In 2024, mainframes, the workhorse of the tech world, started to really show their age. Stable? Yes! Dynamic? No! The focus and urgency regarding mainframe modernization and migration continues as resources retire and the latest market entries on modern cloud-based tech stacks offer new products/services/capabilities.
Situation: A client wanted to transform the business. The result would mean shutting down their mainframe and ancillary applications, then building modern, cloud-based versions.
Impact: Techstra built a functional blueprint for delivering a cloud-based solution that is client-focused, accurate, transparent, and responsive to business and market needs.
A bespoke Techstra team, each with over 20+ years of industry and transformation experience, created a target-state feature map, analyzed and rationalized the 1,500+ components on the mainframe and current-state processes, and held innovation sessions with business/technology stakeholders to challenge market convention. Migration and AI-based tools were evaluated for fitness and acceleration of future competitive requirements.
Creation and realization of this shared vision required a strong partnership between the business and technology teams, with Techstra serving as a bridge between the two.
