How do you Tackle IBMi Modernizations?

With spiraling IT costs, migrating from legacy systems like IBMi has become a priority for many companies. Despite their widespread use, these systems often struggle with inefficiency and high costs, making modernization essential. “83% of IT executives feel that modernization is central to their organisation’s strategy” according to IBM.?

United Techno have spent decades on legacy modernization and are experts in the field. This has resulted in a definitive approach in assessment and solutioning. Our tailored solutions have helped hundreds of clients worldwide shift to modern architectures, enhancing app functionality and web services integration. Our experts ensure that your core systems transition smoothly and continue to operate seamlessly.?

A best practice approach encompasses several key strategies:?

- Renovating to support new technologies, streamline operations, and integrate with modern applications. This improves performance and ensures your systems meet current demands without a full overhaul.

- Data Re-engineering to move legacy applications to modern platforms, particularly cloud environments. This involves strategizing complete data migrations to enhance accessibility and scalability.

- Interface Modernization as updating the user interface is vital. Transforming outdated interfaces into modern, web-based ones improves usability and accessibility.?

What United Techno Use Cases have focused on Modernization?

ETL (Extract Transform Load) pipelines are a fantastic use case, one of many United Techno are well versed on. For one retailer, United Techno developed a configurable ETL pipeline, moving core domain data from AS400 DB2 to an Azure SQL Server database warehouse. United Techno also developed SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension) Type 2 implementation, and alert notifications for failures or delays. This meant data was easily accessible, historical data tracking improved, and manual effort reduced. The client achieved consistent data across departments, saving time and resources.?

United Techno developed a global alert framework for another client. This integrated source systems to import logs and to create help desk tickets. It included processing log information every 15 minutes, with dynamic ADF (Azure Data Factory) pipelines for priority-based alerts. This enhanced issue tracking, and reduced email overload.

Using Custom Services

United Techno offers custom development services with expertise in modernizing existing applications across multiple domains to cloud via integrated solutions. This enhances existing infrastructure or allows you to build new applications. These services are competitively priced with global delivery, meaning we’re both capable and cost effective.

We have extensive knowledge handling a multitude of different solutions. These include web service integration, developing custom .NET solutions and dashboards, DB2-Mulesoft integration, system fine tuning, performance improvement, UI (User Interface) modernization and API (Application Programming Interface) integration to name a few. We also specialise in enhancing data accessibility, improving data quality, and providing issue tracking through .NET-driven solutions.

“For many organizations, legacy systems are seen as holding back the business initiatives and business processes that rely on them” says Stefan Van Der Zijden, VP Analyst, at Gartner. How would an investment into legacy modernization look for you? Reach out to United Techno today to discover how our expertise can empower your efficiency and innovation.