developer for System z family - Overview
Featured enterprise modernization products
Rational Asset Analyzer family
An application discovery and analysis tool for improving your understanding and insight into relationships within and among mainframe and composite applications.
Rational Developer for System z family
The premier IDE for creating platform independent services and for building traditional and composite applications, including IBM CICS®, IMS™, COBOL, PL/I, Java, EGL, Web, Web 2.0, and XML-based applications.
Rational Developer for Power Systems Software
A comprehensive development environment for creating and maintaining applications on IBM AIX® and IBM i, including C/C++ and COBOL applications on AIX and RPG, COBOL, CL, and DDS applications on IBM i.
Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS)
Quickly transform your 3270 and 5250 green screen applications to intuitive Web, portlet, rich client or mobile device user interfaces, and extend 3270, 5250, and VT green screens as standard Web services.
Rational Team Concert
A unified and collaborative multiplatform team infrastructure including support for System z, IBM Power Systems™ and distributed systems to help streamline the entire application development and deployment life cycle across all operating environments.
IBM PureSystems (US)
IBM PureSystems, the world's first family of expert integrated systems, seamlessly integrates each phase of the IT/workload lifecycle.
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Podcast
Accelerate System z software delivery with IBM’s Integrated Solution for System z Development
Case study
Atos Origin Optimizes Workloads on IBM System z using EGL realize a 55 percent reduction in operating costs.
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Modernize the enterprise one step at a time
Saleem Padani, Enterprise Modernization Marketing Manager
The thought of modernizing enterprise systems can be overwhelming. Smarter software from IBM lets you tackle the problem in ways that make sense for your business. Establish an IT environment that is integrated, optimized and collaborative. Find the four key areas to free up resources and improve how IT and your business operate.
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Enterprise modernization resources
Solution brief (US) (PDF, 886KB)
IBM enterprise modernization: The cornerstone of Smarter Computing
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A comprehensive view of Enterprise Modernization solutions for System z
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Learn how to leverage existing technology to gain a competitive advantage
Enterprise Modernization Sandbox
Test-drive Rational solutions for free in our hosted environment, with the Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z and Power System
Mainframe resource e-kit
Resources to build you knowledge of application development and deployment on IBM System z
Rational cafés
Bringing System z and Power Systems developer communities together
Increase organizational agility
Learn how the IBM collaborative application lifecycle management solution can help you take back control of your projects and teams by streamlining end-to-end multiplatform software development and delivery across System z, Power Systems and distributed platforms.