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Mainframe migrations are always successful when you do it right. More than a decade of large scale enterprise mainframe migrations have led to best practices and strategies that establish robust distributed solutions, always outperforming their previous mainframe environments, and with more ongoing modernization flexibility and scalability. So what do you need for a successful migration? Selection of the right solution and solution provider is just the beginning. Experience gained through dozens of large migration projects suggests these 10 primary best practices. 1. Ensure that all 10 components common to all migrations are designed for and assigned clear ownership Establish ownership for delivery of each of the 10 components and obtain firm delivery schedule commitments. The 10 components are: ·          Primary programming languages (like COBOL, PL/I and Natural) ·          Secondary programming languages (like Easytrieve and Assembler) ·          Data infrastru

It seems many are turning once again to the faithful mainframe. Over two-thirds of the mainframe community are now increasing their capacity to support modern demands. There’s no doubting the performance, resilience and scale that the mainframe environment provides. In fact, the overwhelming majority of the world’s largest organisations across a variety of sectors use mainframes. These organisations are not static – they are ever-changing. As a result, their mission-critical mainframe applications can’t stand still. According to a Micro Focus customer survey, plans are in place to maintain or modernize 84% of mainframe applications in the near future. Moreover, Gartner recently asserted that 90% of all business applications - many mainframe-based - will still exist in five years. Starting from a position of strength Studies suggest that modernizing existing core systems and incrementally improving or adding capabilities to them is a statistically lower risk option. Typic

The rise of startups, the emergence of new technologies like big data, and faster networks. All of these are making most of us believe that distributed computing is here to replace the age old centralized computing. In other words, with the emergence of cloud and mobile computing, mainframes should soon become an obsolete technology. Well interestingly enough, mainframes don’t seem to be going out of the picture anytime soon. Ever since the launch of IBM’s first mainframe range in 1964, System/360, mainframes have never seen a dull day in business. Mainframes occupy a coveted place in various fields like banking, healthcare, finance, insurance, government, and a plethora of other public and private enterprises. Mainframes continue to be a favorite, especially with the banking sector. Major banks and financial institutions have mainframes at the center of their technological strategies. Do you think why? All this while you were told that the popular storyline is that n

As the old saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Although digital transformation tends to throw out many traditional tools in order to incorporate new ones, there are still some old school devices that still hold value for leading industries, and help drive innovation. Mainframes are among those tools. They play a central role in the way major financial services operate because they provide a foundation that supports how devices function. According to  Datatrain,  more than 70% of global Fortune 500 companies still use the mainframe to run their core business functions, because mainframes hold the capabilities to manage large amounts of data that financial  institutions hold. Banks use mainframes for ATMs, in order to store transactional data because they provide a type of processing power that devices, such as ATM’s need in order to perform. “Only big iron has the muscle to run real-time data analysis and analytics on all transactions, providing these organiz

The world of technology has constantly been experiencing changes in the  mobile app development trends from the past few years, and these changes are only improving our day-to-day lives via mobile and  web applications. Mobile app development is a domain that consists of some of the fastest growing industries and they are in no mood to slow down. So, here are five major upcoming mobile app development trends: Blockchain Blockchain  is a popular platform for handling cryptocurrencies and providing a secure environment for those who deal in finance, without any kind of interference of 3rd parties. Blockchain integration in mobile app development has offered companies in the finance sector as well as the banking sector with a secured platform where they can deal with the money confidently. Even the healthcare sector has seen a positive impact because of this development. Blockchain technology , facilitating various essential sectors, is destined to see a much brighter fut

When the first smartphone was launched for the general public in 1994, nobody could have predicted how integral a part of our life it will become. Currently we have 2.1 billion mobile users and in 2019, the number is expected to cross the 5 billion mark according to a report by  Statista . Another statistic to be noted before moving ahead is that according to comScore Future Digital Report 2018, 80-90% of mobile time is spent on mobile apps rather than websites. This leads us to believe that mobiles or rather smartphones have an ecosystem of their own, separate from computers and laptops. So, mobile app development has become an effective way of reaching uses/ target audience. 1) Custom Mobile App for Your Brand Even though websites are designed to be responsive and mobile friendly, apps provide a more intuitive way of browsing. This means that not just the services companies but those involved in sharing of information are also developing, or getting developed, mobile a