ISG to Publish Study on Modernizing Mainframes in the Enterprise Environment
November 08 2021 - 11:27AM
Business Wire
ISG Provider Lens™ report will look at ways
providers are helping enterprises move mainframe applications to
the cloud
Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global
technology research and advisory firm, has launched a research
study examining service providers that help enterprise customers
modernize their traditional mainframe-based IT environments and
move applications to the cloud.
The study results will be published in a comprehensive ISG
Provider Lens™ report, called Mainframes – Services and Solutions,
scheduled to be released in April. The report will cover several
mainframe-related services, including mainframe modernization,
mainframe application modernization and mainframes as a
service.
The report also looks at ways enterprises that prefer to keep
legacy applications on mainframe platforms can introduce agile
methods, DevOps, application programming interfaces and
microservices to improve agility and integrate mainframes with
private and public clouds.
Enterprise buyers will be able to use information from the
report to evaluate their current vendor relationships, potential
new engagements and available offerings, while ISG advisors use the
information to recommend providers to the firm’s buy-side
clients.
The new report will examine how service providers are helping
enterprises move to cloud environments and align their mainframe
applications with their digital business strategies, said Jan Erik
Aase, partner and global leader, ISG Provider Lens Research.
“Service providers leverage high-performance hardware and software
tools for continuous modernization, enabling mainframe applications
to integrate with new technologies and computing platforms,” he
said.
ISG has distributed surveys to more than 65 mainframe technology
and service providers. Working in collaboration with ISG’s global
advisors, the research team will produce five quadrants
representing the services and products the typical enterprise
client is buying in the mainframe space, based on ISG’s experience
working with its clients. The five quadrants are:
- Mainframe Modernization, examining providers that offer
legacy application modernization and introduce code repositories
such as GitHub or equivalents, DevOps integration, testing
automation and security testing. Modernization retains the original
programing language, such as COBOL, adding architecture
optimization and documentation to enable agility.
- Mainframe Application Modernization and Transformation,
covering providers of application development and maintenance
services with newer application modernization methodologies to
assess and rewrite legacy programming language applications written
with COBOL, RPG, Fortran, PL/1, Natural and others that typically
run on mainframes. The main target programming languages may
include Java, .Net, C# and others, enabling the same logic and
business rules to run on any platform, including the public
cloud.
- Mainframes as a Service (MFaaS), examining
infrastructure service providers that offer shared IBM Z mainframes
under a pay-per-use contract model. Services include facilities,
hardware, connectivity, mainframe network management, licensing,
operating system and subsystems, tools, and all maintenance
services that are required to keep mainframe workloads running per
the expected performance established upfront.
- Mainframe Operations, assessing traditional outsourcing
providers with extensive experience in offering mainframe services.
Typical participants employ experienced practitioners to cover
legacy mainframe technologies and the most recent mainframe
releases. Mainframe operations service providers offer skilled
teams to keep clients’ mainframes running. These services include
job scheduling, performance optimization, CICS©, batch, backup,
restore, system upgrades, security patches and other typical
mainframe operations.
- Mainframe Application Modernization Software, examining
providers of software and toolsets that enable legacy application
assessments and application conversion, including replatforming,
rehosting, refactoring, rewriting or reengineering. Mainframe
modernization software includes reverse engineering, business logic
mapping, business rules extraction, code review and inspection,
documentation, emulators, compilers, frameworks and application
development tools that can accelerate code modernization and
application modernization.
The report will examine mainframe products and services
available in the U.S., Canada and Europe. ISG analysts Pedro L.
Bicudo Maschio and Oliver Nickels will serve as authors.
A list of identified providers and vendors and further details
on the study are available in this digital brochure. Companies not
listed as mainframe service providers can contact ISG and ask to be
included in the study.
About ISG Provider Lens™ Research
The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only
service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical,
data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world
experience and observations of ISG's global advisory team.
Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis
to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners,
while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market
knowledge and make recommendations to ISG's enterprise clients. The
research currently covers providers offering their services
globally, across Europe, as well as in the U.S., Germany,
Switzerland, the U.K., France, the Nordics, Brazil and
Australia/New Zealand, with additional markets to be added in the
future. For more information about ISG Provider Lens research,
please visit this webpage.
A companion research series, the ISG Provider Lens Archetype
reports, offer a first-of-its-kind evaluation of providers from the
perspective of specific buyer types.
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading
global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business
partner to more than 700 clients, including more than 75 of the
world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping
corporations, public sector organizations, and service and
technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster
growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services,
including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory;
managed governance and risk services; network carrier services;
strategy and operations design; change management; market
intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006,
and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,300
digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countries—a
global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence,
deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research
and analytical capabilities based on the industry’s most
comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit
www.isg-one.com.
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