Automating Your Modernization Strategy

In many organizations today, there is a need to modernize legacy systems to improve the alignment between IT and the business needs. For many companies, this need to modernize IT legacy systems is critical to their future. The competition in most industries is requiring that new business requirements be implemented with increasing speed and agility. The MOD Group's modernization solutions lower the risk of modernization while shortening the time it takes to modernize your systems to a single budget cycle. We use World Class automated Software modernization "Machinery" that has been a full decade in development. Our modernization technology enables lower risk modernization projects. The DMS Software modernization technology enables multiple modernization approaches including Full/Partial System migration, Software Remodeling for a Services (SOA) approach, and Web-Enabling your legacy system.

Why Modernize?

High cost of operations and upgrades
Lack of flexibility and agility
Long time to market for new products
Shrinking mainframe labor pool
Vendor roadmaps forcing tough decisions
The Application no longer supports the business
Compliance Issues - Business/Financial

There is no lack of reasons to modernize in most organizations. The pressure to lower costs and add new business capability is unrelenting. The real question for most IT organizations is not, "Why modernize?", but "How should we modernize?" The risks of the typical modernization project can be daunting. After 20 or 30 years of investment in a legacy system that has been successful at enabling your business to grow, can you afford to start over? For most, the answer is no.

When is the right time to Modernize?

Yesterday's IT-Systems were not built to meet today's business needs.

The right time to modernize is now.

Modernization Strategies

Leverage your existing legacy system or start over with a new development?

Over the years IT professionals have found that trying to understand the complete requirements of their legacy applications is almost impossible. Often they underestimate the level of effort necessary to produce meaningful documentation that will enable a new project to build all of the functionality that the business needs today, let alone new business needs that arise during the project. Our solutions will modernize your legacy system with significantly lower risk whether you want to Thin-Wrap Web-Enable your legacy application, move to a Services Oriented Architecture or completely migrate to new technology.

The MOD Group Advantage - Projects at:

Half the time
Half the price
We take you from maintenance to maintenance
100% application migration
We leave you with source code that you can go anywhere with - Vendor Independent.

TMG Solutions	Benefits
Full/Partial Legacy System Migration	Significantly lower risk than manual conversion projects. Automated rule-based software Migration provides consistent and highly maintainable source code on new technologies such as Java/J2EE or C#/.NET. Conversion enables faster time to market for new products through highly flexible technologies throughout the technology stack. Moving to new technologies, such as Java, provides a larger resource pool to develop new business functionality. TMG Technology will migrate all of the components in your legacy system - source code, scripting, and database.
Remodel to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) modernization	Provide your legacy functionality as a set of services to your business customers enabling the right type of access to meet each customers needs. Get a more maintainable legacy system, enabling faster business process changes. Combine services for flexible processes and user interfaces. Deliver more to customer and field sales in more locations (field accessible). Enhance availability of more data to field sales. Expose the business functionality as services that allow faster business process changes.
Thin-Wrap Web-Enable	Provide a new web presentation layer with better data access to your customers is a great starting point for some organizations.
Cobol Analysis & Business Rules Tools	25% increase in analysis productivity with 20% reduction in project timescales and 20% reduction in application support costs. Improve maintenance quality and increase staff portability while reducing support risk. 500-1000% times faster than manual alternatives. Achieve consistent quality of analysis. Reduce need for senior analyst time. Eliminates analysis of dead ends and incorrect logic paths. Provides real business rules not just code fragments. Offers real flexibility for future rule re-use. Helps teams work efficiently together.

The MOD Group (TMG) provides a total service to help you intelligently modernize your systems in order to outperform the competition. By using TMG's modernization solutions, companies can modernize legacy applications much more quickly than traditional approaches at a significantly reduced cost.

The MOD Group (TMG) is a Service Solution company dedicated to helping you modernize your Legacy IT Systems.