A leading employee benefits company in the US was looking to modernize its legacy mainframe applications and make the most of the cloud operating model for business transformation. The core goal was to streamline process efficiencies, drive high performance and ensure cost savings.
Hexaware’s team of experts proposed a replatforming approach to cloud transformation. The mainframe migration to Azure roadmap identified that 96.7% of the code is compatible with replatforming software and recommended a complete re-host.
The execution across the 4 levers of people, process, technology and applications encompassed training and streamlined processes that ensured agile releases, testing, deployment and governance. The mainframe on Azure journey involved accelerated modernization with 12 million lines of code replatformed in 16 months.
Key Business Benefits
- ~57% Cost Savings with the replatforming approach
- Helped avoid an expensive upcoming 5-year contract renewal for mainframe hardware and software
- Empowered developers with a modern IDE and Dev & Test environment
- Modernized low-cost target database, flexible for both OLTP & OLAP processing
