The Customer is an American Fortune 500 shipping, receiving and supply chain management company operating vast cargo networks and fleets throughout the US, Europe and Asia. With over $97 billion in total revenue in 2021, they have more than 500,000 employees globally and serve 220 countries and territories.
Liber*M Mainframe Modernization Suite
The LIBER*M Mainframe Migration Suite:
The cost-effective solution for businesses tied down by legacy mainframes
Legacy mainframes: Millions to maintain without key agility today’s business needs
Mainframe legacy applications are a critical asset to your business, but their technological limitations and sky-high support costs make them increasingly unsustainable in today’s business world. When it comes to modernizing mainframe applications, the challenge is to preserve your existing business processes, gain flexibility and scalability—while slashing total cost of ownership.
Migrating Your Mainframe to the Cloud Can Save Millions
The average annual cost per installed MIPS is about $1,600. Hardware and software accounts for 65%
of this total, or approximately $1,040.
Consequently, the annual infrastructure cost for a 15,200 MIPS mainframe is approximately $16 million.
AWS Partner Network Blog; June 12, 2018
LIBER*M gives you options!
When modernizing your databases and applications you have a variety of options based on your existing system, your current business needs and your goals for the future. These include:
- Repurposing
- Refactoring
- Replatforming
- Rearchitecting
At mLogica, our expert team can help you determine, through a comprehensive assessment of your existing system, which option or combination of options will help you achieve your goals for greater technical capabilities, increased agility and scalability and dramatically reduced IT costs.
As the experts in automated mainframe migration to the cloud, mLogica makes low-cost, low-risk mainframe modernization possible. Our proprietary automated methodology, experienced team and rigorous quality assurance testing are the keys to seamlessly migrating large, complex, on-premise mainframe business applications and databases to a modern cloud platform with maximum speed and accuracy.
Which mainframe modernization strategy is right for your business?
Repurposing
Not all organizations want to move off their mainframe technologies, due to factors including cost or regulatory obligations. For these businesses, it’s possible to repurpose selected applications and databases to level up their performance with the modern technology ecosystem.
On-premise mainframe datatypes and databases can be modernized and migrated to a relational database management system (RDBMS) while keeping them on-site. Examples include modernizing IBM IMS DB or VSAM to IBM Db2.
Similarly, aging programming technologies can be repurposed to integrate existing applications and databases with advanced programming toolsets. For example, re-factoring ASM to IBM Enterprise COBOL or IBM Enterprise COBOL to Java. Repurposing is also an excellent approach to consolidate technologies on both the data and programming language fronts.
This method makes existing mainframe technologies more powerful, maximizing operational efficiency with minimal cost impact—an effective approach for organizations that want to future-proof core applications, databases and programming languages built over time without migrating to an entirely new platform.
Replatforming
Replatforming migrates a business’s mainframe applications and databases to a new runtime environment with minimal changes to the code, while simultaneously ensuring code structures, functions and features remain intact. This allows organizations to offload their mainframe technologies from legacy z/OS, GCOS8 and more to an x86-based Linux environment and transform them using new and better toolsets.
Refactoring
A more complex methodology, refactoring restructures and optimizes the existing code to improve performance, functionality and overall efficiency of mainframe programs. This modernization approach implements significant modifications to the code base of applications and databases, with the goal of removing technical debt and improving non-functional attributes that restrict agility, cost efficiency and innovation.
Refactoring allows businesses to modernize their legacy database environments such as ISAM, VSAM, Db2 and IMS DB to a relational RDBMS environment. We can also refactor legacy mainframe programming technologies such as Easytrieve, Assembler, Telon, PL/I and other 4GLs to COBOL, Java and C# and migrate COBOL to Java, C# and C++.
Rearchitecting
Rearchitecting materially changes the code of mainframe programs. This approach migrates mainframe workloads to new application architecture so that enterprises can integrate advanced features into their applications and databases.
Rearchitecting starts with an automated in-depth analysis of the existing assets, including assessment and abstraction of embedded business rules using business logic extraction (BLE) technology. Once this process is completed, automated tools can be effectively used to create the bulk of the new application.
Rearchitecting end-of-life mainframe systems allows businesses to gain enhanced capabilities by leveraging an optimized mix of modern technologies. This is an effective approach when the objective is not just to perform a like-for-like replacement, but to implement functional changes without undergoing a full rewrite.
mLogica clears the way to mainframe migration to the cloud by effectively reconciling the twin demands of business: protecting the rich functionality of legacy applications while using standard and open-source technologies to slash total cost of ownership turning your systems into a platform for innovation.
Designed for rapid, controlled, virtually seamless modernization of mainframe business applications, the LIBER*M Mainframe Modernization Suite combines the best of legacy application modernization approaches, allowing organizations to migrate off mainframes while still fully leveraging their existing assets.
With LIBER*M, mLogica offers the most powerful suite of legacy migration tools available, leveraging decades of expertise in cross-platform migration of the most business-critical enterprise software and mainframe environments. We also license our compiler and translator to our customers in a subscription model.
LIBER*M Customer Success Stories
Mainframe modernization, whether on-prem, to the cloud or via a hybrid solution, has saved mLogica clients millions in support and licensing costs while boosting critical adaptability, scalability, performance and security.
GLOBAL SHIPPING PROVIDER DATABASE MIGRATION FROM IBM IMS TO IBM Db2
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Government Agency - MODERNIZATION OF ALL STRATEGIC APPLICATIONS
The Customer is a national public sector agency that provides diverse forms of social security payments to more than ten million beneficiaries in their country. These include subsidies for housing, family and childcare support, educational allowances and more
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GOVERNMENT AGENCY - REFACTORING MULTIPLE TECHNOLOGIES TO JAVA AND MIGRATION OF IBM Db2 TO ORACLE
The Customer is a government agency that for more than fifty years has processed, provided and serviced billions in student loans and grants to recipients both domestically and internationally. The organization also disburses loans for various other social programs and performs amortization services.
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LEADING INSURANCE COMPANY – DATABASE MIGRATION FROM IBM IMS TO MS SQL
Founded in 1824, the Customer is a European insurance company that offers an array of coverage for businesses and individuals, including life, auto, accident and more, in addition to supplementary pensions. They also have a distribution partner network of over 5,000, including brokers, agents and banks. With more than 4,000 employees, over 2.7 million retail customers and 245,000 corporate and self-employed clients, the company’s operating result in 2020 was €636.1 million.
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liber*m fact sheet
Your legacy mainframe applications are vital to your daily business, but they come with sky-high support costs, a dwindling labor pool trained to support them, and critical technological shortcommings that limit your ability to grow, adapt and maintain data security.
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MAINFRAME MODERNIZATION FOR GLOBAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY
The Customer is a major oil and gas corporation offering a variety of petroleum products and services to clients worldwide.
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