How FinTech Companies Are Changing the Financial Services Landscape
October 11, 2016
In early 2016, a Russell Reynolds Associates survey found that executives anticipate the consumer financial services industry to be one of the most heavily affected by digital disruption.
Despite[...]
APIs Connect Businesses to their Market, Wherever it May Be
February 07, 2016
Business is transforming. Once business was conducted at specific places. Now it can be conducted anywhere through a variety of channels including cloud, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT). And[...]
Little by Little Goes a Long Way with Done-For-You IBM i 5250 Legacy Modernization
January 17, 2016
When most companies begin a legacy data modernization project for their IBM i (AS/400) systems, they assume they have to convert their thousands of 5250 screens in one gigantic project. Having[...]
Breaking Bad Projects: How APIs Fuel Legacy Modernization For Your 5250 Systems
December 16, 2015
Modernization of Legacy applications that reside on IBM i AS/400 and mainframe infrastructures is not an easy undertaking. These systems have been developed over years or decades at considerable[...]
Challenges and Opportunities in Quick Customer Responses
November 05, 2015
Customers on-the-go appreciate their service providers delivering meaningful, useful information to them – directly to their mobile devices. For example, imagine the effect of sending a[...]
Responding to Customer Events with Agile Mode Tools
October 20, 2015
Engaging with customers in meaningful ways has become a central theme in customer retention. For example, IBM sights the importance of delivering “personally relevant and rewarding experiences” as[...]
BPM + API Integration = Business Speed
September 08, 2015
One of the common themes of IT over the years has always been that disparate systems are not easily integrated, which has led to effectively slowing down corporations and their ability to quickly[...]
ETL vs. API: Understanding the Implications for Legacy Modernization
August 25, 2015
Business is changing, but there are two things you know for sure. You love your legacy mainframe systems, and you need to modernize to help keep your company competitive in today’s mobile world.[...]
Questions We Were Asked at the WMCPA and NEUGC Events
April 08, 2015
March was a busy month for OpenLegacy as we made our way up to Wisconsin and Massachusetts for two regional COMMON events. In this post, we wanted to share a few notes on our experience and our[...]
API 101: The Fast Path to Legacy Modernization
March 18, 2015
Since the advent of IT, the inability to easily integrate disparate systems has plagued corporate efforts to adapt to changing business needs. Fed up, technologists created Application Programming[...]
Tips on Calculating the Average Cost of a Legacy Mobilization Project
March 12, 2015
Legacy mobilization is a top-of-mind for many of today’s CIOs. They consider it a necessity, and chances are, they have a pretty good understanding of the key steps that will be involved. The one[...]
Mainframe and Legacy Systems: The Classic Cars of IT
March 03, 2015
Design, power and durability. These are the qualities that most people – including the younger generations – tend to associate with the classic American muscle car. This is also how a true IT[...]
Choosing the right tool to extend legacy’s reach to the Web, mobile and cloud networks
January 22, 2015
Legacy systems offer high stability and high quality data. But you need them to go farther: for example, work with other applications running on other platforms ranging from the cloud, to the web[...]
8 Reasons API’s Are Replacing the Big Vendor Integration Approach
November 21, 2014
If your company is a typical large enterprise, you have hundreds – maybe thousands – of applications that your team built, you bought from a third party vendor, and came built into a legacy system.[...]
OpenLegacy 2.0 Released - Mobile, Responsive Web and more
October 27, 2014
Since launching OpenLegacy, the input that has flowed in from customers and developers has been great, and we have collected it to guide us in later versions.
Accessing Legacy applications with REST API
September 25, 2014
One of our main focuses at OpenLegacy is to deliver an API for all developers, and not just for Java developers. To do that, on top of OpenLegacy's powerful Java API for legacy screens and programs,[...]
OpenLegacy modules API
July 20, 2014
Typically a legacy session API is very "boring". You perform a get screen action to retrieve the current screen and data from it, and perform send key to perform some action on the current screen,[...]
