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Prepper Tips: 3 Ways to Survive & Thrive
in the Mainframe Apocalypse
People have been preparing for the worst for ages, but modern Americans have turned it into an art form. At the dawn of the Atomic Age, […]
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ADABAS Conversion: Choices and Best Practices
Advantages of ADABAS Conversion A broad view of organizational data is vital for management reporting, business intelligence, analytics, and decision support. But what happens when critical […]
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How to Evade the Horrors
of ERP Replacement
Large scale legacy ERP replacement is risky, expensive, and challenging. ERP implementation costs and deployment schedules are amplified by customization – the need to wrap the ERP solution around your business processes and applications. These projects are more known for their failures than for their success.
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Legacy Data Archiving – Lowering the Cost of an ERP Deployment
As we illustrated in our whitepaper, implementing an ERP solution that embodies the functionality of all of the systems it is intended to replace is next to impossible. It takes creative problem-solving and a little bit of luck to emerge successfully from one of these massive projects. An important area of focus when deploying a modern ERP system is legacy data archiving. Solving the problem of what to do with the data locked into the old systems you’re trying to get rid of can be more complex than you might think.
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Three Essentials for Reducing Risk
When Migrating from CA Gen to .NET
Whether migrating management support systems, operations infrastructure or reporting applications, the CA Gen to .NET modernization process can be highly complex, risky, expensive and time consuming. Below, we’ll outline three essential techniques you can employ to reduce the risk and complexity around a modernization effort.
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Three Essentials for Reducing Risk When Migrating from COBOL to Java
Whether migrating management support systems, operations infrastructure or reporting applications, the COBOL to Java modernization process can be highly complex, risky, expensive and time consuming. Below, we’ll outline three essential techniques you can employ to reduce the risk and complexity around a modernization effort.
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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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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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