Mainframe based core business applications are the lifeblood of organizations. Thriving in a competitive digital landscape means transforming the systems hosting core business processes. Micro Focus offers solutions to improve the application modernization for core business system development and delivery. It can be employed with enterprise application knowledge gathering, development, test and deployment tools, in order to improve the efficiency and time to market. This enables IT leaders to transform and modernize their core applications and respond faster to the new business requirements.

The Solution

This engagement was an initiative to re-host the clearing and switch transactions processing Mainframe applications, in order to meet the local regulatory requirements that mandates customer specific data be retained within the host country. Within a short span of time, Wipro implemented a solution for multiple critical and very complex applications to be re-hosted on Linux-AIX platform.

Micro Focus enables this transformation with minimum cost and risk, through a comprehensive joint solution with Wipro across three key pillars of modernization:

1. Application Modernization: Extend application value with low-risk innovation. From a modernized, secure web and mobile experience, to process automation, to APIs, web services, and managed code models that support composite application delivery.

2. Process Modernization: Match the enterprise application delivery speed to that of business pace. Achieve DevOps-ready rapid application understanding, agile development, continuous testing, accelerated delivery, and controlled user access.

3. Infrastructure Modernization: Achieve flexibility, security, and cost efficiency by deploying applications across host, server, Cloud, and mobile, insulating valued IT systems from infrastructure changes while assuring access security, governance and data protection controls.

Solution Supported

The set of tools available at each step of the Mainframe solution are outlined in Figure 1:

• Micro Focus is uniquely capable to support the modernization requirements without replacing the existing core technology investments. No other application modernization vendor provides the breadth of coverage in terms of modernization options, platforms, technical solutions or investment in core systems as Micro Focus
• Micro Focus offers products for Mainframe DevOps, which help customers to develop and deploy quickly
• It's a proven solution and Micro Focus has successfully implemented this solution in hundreds of customer environments
• Micro Focus and Wipro can demonstrate a variety of ways in which our solution can resolve particular bottlenecks and will not require significant investment from Customer

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Key Benefits

• Increased flexibility: Creates a flexible IT environment with new architectural paradigms such as web services, APIs; aligns IT systems to dynamic business needs.
• Modern development environment: Legacy and new developers can use the same new development environments, enabling them to develop legacy applications.
• Reduced risks: Re-use of business rules which have evolved over years.  
• Improved delivery speed: With the Micro Focus tools, development time and effort as well as time to market will be reduced.
• Minimized disruption: Micro Focus is a proven modernization framework, which reduces the risk when modernizing legacy platforms by combining two decades of development experience with new platforms. 
• Lower cost: Reduces high maintenance cost of existing legacy platforms and development tools, resulting in substantial savings in IT costs.