Unpacking Competitive Advantages with API Integration

The digital economy is no longer a subset of the broader economy but has evolved into the global economy itself, there is no longer a distinction. Digital native start-ups have tactfully inserted[...]
How to Leapfrog Legacy Complexity with a Modern API Integration Strategy

[Originally published by Jason Bloomberg in Brain Blog, Intellyx, May 1, 2017]
The contrast between traditional legacy integration and modern API-based approaches is profound – especially when[...]
Adapt, Renew, Transform: Bridging the Digital Transformation Gap in Banking and Financial Services

Digital disruption is causing problems for long-standing enterprises across many industries, but none may be more vulnerable than well-established financial services companies. In a 2015 equity[...]
How FinTech Companies Are Changing the Financial Services Landscape

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

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

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

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[...]
Your 5250 Screens to Mobile In A Click - Why Now Is The Time To Get Started.

Many businesses shudder when the subject comes up regarding how to bring their IBM i AS/400 Legacy systems out of the days of green screen character-based functionality. Typically the choices are[...]
Challenges and Opportunities in Quick Customer Responses

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[...]
Legacy Modernization for Healthcare

It is a widely accepted myth that medicine requires complex, highly specialized information-technology (IT) systems. This myth continues to justify soaring IT costs, burdensome physician[...]
ETL vs. API: Understanding the Implications for Legacy Modernization

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.[...]
An Ode to Middleware

Today, we say goodbye to one of the greats of the software industry: Middleware. More of a concept than an off-the-shelf product, it allowed companies to see beyond application silos and envision[...]
Mainframe Modernization: Migration or Integration?

Everywhere you turn, B2B tech vendors are trying to convince you that you need to upgrade your legacy systems. “It’s time to embrace the mobile business world”, they say. “It’s time to invest in[...]
Defining Your Tolerance Level for Legacy Modernization Projects

For companies that insist on traditional legacy modernization projects – which can take years and involve a massive overhaul of the company’s infrastructure – project tolerances are a familiar[...]
RPG: A Dead End or Path to Mobility?

Every good Mainframe/Mid-Range Administrator knows the value of RPG – the “official language” of backend application development. Originally released in 1959 for modifying punch card machines,[...]
Integration: The True Make/Break Point for Government Modernization

Any IT professional that has ever tried to modernize a government’s mainframe or legacy data store has inevitably faltered at the integration point. The complicated middleware schemes of the past[...]
Legacy Modernization: Are PHP and Java Mortal Enemies?

If you work on legacy modernization projects, you may have come to view PHP and Java as the mortal enemies of the programming world. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The DIY Approach to Legacy Modernization

For many organizations, the idea of a full-scale legacy modernization effort is a scary, nearly imponderable notion. Tearing down the company’s entire infrastructure to rebuild a more modern[...]
Those Were the (Mainframe) Days, My Friend

If you’re the type of person who gets upset when people talk about the death of the mainframe, and fondly remember using an IBM Selectric typewriter as an input console, then you, too, may enjoy[...]
Questions We Were Asked at the WMCPA and NEUGC Events

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[...]
5 Reasons Why Companies Resist Modernization

Are you struggling with the limitations of your legacy applications? Are you resisting or delaying a modernization project because of these roadblocks and challenges? You are not alone.
Bridging the IT “Innovation Gap”

No IT environment springs fully formed from the pages of Information Week. Companies make critical purchases – and inherit older systems – on a continuous basis. The key to institutionalizing[...]
API 101: The Fast Path to Legacy Modernization

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[...]
Develop Mobile Apps with AS/400 Applications: 6 Things to Avoid

No two development projects are the same; every enterprise will have different goals and success metrics for creating mobile apps tied to their AS/400 systems. Regardless of scope, there are[...]
Legacy Modernization Projects: The Forgotten Stakeholders

The CIO is onboard with the strategy, the IT staff has a well-crafted plan for implementation, and the developers have their marching orders. Who’s being left out? The end-users!
Rethinking Mainframe Modernization: Top 5 Misconceptions

With all the lip service paid to making business apps more mobile or accessible from the cloud, many mainframe owners are starting to feel left out. That’s because they still believe that[...]
The Fast Approach to Enterprise Modernization - When Less is More

In any situation of panic, the knee-jerk response is almost always to “do something!” Today, many CIOs are feeling a strong sense of panic around the perceived need to modernize their legacy[...]