Overview
HCLTech's Mainframe Services are designed to empower enterprises to navigate the complex dynamics of the IBMz mainframe ecosystem. As businesses face rising operational costs, a shrinking pool of skilled mainframe talent and the demand for modernization, HCLTech offers enterprises with solutions that are tailored to their specific needs, ensuring that their mainframe investments remain relevant for the business demands of today…and tomorrow.
With a rich legacy built on technical expertise and ingenuity our solutions drive cost optimization, service consistency and facilitate mainframe workload modernization efforts, while preserving the robustness and reliability that mainframes are known for.
Whether managing large-scale infrastructures, integrating advanced automation technologies, or enabling seamless modernization journeys, HCLTech ensures enterprises can achieve operational excellence and sustainable growth.
Mainframe Infrastructure Services:
HCLTech provides a comprehensive set of mainframe solutions which address this venerable technology in a true “end to end” manner. Our service offerings are broad, covering both the application and infrastructure domains and built in a “tiered” approach, allowing our clients to select the services needed to best fit into their existing enterprise support structure.
People-based services where HCLTech mainframe domain experts provide operational support and expertise for our clients’ owned mainframe environments.
- Staff Augmentation / FLEXpert Services
- Managed Mainframe Operations
- Mainframe Application Maintenance Services
- Mainframe Application Development Services
Asset-based services where HCLTech provides a full “Mainframe as a Service” solution – an approach where we provide the hosting, hardware, software and support services for our clients’ mainframe environments.
- HCLTech MFaaS
- HCLTech Linux Instant Capacity
These project-based services are designed to help our clients derive maximum value from their mainframe environments.
- Mainframe TCO Optimization
- Mainframe Infrastructure Modernization Enablement
- Software Rationalization
- Mainframe Performance Optimization
These project-based services help our clients transform their mainframe environment to the “next level”, fully integrating the platform within their enterprise hybrid cloud architecture.
- Mainframe Application Agile Implementation Services
- Mainframe Application “In-Place” Modernization Services
- Mainframe Application “To The Cloud” Modernization Services
Our Differentiators
Cost Optimization and Price Certainty
Innovative pricing and commercial constructs to ensure predictability and transparency throughout the service term.
Advanced Automation
Extensive use of advanced automation technologies ensures streamlined processes, fewer manual errors and operational standardization.
Flexible Services
Services which are tailored to our clients’ specific needs, utilizing leveraged, dedicated, or hybrid delivery models and infrastructure.
Lifecycle Management
Our services are founded upon a relentless focus on ensuring “supportability” of our clients’ environments, addressing outstanding technical debt and maintaining environments at OEM supported levels.
Resources
Mainframe software cost optimization: Taming that wild beast
Mainframe cost optimization driven by insights into software pricing models, strategic workload management and streamlined software asset utilization
Speed and Simplify Mainframe Application Modernization
Mainframe modernization is vital for securing critical workloads in AI-driven, hybrid infrastructures. HCLTech enables efficient, cost-effective transitions with robust MFaaS solutions.
Partner Ecosystem
Frequently Asked Questions about Managed Mainframe Services & Solutions
It includes 24×7 operations, system administration, capacity management, performance tuning, batch scheduling, incident/problem management, modernization support and integration with cloud ecosystems.
Clients benefit from optimized resource utilization, shared infrastructure, reduced overheads, dynamic scaling and lower total cost of ownership.
Yes we facilitate integration with cloud platforms, enable data access from cloud services and support hybrid operations seamlessly. HCLTech
Stringent access controls, encryption, audit trails, compliance (e.g. regulatory standards) and robust segregation between environments.
Banking, insurance, large enterprises, government agencies and sectors that run mission-critical legacy workloads still rely on mainframes.
We support modernization via rehosting, re-platforming, automated refactoring, wrapper interfaces and integration with APIs or cloud services using the ADvantage Modernize framework. HCLTech
HCLTech maintains a skilled pool of mainframe experts and uses automation to reduce manual dependencies, ensuring continuous coverage regardless of local staffing issues.
Through structured maintenance windows, automated failover, high redundancy, proactive monitoring, capacity planning and incident management.
We adopt incremental and non-disruptive modernization strategies, preserving business continuity, using phased migrations, wrappers and fallback approaches. HCLTech
Deep domain expertise, automation tooling, modernization frameworks (e.g., ADvantage, ATMA) and ability to integrate mainframe with cloud and digital ecosystems.
