Enterprise modernization

IBM® enterprise modernization solutions help you cost effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies, reducing maintenance burden and freeing up more resources to develop new business requirements and capabilities.

An incremental and continuous modernization approach provides the roadmap to achieve greater value and performance from your IT investments in today’s challenging economic climate.

Learn how IBM Rational® enterprise modernization solutions can help you:

• Achieve rapid and cost-effective execution of strategies to reuse proven business applications in more flexible architectures, supporting the latest middleware and server innovation

• Drive greater business agility and IT productivity by leveraging existing domain knowledge and new talent

• Improve collaboration, efficiency, and governance across global software teams with a common team infrastructure, reducing project costs and risks

IBM enterprise modernization solutions are supported by an experienced worldwide staff of professional services consultants. We can implement solutions and support your staff throughout the entire application modernization process from discovery, analysis, modeling, and design to assembly, test, deployment, and management for IBM System z®, IBM i, and distributed platforms. IBM can help you:

• Unlock core business application components by reusing proven, time-tested applications that can 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.