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Financial Services Firm envisions a COBOL-less future by collaborating with CloudFrame and EPAM as a partner.

A Financial Services (FS) Firm wanted to reduce mainframe COBOL application costs without disrupting operations. CloudFrame facilitated a collaboration between the financial services firm and EPAM as ...

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Financial Services Firm Accelerates Application Modernization by Automating JUnit Test Case Generation.

The client is a leading international financial services organization with a strong focus on providing protection and wealth management solutions. Operating in various markets worldwide, offering a wi ...

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Telecom Company Reduced Mainframe Application Costs with CloudFrame.

A large Telecom achieved nearly $4M in savings using an incremental project approach with CloudFrame, moving COBOL workloads to both cloud and zIIP eligible JVM. Backward compatibility with mainframe ...

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Large Credit Card Company Successfully Migrates Two COBOL Applications With Over 200 Batch Jobs in Record Time.

A tier-1 financial services company confronted a critical modernization challenge with two legacy applications. Extensive batch processing on a mainframe was utilized to generate extract files from di ...

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The Customer

For almost 90 years, this financial services company has been one of the largest banks in the United States and a household name. With over $50B in revenue, over $1T in assets and over 80,000 employee ...

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Global Bank finds a self-funding approach to Mainframe Modernization with GFT and CloudFrame.

A leading Global bank knew it needed to modernize its mainframe as costs increased, but it was also concerned about the impact on its daily activities and business disruptions. Digital transformation ...

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Why Modernization Projects Fail And How To Make It A Success – Series 10

When legacy modernization efforts turn into a battlefield between IT ambitions and business realities, the outcome is almost always the same: reality wins. Unfortunately, by the time reality prevails, ...

Read More Aug 27, 2024
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Why Modernization Is Hard – Series 9

Modernization should directly support your company's strategic goals. Whether it's entering new markets, improving customer experience, or enabling faster product development, the decision to moderniz ...

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Why Modernization Is Hard – Series 8

COBOL programs often generate reports where field formatting is handled using the 'PICTURE' clause. This clause allows for complex numeric editing and formatting options in these legacy programs. Most ...

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Why Modernization Is Hard – Series 7

Migrating mainframe COBOL DB2-based business functions to a cloud-native architecture is a daunting task. In our previous series, we discussed the various complexities involved in ensuring a smooth tr ...

Read More Aug 06, 2024
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Modernization Challenges – Db2 Syntaxes

A common occurrence in COBOL/DB2 programs is the coding of SQL SET assignment statement. This could be used for assigning Current Timestamp, Current Date/Time and doing various Date/Time arithmetic wi ...

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Why Modernization Is Hard – Series 6

Convoluted code logic can be found in any system or programming language, but modern languages are designed to minimize such issues. For example, the creators of Java opted against direct memory alloc ...

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Why Modernization Is Hard – Series 5

It is common to find COBOL or other legacy language application programs calling System modules viz. Standard z/OS Language Environment modules for Date functions, DB2 DSNALI/RLI modules for connectio ...

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Why Modernization Is Hard – Series 4

One of the biggest challenges in modernizing legacy applications is figuring out the program call chain and the functionality of various called programs. Scanning the source code alone is not enough t ...

Read More Jul 16, 2024
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Why Modernization Is Hard? - Series 3

COBOL compiler options significantly affect calculation results and logic flow. Both human intelligence and AI struggle to replicate business logic in newer systems without considering these options. ...

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Why Modernization Is Hard? – Series 2

The character comparisons use EBCDIC codepage which has different collating sequence than ASCII/UTF-8. The non-equal comparison operators viz. >, >=, <, <= can result in different results ...

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Why Modernization Is Hard? – Series 1

COBOL has its own rules for calculations that are hard to replicate in newer systems. We have seen thousands of different examples where the customer is unable to match mainframe-based calculations in ...

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Cloudframe’s Intelligent Cobol Transformation Platform Is Bolstered By Enhanced Partnership And Investment From Epam

CloudFrame has advanced their strategic partnership with EPAM, with an eye towards accelerating enterprise modernization efforts and furthering collaboration that takes advantage of evolving technolog ...

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The Role Of Mainframe Data In A Hybrid Cloud Environment

More and more organizations are adopting a hybrid approach to their IT environment. In the context of computing and IT infrastructure, a hybrid environment combines multiple types of resources or tech ...

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CloudFrame Announces Hans Otharsson as Chief Operating Officer

Extensive Technology and Industry Experience Strengthens CloudFrame Executive Team CloudFrame has announced a new Chief Operating Officer: Hans B. Otharsson. Hans has been a trusted business advisor t ...

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CloudFrame Wins the 2021 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx

SUFFOLK, VA - June 2, 2021: Intellyx, the first and only analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation, today announced that CloudFrame has joined the inaugural class of their 2021 Digital Innovato ...

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