Four Ways Mainframe Shops can Embrace Mobile – Part 2
Forklifting in a new solution In this post, we’ll take a close look at perhaps one of the most common solutions addressing the challenge of new mobile demands on legacy systems adopted by large organizations. With the exception of “doing nothing,” the most commonly...
Four Ways Mainframe Shops can Embrace Mobile – Part 1
In today’s multi-platform, multi-OS and multi-data format corporate computing environments, there is a high demand to make the mainframe systems work with web, mobile devices and, potentially, any device that can be connected to the Internet-of-Things (IoT), in...
Webinar on Demand – Mainframe Rules Processing Optimization
Business rules must be processed quickly, which is why they are often embedded in the code of rules processing applications. That makes them difficult to maintain: to modify rules or to create new rules. And within a rapidly changing business environment, that is a...
Webinar on Demand – Solutions for z/OS Software Pricing Concerns
You have mission-critical business applications running on mainframe systems. It’s important to your business that processing gets done as fast as possible, but pricing strategies ensure that you pay plenty every month to do that. How can you maximize performance...
Intensity in hockey playoffs… and in IT finance planning?
It’s NHL hockey playoff season. I love this time of year: the days are longer and brighter, the geese are back in town, the weather is warming up and, more importantly, the smell of playoff hockey intensity is back. Well, in Canada this year it’s not as normal since...
Webinar on Demand – Cost Savings While Increasing Capcity
IT organizations struggle with two seemingly divergent challenges: the need to control spiralling operational costs while also keeping ahead of the capacity curve to ensure their systems have the capacity to handle both planned growth and seasonal upswings. The bad...
Webinar on Demand – Five Ways to Improve IT Efficiency and Profitability for Healthcare Insurance
Since its inception, the Affordable Care Act has created the largest growth in the number of insured people in four decades—greatly affecting the IT burden within the insurance industry as a whole. Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act five years ago, about...
Webinar on Demand – New Application Development – Leveraging Legacy Apps and Databases
You have a desperate need to make your mainframe systems work with modern technologies like mobile, analytics, IoT, and more. However, your most valuable IT asset is your IP that is buried in your mainframe COBOL applications. How can you use that IP to extend your...
Webinar on Demand – How Db2 Professional Capacity Planners can Reduce Costs and Drive-Greater Value
For any company, reducing costs is of paramount importance as it enables much-needed resources to be reallocated to business-critical projects. One effective way to reduce operational costs and drive greater value from the mainframe is to address Db2 performance...
It’s a Trap
As the new Star Wars movie approaches, I recall how much I enjoyed the movies when I was a young boy, and I’ve been watching Star Wars all over again with my sons. The classic scene in Return of the Jedi where Admiral Ackbar cautions “it’s a trap!” caught my ear even...
