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This whitepaper investigates the challenges and benefits of transforming mainframe monolithic applications to cloud native microservices. .

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This whitepaper investigates the drivers of digital transformation, the challenges businesses face in transition, and the integral role legacy modernization plays in digital business success.

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This whitepaper discusses the intersection between legacy systems and unique advantages offered by cloud computing environments when addressing modernization.

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Earlier this year, Andy Nelson and Roger Camrass, a senior board advisor and visiting professor at the University of Surrey, England interviewed over 40 senior executives in leading financial, industrial, government, and IT services organizations to test a hypothesis: Do core legacy systems inhibit business’ ability to meet changing customer demands in the digital age? They wrote this excellent whitepaper setting out their key findings.

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This whitepaper outlines how firms are empowered to take a phased approach to modernization using Modern Systems’ tools to replatform and later migrate to COBOL or C#, removing the common risks many executives and application developers cite as reasons to stay with their current technology. It also describes how these tools enable organizations to break the ties that bind them to expensive fees.

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Recently, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an eye-opening report which found that roughly 75% of the government’s $80 billion IT budget goes to keep aging technology running, and the increasing cost is shortchanging modernization and causing a lot of headaches. This whitepaper explains why automated COBOL conversion is the fastest, most cost-effective, and safest way to alleviate reliance on legacy infrastructure, databases, and the application code that supports them.

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This whitepaper explains why a detailed assessment and understanding of legacy applications and databases is essential for risk mitigation, environmental understanding, and proper strategic technological planning and decision-making.
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This whitepaper incorporates industry analysis, direct customer feedback, and over 30 years of project experience to help you understand the mainframe modernization ecosystem and how replatforming Natural applications with Modern Systems is the fastest, least costly, and lowest risk option for extricating your organization from reliance on the mainframe and Software AG.
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91% of CIOs say performance expectations of the mainframe have increased now that customer-facing applications are using it. How can you reduce MIPS without disrupting the experience for the business and end users? This whitepaper breaks down the current MIPS usage landscape and options for MIPS reduction that make sense.
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Agile development philosophies such as DevOps, rapid expansion of expectations around mobile-friendly business practices, and world-class cloud infrastructure are placing pressure on CIOs and Enterprise Architects to modernize legacy systems to the changing landscape or risk losing competitive edge and market share.
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Replatforming Natural applications is a good way to move to distributed platforms, eliminate Software AG licensing charges, and retain Natural code syntax.
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CA GEN applications are usually of considerable size and accumulate complex business logic. A lack of skilled resources, limited integration and high costs create challenges around maintaining CA GEN. This whitepaper covers the current state of CA GEN in the enterprise and the most efficient, low-risk way to modernize.
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This is a technical deep-dive into our COBOL Automated Conversion technology. Learn how our solution empowers companies to keep the benefits of their legacy business logic while guaranteeing a fully maintainable Java or C# end state, compatible with the database and hardware of their choice. A great way to prepare and evaluate your COBOL migration roadmap.
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A broad view of organizational data is vital for management reporting, business intelligence, analytics and decision support. This whitepaper outlines common challenges in handling data locked up in legacy systems, the options for solving them and a detailed breakdown of Modern Systems' solution using an IDMS database as an example.
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Despite running mission critical applications and transactions on Software AG platforms, specific factors are driving companies away from Natural/Adabas.

