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Empowering Enterprise Organizations to Greatly Reduce
Total Cost of Ownership & Unlock Rapid Innovation   

Mainframe operations and maintenance expenses, i.e., system Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), are the fastest-growing IT expenses for enterprise organizations. Many of these systems house decades of technical debt alongside the organization’s critical data and business rules. Today’s technological advances, including artificial intelligence (AI), disaster recovery, and real-time data analytics, far outpace the capabilities of these increasingly fragile legacy systems, which stifle an organization's ability to innovate and meet customer expectations. In addition, the tight labor force and significant gaps in skills challenge organizations to support these mission-critical systems. IT managed services provider FNTS is launching a new partnership with software modernization services provider TSRI, empowering organizations to embrace their digital future through Mainframe Optimization. 

FNTS and TSRI have decades of mainframe expertise and have helped many organizations move workloads to an environment that achieves greater value from their longstanding IT investments—whether that means staying on the legacy mainframe or moving to a contemporary cloud or hybrid computing environment.

“While the mainframe is a platform of choice for enterprises that rely on computing power and stability, its legacy technology and software requirements are complex and expensive for organizations to maintain without the latest technologies or skilled staffing in place,” said FNTS President Kim Whittaker. “When it comes to Mainframe Optimization at FNTS, no mainframe is too big, no environment is too complex, and there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. We can support any path to optimization and modernization.”

FNTS and TSRI work together to assess and optimize mainframe environments for the customer’s best outcome, whether that’s simply rehosting or fully modernizing and replatforming the data and workloads simultaneously or in phases. With this strategic roadmap, the FNTS and TSRI team can continuously execute modernization priorities, empowering organizations with the competitive agility to meet end-customer demands and substantially grow their business. 

Rehost through Mainframe-as-a-Service
Organizations can leverage their legacy mainframe with a Mainframe-as-a-Service offering. Like a standard “lift-and-shift migration,” this approach optimizes and migrates current workloads to a cloud-like environment on the mainframe or FNTS’s onsite data centers. Rehosting doesn’t require code changes and ensures existing mainframe data is managed and fully available, making this a feasible option for some applications long-term, or an attractive first step to gain immediate cost savings before a full-scale modernization to cloud. On average, clients can save up to 20% in IT budgets annually using this model. Additional cost efficiency can be achieved through license analysis, software consolidation initiatives, database optimization, and determining which applications and data should remain on the mainframe and which can be retired or moved to the cloud.

Modernize and Refactor Applications
The mainframe applications code, databases, user interfaces, and externals are transformed to 100% functionally equivalent modern solutions and languages, including Java and C# .NET Core. Automated refactoring rules are applied to the code, leveraging modern programming standards and quality scans to achieve maintainable, human-readable, forward-development-ready code. This 99.9X% automated process reduces technical debt, including removing dead and redundant code, consolidating duplicate records, eliminating code smells, and resolving security vulnerabilities. Custom refactoring rules tailored to customers’ unique business needs can also be applied and reused across enterprise-scale IT ecosystems. Converting applications and services to newer, more contemporary code allows organizations to innovate, stay agile, and be competitive while accelerating time to value and often decreasing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 80 – 90%. 

Replatform to a Contemporary Cloud-Native Environment
Converted databases and applications are integrated into a flexible and scalable architecture via containerization that can include any cloud platform, SaaS, or hybrid-cloud model, taking full advantage of each cloud platform’s performance and scalability features, AI frameworks, resilience, and service environments. In addition, the modern ecosystem is enhanced with automated test frameworks, CI/CD pipeline templates, and prioritized customer support, accelerating business-driven development and a path to evergreen modernization.

“Through industry-leading automation and insight, our joint Assessment and Mainframe Optimization solution empowers IT teams with better decision-making, smarter digital transformation, and long-term cost reduction,” said TSRI President Nicolas Newcomb. “We rapidly bring enterprises into modern AI-ready cloud environments, while maintaining their ability to benefit from emerging services across hybrid architectures. As pioneers in AI modeling, we constantly evolve our methods to ensure mission-critical systems are modernized with the highest fidelity outcomes, and the least risk and business disruption in the industry.”

The Time to Optimize is Now
Through Mainframe Optimization and Application Modernization, enterprises can unlock innovation, agility, and long-term operational savings through rehosting and/or end-to-end application and database modernization. By consolidating software, decommissioning hardware, where appropriate, and transitioning more IT costs to an operating expense model, organizations stand not only to avoid risk and save on capital expenditures, but also to gain control and flexibility over their critical IT infrastructure.    

Learn more about Mainframe Optimization at www.fnts.com/mainframe/mainframe-modernization.

TSRI sub-contracted with Senryo Technologies to support the Assessment Modernization Plan for the US Railroad Retirement Board with Peridot Solutions LLC.  The effort involved the use of TSRI’s JANUS Studio® toolset to document 12,000,000 lines of code and comments which were written in COBOL, JCL, EasyTrieve, and Assembly.  The total comprised approximately 500 applications.

Customer: Railroad Retirement Board and Peridot Solutions Source & Target Language: COBOL Lines of Code: 12 Million Duration:  2 Months Services: Assessment, Application "As-Is" Blueprint®, Engineering Support, Target Architecture Design, Consulting

When companies and governments need to migrate their mission-critical applications to the cloud, they will need a partner to make that transformation as smooth and efficient as possible. And when it comes to modernization, a highly automated process will get them cloud-ready quickly and accurately. TSRI is here to help organizations begin their modernization journey, and we are honored to be named as a Validated Partner in Amazon Web Services’ new Mainframe Migration Competency!

The AWS Competency Program is designed to identify, validate, and promote AWS Partners with demonstrated technical expertise and proven customer success.
The Competency designation helps AWS Partners differentiate their business to customers by showcasing their products and services in specialized areas across industries, use cases, and workloads. AWS Partners are vetted, validated, and verified against a high bar to achieve the AWS Competency designation.

TSRI joins an elite group of integrators and technical specialists in this competency. With more than 25 years of experience and leadership in modernization across multiple platforms and languages, we are perfectly positioned to help organizations with legacy architectures migrate to the cutting edge.

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