Enterprise modernisation

Today your company is facing demands for new products and services, including global support for outsourced operations, integration with business partner and customer applications. Competitive factors are often driving new requirements. Frequently the IT organisations ability to rapidly respond to the business is severely limited by the architecture and years of evolution of existing systems. An incremental modernisation approach leading to service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the path to provide the flexibility required to meet your business needs.

To adopt an effective modernisation approach you must first overcome the following challenges in your IT organisation:

The IBM Enterprise Modernisation solutions help organisations cost-effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies—reducing maintenance burden and freeing up more of your resources to focus on developing new business requirements and capabilities.

IBM Enterprise Modernisation solutions are supported by an experienced worldwide staff of professional services consultants to help implement solutions and support your staff throughout the entire application modernisation process—from discovery, analysis, modeling and design to assembly, test, deployment and management for System z, System i and distributed platforms. IBM brings proven methods, techniques, tools and skills, and a collaborative approach to support you through the whole process. IBM can help you:

• Unlock core business application components by reusing proven, time-tested applications that can significantly lower risk, reduce costs and speed time to market.
• Lower your support costs by reducing duplicate application components and information.
• Simplify your technology profile by reducing integration complexity and resolving maintenance hotspots to establish a more agile application portfolio.
• Extend flexible reuse and connectivity of core application assets and information across your enterprise with our extensive experience leveraging the value of SOA.
• Reduce skill silos and islands of development.

• Webcast :
  IBM Rational Developer for System i
  
  
• Podcasts:
  Announcing IBM Rational solutions for i5/OS development
  (George Farr, Rational Product Manager for System i)
  
  Building next generation i5/OS applications
  (Stefano Sergi, Rational Product Manager for RBD & EGL)
  
  Accelerating Web and SOA development for System i
  (Bob Cancilla, Rational / System i Evangelist)