This document incorporates industry analysis, direct customer feedback and 30 years of project experience to help you understand, build and execute on a business case for modernizing Software AG Natural/Adabas environments.
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Despite their size, Fortune 1000 companies know it takes a flexible, nimble organization to compete in today’s business landscape. This paper profiles their drivers to modernize, little known choices to common solutions, and profiles three global businesses who leveraged these creative solutions for success.
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How Modern Systems can help customers leverage "Blended ERP" for easier customization, reduced cost, and reduced risk.
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Discover how archiving legacy data can offer a refreshing alternative for lowering the cost of an ERP system.
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After a false start, a EU Government Agency chose to modernize their aging mainframe system to Microsoft Azure. Their decision was based on several mission-critical needs - as well as national security requirements.
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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water replaced their mainframe-based Customer Accounting System applications with a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution running on Windows. However, regulatory requirements mandated that at least seven years of customer billing data was to be archived and accessible at all times, a request which the COTS solution was unable to accommodate. As a result, three IDMSX databases containing all seven years of required historical billing data were left in place on the mainframe to meet the requirement, to be accessed as needed. Learn how Modern Systems came in, converted the IDMSX databases to a single SQL Server database, migrated the applications used to access the data to Windows, and helped Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water shut their costly big iron down for good, in less than four months.
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Take a tour of the assessment, conversion, and replatforming of a massive business-critical application suite with astonishing results.
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Find out how the US DOE eliminated ADABAS and Mainframe processing within five months, replatformed Natural, and implemented a relational database for future flexibility.
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The ultimate goal of this Natural/ADABAS to Java/SQL Server modernization project was to help over 200,000 police officers receive savings, investments and insurance services quicker.
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With help from Modern Systems, UCSB converted its code and data from its suite of Software AG ADABAS/Natural applications on an IBM mainframe to a platform based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Find out how.
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Progressive needed to accommodate an increasing number of policyholders and meet the business needs for expanded status, form, and address fields in their databases and related applications. This would involve complex security requirements, more than 30 database columns and 14 million lines of code.
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This COBOL/IDMS modernization project with Desjardins General Insurance Group currently stands as the largest successful modernization project done in both North America and in the history of the insurance vertical.
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The Employment Development Department (EDD) of California manages the unemployment and disability insurance benefit programs for over 18 million residents. EDD needed to migrate to a modern platform that could be adjusted to meet Federal mandates, grow with the future needs of the State, and be supported by available employees. Modern Systems assisted in replatforming EDD to a DB2 CICS COBOL environment that met the State of California’s requirements.
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The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) handles the registration of property transactions, the issue of new title documents for all properties in Singapore. The Singapore Titles Automated Registry System (STARS) captures this information, applies current policy rules and ensures accurate data for the Land Register, which is guaranteed by law. If this information is inaccurate, or if the updated policy information is not applied, the government is open to legal and financial liability. Get the details on this Natural/ADABAS modernization project that minimized user impact while meeting some unique performance and integration requirements.
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AeroSoft Systems, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada since 1997, maintains a unique position in the aircraft maintenance management software industry. CEO Thanos Kaponeridis wanted to modernize their flagship software product in a way that would be transparent to their current installed base and enable operational and business goals behind the scenes. Here's what happened.
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Companies House is Britain’s government bureau with responsibility for recording and storing all information that the country’s 1.8 million limited companies must share with the public. For years, Companies House gathered this information in their customized IDMS application. They elected to move this system to a Unix platform running Oracle in order to curb costs, streamline development work on the application and web-enable their data. Enter Modern Systems' Mainframe DataShare.
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Our Natural/ADABAS Win Book is the definitive guide for companies seeking to transition out of these environments and into modern systems.
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Progressive required that their database conversion solution be 100% automated, while still guaranteeing functional equivalency and maintaining all existing business rules. After extensive research into their options, Progressive selected Modern Systems and its unique DB-Shuttle automated technology to perform the modernization.
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With almost 4,000 business critical programs running on the mainframe, developed using CA Telon, this Dutch insurance group was incurring major licensing costs every year just to keep the business running. They sought a way to keep the existing programs but reduce the cost of maintaining them by use of an alternative, modern, application development environment. They chose Casegen.
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When one of Sweden’s largest insurance companies realized they had an over dependence on increasingly scarce CA Telon developers, they knew they had to find a solution to move them away from the Telon environment.
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When AIB decided to eliminate the license charges incurred for an old CA Telon system, they looked for a vendor with good replacement development technology and enough experience to seamlessly manage the changeover.
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The goal of this research paper by InfoTech is to help companies understand what’s changed in the field of modernization, how legacy systems can now be modernized relatively affordably and in surprisingly short time frames. This document offers a detailed evaluation and ranking of legacy modernization vendors and products to help determine which vendors are most appropriate for particular use cases and scenarios.
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Business case, risk analysis and cost analysis for a Standish Group customer planning a COBOL conversion for an IBM z10 mainframe system running its order processing application. The application consists of two million lines of COBOL/CICS code. The company has found it too expensive and difficult to modify and maintain the application. They planned to upgrade the application and reduce total cost of ownership by running it on commodity hardware and software- and this is the overall analysis of that effort. VERY useful for companies in the early stages of planning a COBOL conversion.
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AeroSoft CEO Thanos Kaponeridis detailed his experience with Modern Systems (then known as BluePhoenix) with an audience at Gartner's CIO Symposium. Great for those looking for a detailed, real-world story about modernizing business-critical applications.
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