Modernization

Structured approaches to system modernization and mainframe migration help us to identify the most cost effective solutions.
Constant downward pressure on costs, the attraction of ubiquitous standards-based programming skills, the increased programmer productivity offered by the newest tools and the desire to reuse existing IT systems for new purposes are all factors driving our clients to modernize their IT portfolio. Whether a client is heavily reliant on giant mainframe systems or has a very fragmented set of legacy applications, either of which is expensive to maintain, Saggezza can help.

Our modernization services are focused on reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), improving the ability of systems to support changing business strategy and simplifying the management of the IT portfolio. Our unique ability to tackle clients' highest value challenges, to use the very latest technologies and to optimize cost using a mixed-shore delivery model, mean we're a reliable modernization partner to CIOs and senior managers.

Saggezza's modernization offering:

Takes a unified approach
Makes smaller, more incremental changes
Leverages existing systems
Views IT investments as a portfolio
Looks at end-to-end cost of ownership

Case studies show that modernization initiatives have many benefits:

Significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership:

licenses for the latest technologies are significantly cheaper (Microsoft etc.) than mainframe licenses or even free (open source) - savings of 80% are realistic in some environments; the required hardware is cheaper and more ubiquitous; required maintenance and programming skills are cheaper and more ubiquitous

Greater reliability:

well designed, modern IT systems fail less frequently and are easier/cheaper to diagnose and fix when they go wrong

Greater IT efficiency:

migrating the costliest and most maintenance-hungry applications first frees up valuable mainframe-skilled resources to work on higher value tasks

Greater flexibility:

where mainframes favor communication in batches only, the latest platforms make inter-application communication possible in real time, giving much more responsive business functionality; new platforms can also be more easily changed and upgraded to respond to changing business needs.

We have a wide range of modernization experience which allows us to provide services tailored exactly to a client's needs.

Future Vision

Defining future technology vision
Defining target TCO
Improved MIPS cost per transaction
Setting achievable ROI targets

Baselining

System inventory
Application inventory
Code analysis
Retro-documentation
Analyzing current TCO
Financial data collection & analysis

Strategies

Defining solution architecture
Creating implementation roadmap

Implementation

Program definition and management
Application conversion factory
Optimized mixed-shore delivery

Techniques

Re-hosting
Re-platforming
Modernization with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Re-write
Re-engineer
Legacy architecture simplification