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"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again". Bonnie Prudden

HTWC is a provider of Mainframe Modernization products and solutions addressing

• The strategic need to Modernize along with

• modernization ™s contribution towards achieving company targets, outlining

• what exactly is modernization and

• why organizations should modernize

The strategic need to Modernize

Mainframe modernization has different drivers; costs reduction, leveraging off new technologies, addressing skills ™ shortages. On a higher level, modernization strategies need to be derived from the overall business and subsequent IT strategies.

The big driver is the speedy adaption of organizations to changing internal and external environments;

• Shortening product and market lifecycles

• Traditional competitive landscape is changing frequently “ more virtualization

• Conformance to increasingly regulatory requirements

• Embracing appropriate technologies

• Faster rate of organizational change “ Mergers, Acquisitions and virtual partnerships

Agile and modular architectures build upon very clear strategies and infrastructures is a very key differentiator going forward.

We at HTWC recognize modernization as just that; not a means to an end, but the dawn of a new age where IT really takes on the role of being a major business development contributor. It is the first step towards organizational Cumulative Causation. This means, a successful modernization starts a positive snowballing effect whereby the success of one step breeds more success for the next. This deems modernization an inherent part of IT strategy planning and implementation. IT Modernization, and hence IT consolidation, is proving to be one of the main contributors to the realization of IT strategic goals.

How does Modernization contribute to achieving strategic goals?

• Cascading business and IT strategies to the modernization strategy

• Making existing applications more agile “ their value sky rockets as a result

• Understanding application and data architecture, and functionality

• Speedy payback periods and high ROIs

• Redefining IT budgets - Shifting budget from œretaining status quo , over to innovation and dynamic IT

• Create compatibility and homogenous development environments “ increase the productivity of happier staff

• Leverage off modern development environments with an abundance of pre-defined objects and skills ™ sets

• Integration of cost effective off the shelf solutions

• Intelligent and flexible IT grows revenues, increases market share and reduces costs

What exactly is Mainframe Modernization?

Modernization is the continuous evolution of IT infrastructure and operations toward a centrally supported framework, enabling upgrades, migrations, new technology introductions and rapid adoption of change with a minimal impact on day-to-day operations and service delivery.

Modernization consists of 4 main elements:

1. Platform Modernization: Entails the decoupling of Mainframe applications and databases from the legacy operating systems and resources, and plugging them into open, more efficient environments such as Windows, UNIX and Linux.

2. Application Migration: Entails the iterative transfer of enterprise applications and databases onto a more efficient environment, culminating in a complete platform re-hosting

3. Application language Conversion: Means the recreation of applications in more modern, efficient, open and compatible development languages.

4. Application Data Mining: Entails an automatic, thorough œtop down, bottom up  audit of enterprise applications providing the transparency required for making objective strategic decisions for individual applications or the entire suite. Organizations or any IT departments can use different type of methodologies like a complete Application Portfolio Management or a simple discovery that analyzes workload profiles and determines the operating behavior of the current environment.

Application Portfolio Mining helps to discover a correct strategic framework that will enable establish main goals, including guideposts for modernization The outcome is a thorough migration plan and ROI forecast.

Why Modernize?

• Up to 80% of IT budgets are tied up in Mainframe maintenance and licensing costs

• Skills for languages used to write legacy applications becoming extinct and expensive

• Integration and consolidation of enterprise IT

• Organizations need to benefit from the large and growing ecosystem of œoff the shelf  applications, in order to remain competitive

• Maintaining applications and software infrastructure in a legacy environment consumes most of the IT budget and human resources which does not permit for continue growth of the organization

• Consolidate and align with modern technologies, vast option of scalable and more affordable platforms

• Maintenance is rather expensive so reducing or eliminating ongoing maintenance and support fees for expensive and proprietary legacy infrastructure can boom the flow of investing into innovation rather than not doing anything

• Faster optimization of business processes

• Obtaining less business disruption - business will run more smoothly because reducing duration of IT outages and the frequency

By modernizing, today ™s approach in the business service process gives you an assurance that through the implementation of HTWC solution, you can achieve more with less. By reducing disruptions or improving service delivery or increasing IT ™s agility, it can enhance the ability of your business by reducing IT staff workload and increasing staff efficiency as well achieving to lower required staff skill levels.

Final result that many of our customers are achieving already, is meeting the demands of the business and improved service quality, delivering more services, and gaining reduced IT costs.