Application modernization

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Extending the value of legacy applications

Inflexible, aging, and poorly integrated IT systems can hinder your ability to quickly innovate and deliver new products and services to your customers. Today’s users have grown accustomed to the ease of use of modern Web-based applications. However, many organizations still depend on traditional text-oriented, host based applications which can be inefficient, difficult to use, and hard to change. Organizations are looking for efficient, secure and high performance access to this information from new and existing applications to improve customer satisfaction and drive new business growth.

IBM application modernization offers solutions to help you revitalize, modernize, and extend these applications to deliver new differentiated value and realize greater return on technology investments and avoid costly rewrites.

Reduce IT costs and improve alignment with your customer needs
Minimize project risk and achieve quick return on investment (ROI)
Deliver new products and services faster with fewer resources

Featured application modernization products

Rational Asset Analyzer
Comprehensive mainframe application discovery and analysis tool designed for business analysts and developers.
Rational Host Access Transformation Services
Quickly modernize existing 3270 or 5250 text-based "green screen" applications without incurring the risk of modifying these feature-rich, reliable applications.
Rational Developer for System z and zEnterprise System
Accelerate the development of CICS, IMS, DB2, and WAS applications while helping make multi-platform application development faster, more efficient, and less expensive.

Rational Developer for Power Systems
Integrated development and debug tools for AIX IBM i, and Linux, covering C/C++ and COBOL application development.
Rational Migration Extension
Migrate older applications to EGL a modern programming environment that facilitates deployment of applications and services on to open platforms.