As companies face increasing pressure to deliver more business value from their IT spending and free up funding for new business initiatives, reducing mainframe costs and modernizing legacy applications have become top-of-mind concerns for CIOs and CFOs alike. Business-critical mainframe applications often constitute invaluable assets, their embedded business logic representing years of development and evolution. Among large enterprises, these assets represent 70 to 80 percent of all business-critical applications; annual maintenance of mainframe hardware and supporting software consumes 60 to 80 percent of IT budgets. Moving these applications from mainframe systems presents several key challenges:

• How to preserve the business logic of these applications and their valuable data?

• How to maintain scalability, reliability, transactional integrity, and other QoS attributes in an opensystem environment?

• How to ensure that migrated applications continue to meet performance requirements?

• How to achieve predictable, cost-effective results and ensure low risk project?

Meeting these challenges requires a strong application infrastructure-one that natively supports key mainframe languages and transaction services, enables automated adaptation of application code, and delivers proven, mainframe-like QoS on opensystem platforms. It must also provide native SOA enablement to rapidly extend re-hosted applications for integration via a services infrastructure.

BEA’s Mainframe Re-Hosting Solution combines the industry-leading multi-language application server and SOA infrastructure with best-in-class solution and services partners. The result is a robust, SOA-enabled environment for re-hosted batch and transaction processing (TP) applications, combined with a proven, low-risk, highly automated migration process.