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Today’s IT Conundrum creates significant implications for IT infrastructures – meeting exploding demand for service on a flat budget. Smarter Computing helps IT deliver breakthrough economics and accelerate innovation. Smarter Computing is an IT infrastructure that is designed for data, tuned to the task and managed in the cloud. Find out how IBM Systems and Enterprise Modernization solutions help drive greater performance and efficiency for superior economics.


Companies that can cut costs, reduce complexity and make effective use of existing investments may be better positioned for growth and increased profitability. IBM Rational Enterprise modernization solutions for System z can extend the value of your business applications, people, teams and infrastructure, to provide optimum return on your investments. Explore the following videos to gain an in-depth awareness of modernization challenges and how Rational’s Enterprise Modernization capabilities address them in concrete ways.


Are you still maintaining those green screen applications? Watch this video to learn how you can improve customer satisfaction, lower employee training costs, and minimize overall business impact, by modernizing your existing CICS or IMS applications to leverage modern Web, Rich client and mobile interfaces.


Is your application portfolio a draining your IT budget? Watch this short video to see how you can get a handle on your complex application portfolio and apply proven techniques to understand, optimize, consolidate and transform your portfolio and ensure your investments align to your business needs.


Are you spending way too much time trying to track down and change all those hard-coded business rules across your line-of-business applications? Check out this short video on how IBM business rule modernization solutions can make rule identification practical by helping companies identify and extract source statements that implement business rules.


Are you paying astronomical annual software license and maintenance fees to keep your legacy business applications from going out of support? Watch this video to learn how the IBM Rational Migration Extension family of solutions automates the conversion of applications written in Software AG Natural/Adabas, CA Gen, CA Ideal/Datacom, RPG and COBOL to an open, modern and modular software delivery platform.


Is your organization facing a growing skills gap, resulting from a shrinking pool of experienced mainframe developers? Did you know that modern mainframe development tools can bridge your mainframe skills gap? These tools can improve developer productivity by up to 40% while also reducing training costs. Developers without mainframe skills can build multiplatform applications in a matter of days. Check it out.


Are you struggling to balance the load of both application development and your production systems in your mainframe environment? Watch this video to learn how the latest development and unit test environment from IBM can empower your developers to build and test System z applications anywhere, anytime, without impacting operations. This solution can enable your team to free up capacity for additional workloads, while reducing line-of-business development costs by deferring hardware upgrades.


Are you struggling to keep your global software teams on track? Have you reached a tipping point in how your distributed and mainframe development teams build, manage and report their progress on their daily tasks? Watch this short video to learn how the IBM collaborative application lifecycle management solution can help you take back control of your projects and teams by streamlining end-to-end multiplatform software development and delivery across System z, Power Systems and distributed platforms.


Operating on a limited budget may mean wanting a quick, low-risk way to improve performance and scalability of existing IT infrastructure, all while keeping costs down. Watch this short video to learn how IBM’s latest compilation technology for languages like COBOL, PL/I, C and C++ can help you exploit the latest advancement in IBM middleware and platforms, measurably boost performance, and keep your overall costs to a minimum.


Can't keep up with the growing demand of your online transaction processing application? Is your batch window starting to interfere with your normal business hours? Watch this short video to see how IBM’s end-to-end batch modernization management capabilities deliver an agile, efficient and high performance middleware infrastructure that reincorporates savings of batch processing into today's OLTP environment.


Learn how you can get started on your Enterprise Modernization roadmap today. Watch this video to see how you can immediately try out these solutions for free in our virtual online environment - Enterprise Modernization Sandboxes for IBM System z and Power® Systems.


Hear from Hayden Lindsey and Scott Searle on why IBM's Innovate 2010 conference on June 6 - 10, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, is a must attend event for System z customers. At Innovate 2010, System z customers will have an opportunity to network with 4,000 software and systems peers, see exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team, learn about the future of Technology from IBM Fellow Grady Booch, hear from Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway Personal Transporter, on the power of Innovation, and much more. You will get glimpse into the future of Smarter Systems and software from IBM that forms the foundation for building a Smarter Planet. Attend the brand new track dedicated for System z customers, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions and a special reception for System z customers Tuesday evening in the Bluezoo lounge.


