Maintec Solutions

As digital transformation efforts drive change across the enterprise, the  mainframe  team finds itself at an inflection point. For organizations that have mainframes , these platforms have long been handling the core transaction processing at the heart of their businesses. Today, however, IT leaders face skills retention challenges as mainframe experts rapidly retire. Furthermore, the business challenges facing mainframe teams today are inevitably centered on strategic digital transformation initiatives. The result: CIOs must make the critical decision regarding the role of the mainframe in their digital efforts. The challenge today is bringing the mainframe into the modern IT context – modernizing its tooling, interfaces, and people to make the venerable platform an essential enabler of modern digital initiatives. Nevertheless, such an investment is absolutely critical, as the mainframe will continue to drive the business. Efficiency, reliability, and stability ...

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 tra...