Modernisation, Mainframes and Europe
Legacy Modernisation in Europe
Greetings from the UK. In the spirit of "when in rome" I'll drop my z's from this post.
I wanted to make a couple of quick observations for the level of activity I see in EMEA right now. It is very exciting, actually. I'm spending time right now the UK and France working with Oracle Partners and customers who have quite large systems that they are now looking to modernise. Notice I didn't say Migrate. A bit of a misnomer that is worth mentioning. Folks use Modernise and Migration often interchangeably.
Many modernisation efforts do note entail getting rid of the mainframe at all, but rather extending it via web services. A great value-add being implemented today, which falls under this category, is extending the mainframe and integrating that with other disparate data stores and reporting off with Enterprise Business Intelligence. With change data capture technology, we can pull data in near real time from IDMS, Adabas, SQL Server, whatever really. I've talked about that earlier.
Anyway...rabbit trail.
So, lots of activity here. From 10,000+ MIP Rehosts, SOA integration to automated migration of Cobol to Java....it can be found in about every country.
So, I say this to many of those who have considered these options, but don't want to be the first. That has been such a barrier for so long. I think now, we've past that moment. In a time with there is a high demand for cost saving AND agility, the time is ripe for Modernisation.
I have a few blogs posts that i'm working regarding re-architecture that I will be posting shortly. In the mean time, I'm very behind in finishing up some chapters for a book project on Legacy Modernisation, so...until later.