Hear from Hayden Lindsey and Scott Searle on why IBM's Innovate 2010 conference on June 6 - 10, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, is a must attend event for Power Systems customers. At Innovate 2010, Power Systems customers will have an opportunity to network with 4,000 software and systems peers, see exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team, learn about the future of Technology from IBM Fellow Grady Booch, hear from Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway Personal Transporter, on the power of Innovation, and much more. You will get glimpse into the future of Smarter Systems and software from IBM that forms the foundation for building a Smarter Planet. Attend the brand new track dedicated for Power Systems customers, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions and a special reception for Power Systems customers Monday evening in the Bluezoo lounge.


Find out how IBM Rational Compilers are helping customers maximize application performance, lower total cost of ownership and realize a higher return on their IT investments. See what the latest compilers can do for your application on Power Systems.


JK Insurance wants to grow its market share — to attract new customers and retain existing ones by offering higher quality service than their competitors. The company decided to transform their claims processing by allowing policy holders to report and track status of their claims online 24/7 without the need for phone calls. IBM's Rational Enterprise Modernization solutions for Power Systems enabled JK to optimize and extend the value of their technology assets distributed across IBM i, AIX and Linux operating environments--helping JK cut development and application maintenance costs while maximizing the ROI of their custom C/C++, RPG, COBOL, Java, EGL and packaged applications.



JK Insurance wants to cut costs and grow its market share - they want to attract new customers and retain existing ones by offering higher quality service than their competitors. The company decided to transform claims processing by allowing policy holders to report and track status of their claims online 24/7 without the need for phone calls. IBM's Rational solutions for System z provided all the tools to help make this seemingly complex task straightforward. It delivered an advanced solution in a short time. With a comprehensive portfolio of leading services, tools and skills to support the entire enterprise optimization lifecycle, IBM helped JK Insurance rein in maintenance costs and extend the life, flexibility and value of their existing applications, development skills, team collaboration and infrastructure investments.


Speaker, Stefan, Andreasen, Founder and CTO
Stefan talks about ability and modernization with System z and the benefit of centralizing on z as a sharable environment for web applications.

Lowering your total cost of multiplatform applications


Speaker, Kenny Smith, Senior Architect
Strongback Consulting specialized in helping customer modernize their enterprise and applications with HATS into new features and interfaces.

Lowering your total cost of multiplatform applications


Businesses need to proactively manage change, instead of struggling to keep up. Rational's Enterprise Modernization story provides best practices for managing an enterprise's Applications, People, and Team to achieve the optimal business value in today's tough economic climate. Customers can reduce project risk, exploit new technologies, empower new and existing IT staff, increase employee productivity, and improve operational efficiency and cost. Many options are available to get started today, achieve a quick ROI this year, and invest in long-term strategies that will position your company for the future.


Watch this illustrated demo to learn how IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions can help accelerate software innovation on System z, enabling organizations to leverage growing ecosystems of skills, solutions, and services. These new solutions help you unleash the power of your software assets and skills quickly, easily, and economically to support rapidly changing business needs.


Learn how IBM's Enterprise Modernization solutions and resources can help customers modernize and accelerate software innovation for IBM i on Power Systems, while protecting and continuing to grow their long-term application investments. These solutions can help you unleash the power of your software assets, architectures, and skills quickly, easily, and economically to support rapidly changing business needs.


Using Rational to Modernize Applications

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Kapow Technologies

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Strongback Consulting

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The Business Challenge — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Reuse Proven Applications — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Manage Your Application Portfolio — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Discover and Manage Business Rules — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Low Cost and Low Risk Migrations — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Accelerate Mainframe Development — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Portable Mainframe Development — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Increase Company Agility — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Accelerating Smarter Computing with IBM zEnterprise

Increase Application Performance — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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Modernize Batch Applications — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solution

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Getting started — IBM Enterprise Modernization Solutions for System z

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