IBM Migration Overview
Together with key partners, Micro Focus enables our customers to dramatically lower hardware and software costs by re-hosting IBM mainframe COBOL/CICS applications to modern, open and extensible platforms like Windows, UNIX and Linux.
Re-hosting results in applications that are lower cost, more open, easier to maintain, faster to adapt, fully extensible to the Internet, SQL, XML and Web services, and hence can be fully exploited through continued re-use.
IBM and Micro Focus
IBM mainframes have historically been the natural choice to run mission critical business applications.
However, many organizations are reviewing the business applications running on their IBM mainframe systems with a view to migrating some or all to more contemporary platforms.
This strategy is being driven by the need to reduce costs, support new business requirements, mitigate risk, consolidate IT systems or to enable them to be more agile in supporting the business going forward.
A common contributing factor, regardless of the initial driver, is the fact that small and mid-size mainframes have very high operating costs per unit of processing.
The availability of Micro Focus Enterprise Server™ to support mainframe CICS and COBOL applications means that it is now financially advantageous to migrate some or all of these business functions to lower-cost environments. Once relocated, the same business functions can be delivered at a dramatically better price/performance ratio.
Benefits
- Reduce overall annual hardware and software expenditure.
- Enter a new market or integrate self-service capabilities by exploiting the Internet.
- Minimize disruption to business continuity.
- Implement a consolidation initiative around a single target platform (e.g. Windows and UNIX).
- Deliver systems that can be adapted rapidly to exploit new opportunities.
