IBM Consulting Offerings for Mainframe
Application Modernization on Azure
Let us Co-execute your Mainframe Application Modernization journey
IT leaders are tasked with integrating and extending mainframe capabilities to drive agility and business
innovation. In fact, four out of five organizations believe they must rapidly modernize mainframe-based
applications to keep up with the competition.1 The challenge, however, is in finding the best approach toapplication modernization—one that offers the best ROI.
IBM Consulting helps you design a hybrid cloud strategy with a single integrated operating model. Itincludes common agile practices and interoperability of applications between IBM® Z, mainframes andMicrosoft Azure. IBM places applications and data on the right platform and helps keep it secured, encryptedand resilient. It’s an agile, seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud platform with IBM Z at the core.
IBM Consulting works to accelerate mainframe application modernization, develop cloud-native
applications and drive IT automation with IBM Z and Azure. The joint approach allows businesses to innovate
faster, maximize investment value and reduce the need for specialized skills. For IBM Z clients, the IBM Z®
and Cloud Modernization Stack on the Azure Marketplace provides a flexible and integrated software
solution to support application modernization on the IBM z/OS® operating system, cloud native
development and API creation. The result is faster modernization at a lower cost.

IBM Consulting has identified four initial patterns in
support of a hybrid cloud approach:“Wi th Z DIH, M&T i s abl e to rei magine the ways
o u r c o r e b a n k i n g p l a t f o r m s c a n s h a r e i n f o r m a t i onan d events wi th our consumers —whether f or dataa n alys is or a p p lication c onsumption —andb e come a f ul l -fledged me mber of our d i gital
ecosystem transformation.“Russell Plew
Technology Senior Manager, M&T Bank

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Azure DevOps for z/OS applications can increase
speed and agility by shifting DevTest workload tocloud, have greater productivity with the IBM Z
and Cloud Modernization Center and use Azure
DevOps for enterprise DevOps.

2.

Simplify access from Digital Channels extends thez/OS reach to Azure by making z/OS business
functions and data available with APIs for newuse cases using Azure API Management.

3.

Real-time sharing between z/OS applications andAzure enables a faster, efficient and flexible way
to share core business data and information innear real-time between mainframe and digital
frontend applications running on Azure.

4.

IT Automation across IBM Z and Azure isenabled by using the Red Hat® Ansible®
Certified Content for IBM Z mainframes, which
includes collections that accelerate automationof z/OS, z/OS middleware products and other
IBM Z resources to provide the IT automationand management of hybrid cloudenvironment.

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Mainframe Application Modernizationon Azure
We support a hybrid cloud strategy that can:•Improve agility by enabling reuse of core backend processes and significantly reduce talent gaps.

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Deliver rapid innovation with an agile DevOps approach.

•Provide easier access to applications and data without significant changes.

•Optimize the costs of running or extending applications.

Case Studies

References•

Real time information sharing with zDIH

•DevOps for zOS applications•Application modernization on the mainframe,
IBM Institute for Business Value, March 2022.

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