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Mainframe Modernization and Re-Hosting: Increasing IT's Business Impact Through Lower TCO and Greater Agility

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Overview This paper explores the business drivers and key success factors for many of the migration projects. It also presents proven transformation architecture for re-hosting legacy applications and data, describes SOA integration options and considerations when SOA-enabling re-hosted applications, explains project methodology for risk mitigation and automated tools that support it, and provides a foundation for the financial analysis and an ROI model derived from over a hundred mainframe re-hosting projects.

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Publisher	BEA Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., ROI - TCO

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