The Cost of Mainframe Modernization

Mainframe costs are well outpacing inflation. As organization grow and more end customers leverage online and mobile, mainframe capacity requirements are increasing by more than 10% per year. Third parties providers are taking advantage, renegotiating contracts while you are held captive.

The answer seems obvious—modernize and get off the mainframe. Yet, modernization is often seen as cost prohibitive. Once you add up hosting costs, SI specialists, staff engineers, modernization software and tools, don’t forget to factor in long-term contracts with your modernization solution/software provider. With all of that, it seems cheaper to do nothing and pay the ransom, and that’s not even considering the risks associated with change and what a severe outage would cost you.

At CloudFrame, we focus on accelerating and de-risking your modernization through iterative strategies. Our CodeNavigator software very quickly delivers high-quality performant java code maintainable by your java developers with no mainframe knowledge, allowing for immediate ROI and confidence for the next project. The converted code is 100% functionally equivalent, performs as well or better than its mainframe counterpart, is non-proprietary and completely yours—there are no ongoing vendor contracts/costs.