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Legacy applications are a valuable resource which can be reused and extended providing enduring business value. These applications are core of the business transactions which are carried out in the finance, banking, insurance, government and other major industry sectors. These legacy applications are primarily written in COBOL on and run on mainframes. There are a number of influences that cause enterprises to consider mainframe migration but maintain the COBOL business rules.
- High cost of IT operations dominated by mainframe software and hardware license fees
- Rich associated with reduced industry investment in mainframe software and skills
- Inflexible IT systems resulting in poor responsiveness to business and technical innovation
Decisions to migrate off the mainframe is often triggered by the following events
- End of life of hardware/software platform
- Requirement for major hardware upgrade
- Acquisitions, mergers and business reorganizations
- Regulatory changes
- Financial issues
This section Migration/Mainframe/Legacy is organized by readers' interests:
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