TCS Mainframe Modernization on Google Cloud
Unlocking business value by seamlessly accelerating the modernization of mainframe applications
Solution
Google Cloud
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Highlights
- Modernizing legacy platforms and applications is an imperative for businesses to meet market demands quickly and collaborate better with ecosystem partners.
- By leveraging TCS’ contextual knowledge and accelerators, businesses can more easily modernize mainframe applications on Google Cloud.
- Organizations can leverage applications hosted on Google Cloud to gain efficiency and agility, which improves time-to-market and provides seamless integration with the digital ecosystem.
Overview
Scale quickly and securely leveraging Google Cloud’s native application services.
Businesses are looking to modernize their legacy mainframes to meet challenges such as slow integration with new technologies, inflexibility to launch experimental workloads, and rising cost of ownership. This report reveals that data access, business agility, and cost reduction are top drivers for mainframe modernization.
Mainframe modernization to hyperscaler public cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud, leads to higher productivity, business sustainability, and faster time to market. The services that help enterprises transition from on-premises mainframe hardware and operations, move software and data from mainframes to cloud, and migrate to new technologies are in high demand. Afterall, mainframe modernization can create up to a 60% reduction in operational cost, a 70% improvement in the go-to-market cycle, and a 50% faster integration with the business ecosystem, as our work with clients have shown.
Solution
Got optimal return on investment through risk-managed modernization to Google Cloud.
TCS’ tailored services, strategic approach, and comprehensive offerings address the challenges of modernizing mainframe applications and empower customers to create tangible business value. Here’s what we do:
- Discovery and assessment
Reduce discovery and assessment time by up to 30% using TCS’ inventory discovery enablers, Google Cloud’s G4 and Dual Run analyzers, and other market-leading tools from our partner ecosystem to create a modernization roadmap that prioritizes application and data migration based on the level of criticality. - Modernization
We leverage Google Cloud’s G4 service that allows clients to deal directly with Google for their mainframe modernization process, without the need to deal with third-party software vendors.- For applications that use standard mainframe technologies, languages, and data sources, TCS provides a migration capability that delivers a fast return on investment. With Google Cloud’s Dual-run and G4 accelerators, we help speed up modernization and reduce business risks by providing parallel execution environments.
We also leverage the TCS MastercraftTM suite of tools, such as rule extraction, data transformation, and quality engineering accelerators, to expedite modernization. - We provide step-by-step migration to the appropriate target landscape in Google Cloud for customers who want a steady modernization process. TCS’ experience of delivering incremental modernization offerings over the past 20+ years helps to migrate both bespoke and commercial-off-the-shelf applications across industry verticals.
We provide multiple modernization patterns for customers who want to prioritize business value over operation cost, ranging from API-fication to steady workload migration to data-first modernization.
- For applications that use standard mainframe technologies, languages, and data sources, TCS provides a migration capability that delivers a fast return on investment. With Google Cloud’s Dual-run and G4 accelerators, we help speed up modernization and reduce business risks by providing parallel execution environments.
- TCS’ end-to-end capability
Our factory approach to modernization, aided by robust DevOps processes, help build incremental and stable target applications on Google Cloud. This approach also ensures that in-flight changes in source applications are propagated seamlessly to the target application. With our industry-leading unified cloud operations offering, we provide continuity in management of operations. We also provide knowledge transfer to all IT stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition of applications to Google Cloud.
Benefits
Achieve high-level business value by modernizing complex mainframe applications on Google Cloud.
Using TCS’ expertise and the power of Google Cloud, companies can improve the performance, scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness of their mainframe systems. They can:
Save up to 30% on migration costs by using TCS and Google Cloud accelerators and services.
Accelerate migration by 20% to 40%.
Enable a risk-adjusted modernization, adhering to industry and regulatory compliance.
Achieve flexibility, efficiency, and faster time to market.
Incorporate AI and machine learning use cases into their modernization strategies.
The TCS Advantage
Accelerate your transformation with TCS’ accelerators, Google Cloud’s enablers, and our strong partner ecosystem.
Industry and mainframe experience: Over 25 years of modernization experience; more than 2 billion+ lines of code analyzed; experience in providing services for different mainframe-based applications, including IBM, Unisys, HP Fujitsu, and Tandem systems.
Strategic alliance with Google Cloud: TCS is a Google Cloud premier partner with a large and growing talent pool of Google Cloud-certified consultants.
TCS partner ecosystem: TCS leverages alliance partners to rehost, refactor, re-platform mainframe applications, and migrate mainframe data.
