Today millions of lines of RPG application code are running critical business functions on AS/400, iSeries and System i servers. While this code works perfectly well and is a source of competitive advantage, it also hinders innovation.
Outdated and incomplete documentation, inefficient tools and skills gaps limit your ability to support new capabilities that users have come to expect.
One of the important decisions you are facing is when and how to modernize your RPG applications to provide improved user interfaces and integration with new technologies, such as web and service-oriented-architectures (SOA).
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The IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for System i help organizations cost-effectively and incrementally evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies, reducing maintenance burden and freeing up more of your resources to focus on developing new business requirements and capabilities. |
The IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for System i offers:
| What is your role? |
Typical challenges |
| CEO, line-of-business manager, CIO, CTO, VP of development, business analyst |
We need to need to keep pace with modern technology and infrastructure.
How do we leverage our applications to create the flexibility necessary to implement new products and services without large disruptions to our current business? |
| Senior software development manager, development manager, project manager, operations manager |
We need to simplify application maintenance and make it easier to incorporate new technologies as they emerge.
How can we leverage SOA in a manner that is quick and cost efficient? |
| Software architect, Systems analyst, developer, tester |
We need a modern software delivery platform that supports combined RPG, COBOL, Java™ and Web services development.
How can we create new business applications once and then deploy them across platforms? |
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