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«With HTWC, Modernization is the risk free and cost effective transformation of legacy IT infrastructures and operations toward a centrally supported, modular framework, enabling upgrades, migrations, new technology introductions and rapid adoption of change with a minimal impact on day-to-day operations and service delivery. »

The immediate effect felt is a reduction in IT operating and licensing costs through shedding redundancies and moving applications and databases to more cost effective environments. Whilst creating a leaner, modular and more transparent application and database environment. Thus freeing up budget and creating capabilities to integrate "bilt-on" services as required and creating an environment of innovation, where IT no longer presents barriers, but business development opportunities.

Success Breeds Success: Start a continuous series of positive knock on effects through the most holistic and comprehensive suite of modernization products, tools and services available to Mainframe shops

MASTERING BUDGET PRESSURES: Modernization with HTWC has helped global organizations to save huge chunks of their IT budgets for investing in business development IT activities as against maintaining status quo.

SUPPORTING BUSINESS GROWTH: Enabling growth without the need for expensive rewrites, unproven external packages or additional mainframe hardware costs

MANAGING YOUR IT: Understanding your application portfolio to know the true cost and value of the systems in place enables educated decisions about current and future needs

Mastering Budget Pressures

Refurbishment Versus Replacement - How often are applications deemed obsolete, only to be replaced by off the shelf or re-written versions? Modernization guarantees a retention of the asset value, whilst breathing new life and agility into the application and the ability to further integrate this.

Through platform Modernization, massive savings are achieved through the hosting of IT services on open platforms such as Windows, UNIX and Linux. It is not unusual for major organizations to slash their operating costs by 80%. One of our services is to conduct a ROI forecast, examining from many perspectives the potential savings to be realized, across one or more projects and financial periods.

Supporting Business Growth

Saving money equates to shifting budget away from retaining status quo to investing in forwared looking IT initiatives.
Take your IT assets into the future, and leave behind the deadwood

• Cloud Computing

• SOA

• Easier integration of the latest CRM technologies

• Realizing of sales and Marketing Campaigns

• Web and Mobile integration

• Outsourcing non core activities

• Implementation of new products and product lines

• eCommerce and mCommerce

• Market research and segmentation. Grow the more profitable and long term segments

• changing processes to conform to regulatory Compliance( e.g. SOX)

• Real-time reporting requirements

• More efficient operations

• Data collection techniques and accurate warehousing

Managing your IT

Through the transparency created through Application Data Mining, organizations are very quickly aware of which parts of their IT require valuable resources, and which don't
Service Orientated Architecture

Modernization of applications makes it easier for SOA specialists to bolt on protocols, hence enabling the deployment of applications as recognized services as against developing/purchasing applications for services as they come on stream. These services then can be called upon by applications across the network as required.

This creates amazing levels of flexibility for burning topics such as:

• Integration of the latest CRM technologies

• Realizing sales and Marketing Campaigns

• Web and Mobile presence

• Outsourcing non core activities

• Implementation of new products and product lines

• eCommerce

• Market research and segmentation grow the more profitable and long term segments

• Changing processes to conform to regulatory Compliance

• Real-time reporting requirements

• More efficient operations

• Data collection techniques and accurate warehousing

Cloud computing and Web 2.0

Part of application and platform modernization entails the standardization of applications and creating a very clear program inventory. Because of this, it is easier to integrate easier, more innovative and remote user access and user techniques.

Obvious examples: Dynamic GUI, Web 2.0, Mobile all of which play an inherent role in the trend towards cloud computing (or getting back to our electrical grid analogy, we call cloud computing Computing Capacity on Demand).