UST Global Joins Mainframe Migration Alliance

sanjay.jain — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:39:00 GMT

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – October 9, 2008: UST Global(UST), a leading provider of IT services and solutions for Global 1000 enterprises, announced that it has joined the Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) to extend its legacy modernization offerings for UST clients.

Joining the MMA gives UST the ability to offer its clients a broader set of migration options that incorporate Six-Sigma, Microsoft .NET, run-time compilation tools and skilled resources to deliver immediate return on investment with highly effective modernization strategies. By focusing on the needs of mainframe users, UST believes this alliance can accelerate the migration of workloads off the mainframe and onto more agile and cost-effective platforms.

“Enterprises want to know that the IT services company they select to convert the applications in their legacy systems will be there through thick and thin,” said Lawrence I.Lerner, head of the UST Global legacy modernization practice. “UST Global has the best methodology and is ranked number one for its legacy modernization services. Clients feel comfortable with UST’s methodology and respect our comprehensive management of end-to-end modernization. They repeatedly tell us that they can trust us.”

"We welcome UST Global to the Mainframe Migration Alliance," stated Scott Rosenbloom,senior product manager, Enterprise Modernization at Microsoft Corp. "With UST Global’s methodology and experience, we are confident they will provide value to existing MMA members and customers to help move mission-critical applications from expensive mainframe systems to the more agile and cost-effective Windows platform."

Mainframe Migration Alliance addresses specific enterprise needs
Mainframe enterprises typically have requirements of scale, such as near 100 percent application availability or the ability to handle thousands of transactions per second, as well as a deep investment in technology and business process. However, these enterprises also seek flexibility in adding Web capabilities and the new services that modern platforms offer. Addressing these requirements requires technical depth in both the mainframe and target platforms.

UST Legacy Modernization: Uniting a savvy team with proven methodology to ensure efficient project results

The UST legacy modernization practice combines service offerings, methodologies and tools to make legacy modernization easier and more efficient for enterprise clients. UST legacy modernization services include:
- .NET modernization services including legacy execution within the .NET runtime
- Application architecture and transition management
- Business rule mining and re-engineering
- Windows infrastructure, performance engineering and maintenance
- Requirements-based test automation
- Process and change management

UST provides a unified development process supported by proven methodology. It assumes complete responsibility during all phases of the project including requirement analysis,design, development, testing and deployment to ensure project success. UST’s methods
and tools yield risk-adverse and predictable results that are known early in the delivery cycle,which helps clients to lower costs.

The approach is led by a savvy team of analysts and senior engineers from the UST .Net Center of Excellence. The team works in conjunction with QA Labs, UST’s independent software testing organization, to execute rigorous testing and performance engineering.

Smart Legacy System Transformation

sanjay.jain — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:12:00 GMT

In today’s Compliance Driven world, the giants in the field of Banking, Financial Services, Retails and logistics still uses their legacy system which is far behind from recent trendy technology. Enormous number of companies, legacy applications are mission-critical (it is estimated that 70% of the world’s data still resides on the mainframe) and this makes it one of the reason for not getting replaced. The companies have identified a need to replace the legacy system applications.

Most of the Legacy application uses the Systems developed by Independent Software Vendors which the companies pay up a lump of amount annually for system maintenance and license renewal. Such ISV (independent software Vendors) does not get a full hand support from the other third party tool Developers which feels the platform as moving towards a Sunset. This condition has fully worsened the problems of application developer in these platforms and Lack of associates skilled in these technologies and high running cost results in the Legacy Conversion.

Read the full white paper on UST Global's Smart Legacy System Transformation approach.

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UST Global Joins Mainframe Migration Alliance

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