Mainframe Services
Leveraging IT investments to derive maximum business valueIt is estimated that, even today, the critical business operations of most of the enterprises are run on Mainframe systems and applications. Today, about 70% enterprises have mainframe applications and systems in their IT infrastructure, with about 25% having them at the core of their processes, making it a popular and proven platform for running very large mission-critical applications.
Mainframe Challenges
Despite its popularity and pervasiveness, CIOs are facing challenges in leveraging their Mainframes to maximize Business Value. Critical issues being:
- High cost of ownership
- Unavailability of skilled resources
- Complexity involved
- Maintainability of the application portfolio
- Planning and architecting IT for future demand
Therefore, there has been a surge in the modernization and migration drives undertaken by organizations looking at alternatives. On the contrary, there are organizations which swear by the robustness of their Mainframes and will not replace them for a long time. Such organizations tend to look at application support and maintenance services, application development, and infrastructure services to maximize the business value.
Industry Insights- Total cost of ownership and availability of skilled resources are the top Mainframe challenges today
- Mainframe ADM and Modernization are the two highest outsourcing priorities among enterprises
- Cost of the service is the top sourcing strategy driver, followed by need for skilled resource for Mainframe
- Application portfolio and technology rationalization are among the top strategic Mainframe focus areas
HCL - Mainframe Service Overview
At HCL, we provide end-to-end Legacy Applications Management services, critical mainframe infrastructure support, and Tool-enabled Migration and Modernization services to our customers that help them by transform their IT landscape while maintaining Business as usual.
Business BenefitsThe Mainframe practice at HCL is a single-window shop that delivers solutions for your business specific requirements and helps you in:
- Reducing TCO and complexity involved with Mainframe applications/operations
- Increase the business flexibility of your existing systems
- Modernize the existing Mainframe applications
- Migrate the existing Mainframe applications to the latest and standardized technology/platforms
- Integrate your day-to-day business operations and application portfolio
- Strategic Off-shoring, Integrated operations and application management
- Integrated approach to ADM and operations
- ITIL based process efficiency
- APO for portfolio rationalization
- Service driven legacy modernization
- Migration strategy based on MIPS usage and other migration objectives
- Integrated Mainframe Infrastructure and Application Management service offerings
- R&D partners to some leading ISVs
- High-end CPU optimization capabilities
- A dedicated Mainframe Centre of Excellence which gives thought leadership, develops solution frameworks, creates methodologies and build IPs
Service Offerings
Keeping in view on the industry requirements and practices, our Mainframe services focus on two broad areas:
