April
Modern Systems Wraps Up Successful POC With Large US Distributor
Modern Systems just wrapped up a successful proof of concept (POC) for a large distributor in the United States. Armed with peace of mind and a demonstration of Modern Systems’ capabilities, our client can move to the next phase of their modernization with confidence.
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How To Get Data From VSAM to
SQL Server Data Warehouse
VSAM can be found on almost every mainframe. In some cases it is hardly used and in other cases there are full featured mission-critical applications based […]
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Modern Systems Meets Major Project Milestone with US Media Company
Modern Systems and a large US-based media organization have been engaging in the conversion of a massive legacy system responsible for order management and billing. The system consisted primarily of COBOL and VSAM, and our customer wished to migrate away from the mainframe to a modern environment running Java with Oracle DB.
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New Big Data Battleground:
Connecting IMS to SQL Server
Over 95% of Fortune 1000 companies use IMS, but this old favorite is now squarely in the crosshairs of a big data rivalry.
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Incompatible: When New Applications Can’t Handle Old Data
Modern Systems has been working with the UK Government and their partners to move some highly critical and sensitive security data away from IDMS databases to modern platforms such as SQL Server on Azure. In addition to transforming and archiving the data, Modern Systems provided views to allow the data to be queried and utilized going forward. Transforming the data from IDMS to Relational has allowed the mainframe it was residing on to be retired, saving a large sum of money.
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Modernizing Data from VSAM to Oracle
VSAM can be found on almost every mainframe. In some cases it is hardly used and in other cases there are full featured mission-critical applications based on VSAM. A number of factors are driving enterprises worldwide to modernize from VSAM to Oracle.
Read moreModern Systems Announces Technology Partnership with Red Hat
Modern Systems, the leader in helping enterprise organizations modernize their existing application environment in alignment with business strategy, today announced its successful partnership with open systems solutions provider Red Hat.
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Modern Systems & Global QA Partner Bring Welcome Change to Insurance Firm
Modern Systems partnered with a large quality assurance testing company to modernize part of a massive system for a North American insurance company. Modern Systems converted the existing COBOL code to Java as part of a larger modernization project, then turned it over to our partner for testing and implementation within the context of the larger system. The insurer will continue to make changes to the Java and re-engineer the code as they see fit as time goes on. They chose Modern Systems for the legacy modernization work because of the maintainability of our automated conversion solution’s output. The end goal was to reduce dependency on COBOL knowledge, allow for reduced cost of change, and provide better scalability, portability, and flexibility. Modern Systems successfully moved the insurer from the mainframe COBOL-based platform to a mid-range Java-based platform.
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