According to those who were involved, the vast majority of executives claim that their businesses have increased their efforts to transform in the face rapidly changing market conditions. a surveyThe IBM Institute of Business Value conducted the survey. More respondents also stated that the pandemic eliminated all barriers to long-term transformation, including cultural roadblocks. The centrality of cloud computing has been confirmed by dual imperatives, including remote working and rapid fluctuations of scale and scope.
The past two years have seen virtually every tradition of business rewritten. But what impact has all this turmoil had on the foundations of IT infrastructure? Is it possible to include legacy applications in the new digital world? Is there still a role for the mainframe?
According to the IBM survey, the overwhelming answer is yes. According to the IBM survey, mainframes are still an integral part of business’ IT systems. However, they also play a key role in driving their digital transformations.
According to the IBM survey, executives of some of the most successful and largest businesses believe that cloud and mainframe are not mutually exclusive. Both are interconnected in order to deliver enterprise-wide agility, and capability. Together they can secure operations, reduce latency, drive legacy processes to dynamic innovation previously possible only for born-in the-cloud insurgents.
In context, mainframe and cloud
Mainframe computers have been supporting mission-critical applications in the world’s most important industries for over 60 years. According to the survey. Fourty-five percent of top 50 banks, four out of five top airlines and seven of top 10 global retailers use the mainframe as their primary platform. 67 Fortune 100 companies also use the mainframe.
These executives are emphasizing that the mainframe is no longer the same. IT leaders integrate and extend mainframe capabilities in order to support agility, new business innovation, and other goals. Modernization of the underlying systems and applications is a key part of digital transformation strategies. As usual, the challenge is deciding which applications should be modernized, how to modernize them, and identifying their destination. These elements can be a challenge for IT leaders who have a vision. They are able to quickly execute and capture new value.
Some organizations are falling behind. Their leaders urgently need to ask themselves a crucial question: How do I extract more value from my mainframe investment — an investment that supports almost three-quarters of my organization’s processing power and the applications that house and operate its core functionality?
To answer these questions and others, The IBV is in collaboration with Oxford Economics surveyed 200 top IT executives across industries in North America about both their mainframe systems and transformation strategies and the intersectionality between them. The businesses surveyed comprise almost 30% of the S&P 500 and drive almost 40% of economic activity in North America.
Research shows that organizations are seeking more holistic solutions to integrate disparate data sources across their internal and external systems and processes as they transform operations. Modern mainframe systems are proving to be a boon for executives. However, they also recognize the importance of modernizing the applications that run on them in order to achieve maximum agility, flexibility, performance, and efficiency.
The report provides guidance on how to get more out of mainframe assets by using their insights and analysis. This report examines why modernizing apps on the mainframe is critical for successful hybrid cloud strategy implementations and how they can be combined to support holistic digital transformation.
You can view the complete IBM report here.
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