Upcoming ISG Provider Lens reports will evaluate providers helping enterprises and U.S. public sector agencies modernize legacy applications to meet current needs
Information Services Group, a leading global technology research and advisory firm, has launched a research study examining service providers that enable enterprises and U.S. public sector organizations to migrate or adapt mainframe applications for agility, modernization and cost reduction.
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“With the current pace of advancement in applications and user expectations, mainframes are too complex and slow to change”
The study results on enterprise mainframe products and services will be published in a comprehensive ISG Provider Lens™ report, called Mainframes — Services and Solutions 2023, scheduled to be released in March 2023. The report will cover companies offering mainframe platform and application modernization, mainframe operations and mainframe as a service (MFaaS). At the same time, ISG will publish the U.S. Public Sector Mainframes — Services and Solutions 2023 report, covering providers with experience in delivering mainframe modernization to state, local, municipal and educational entities in the U.S.
Buyers at enterprises and public agencies will be able to use information from the reports to evaluate their current vendor relationships, potential new engagements and available offerings, while ISG advisors use the information to recommend providers to the firm’s buy-side clients.
Mainframe systems and applications that have served many organizations for decades are proving inadequate to new requirements for enterprise agility and for improved and expanded government services. Some companies and public agencies are using automated tools to transform legacy applications to new ones in the cloud with standardized application languages and databases. Others outsource the applications to service providers to run them on cloud-like mainframe data centers on-site or in remote locations, often on a pay-as-you-go basis in MFaaS engagements.
“With the current pace of advancement in applications and user expectations, mainframes are too complex and slow to change,” said Jan Erik Aase, partner and global leader, ISG Provider Lens Research. “Providers offer multiple ways to bring familiar mainframe applications into the modern age without losing any functionality.”
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For the mainframe services and solutions study, ISG has distributed surveys to more than 120 mainframe product and service providers. Working in collaboration with ISG’s global advisors, the research team will produce five quadrants representing the mainframe services and solutions the typical enterprise is buying, based on ISG’s experience working with its clients. The five quadrants are:
- Mainframe Modernization Services, evaluating providers of mainframe application modernization, which retains the original programming language and allows clients to embrace agile methodologies for development and maintenance of applications running on mainframe systems.
- Mainframe Application Modernization and Transformation Services, covering providers of services for assessing and rewriting applications in legacy programming languages. Capabilities include automation of code writing, data conversion, database migration and cloud migration.
- Mainframe as a Service (MFaaS), assessing infrastructure services providers that offer shared IBM mainframes on a pay-per-use basis. The services include all components of the infrastructure, along with maintenance services to ensure workloads perform according to pre-established metrics.
- Mainframe Operations, evaluating traditional outsourcing providers with experience in mainframe services, which may be delivered in the client’s data center, provider-owned data centers or colocation facilities.
- Mainframe Application Modernization Software, covering vendors of software and toolsets for assessing and converting mainframe applications. Modernization software may include automation tools for reverse engineering, business rules extraction, code review, inspection and other functions.
Geographically focused reports from the study will cover the global mainframe services and solutions market and examine products and services available in the U.S., Europe and Brazil.
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