Application Modernization

Unlock the value within core business applications

Overview

Modernize your strategic COBOL and mainframe applications to better meet your changing business needs. Let OpenText™ enable your modernization journey quickly without compromising your core business systems and data. Our application modernization solutions help you build on proven IT investments you rely on every day. Deliver continuous value while managing a fast-paced and ever-changing IT landscape.

Unlock the true value in your strategic core business systems

Discover how to deliver immediate and incremental value, while securing access to core COBOL and mainframe applications. Achieving smarter application modernization means striking the right balance between cost, risk and speed to market.

• Manage IT costs and complexity
  Control costs by modernizing and optimizing IT operations and resources. Bring new development tools, skillsets and practices that balance IT spend and support your application strategy.
• Mitigate risks without compromise
  Deliver standardized data security across your enterprise, with modern host access by moving core mainframe applications to new platforms and environments like public cloud.
• Innovate faster and create new value
  Deliver new business value from existing COBOL and mainframe applications using modern tools and new platforms, including cloud.
• Build, deploy and secure applications at enterprise scale
  Scale mainframe and COBOL application resources on demand as needed to support changing business requirements and increased customer demand.
• Extend enterprise-level security to the mainframe
  Strengthen mainframe security and increase resilience to cyber threats with a single approach to secure application access for the enterprise and the mainframe.
• Access the mainframe from the cloud
  Enable secure, modern, centrally managed zero-footprint access to host applications on- or off-cloud.

Mainframe modernization

Deploy comprehensive and flexible analysis, development, test, and multi-platform deployment solutions.

• Micro Focus™ Enterprise Suite by OpenText™

  Modernize development of IBM mainframe COBOL and PL/I applications

• Micro Focus™ Enterprise Analyzer by OpenText™

  Application intelligence and analysis tool for better business decisions

• Micro Focus™ Enterprise Developer by OpenText™

  Modernize IBM mainframe applications

COBOL application modernization

Build, deploy and modernize your COBOL business applications.

• Micro Focus™ Visual COBOL by OpenText™

  Use this leading COBOL app development, deployment and modernization solution

• OpenText™ extend® / ACUCOBOL-GT

  Build and deploy ACUCOBOL applications across desktop, web, and mobile platforms

• Micro Focus™ COBOL Analyzer by OpenText™

  Enable intelligent application insight and knowledge for COBOL developers

Mainframe automation

Scalable RPA for mainframe application automation.

• OpenText™ Host Access for RPA

  Include the mainframe in your Robotic Process Automation (RPA) projects

• OpenText™ Verastream Host Integrator

  Modernize host access, integrate robotic process automation with mainframe data

Secure mainframe access

Block cyber threats by securing host access using MFA, TLS, and more.

• OpenText™ Host Access Management and Access Server (MSS)

  Extend enterprise-level mainframe security to the host via ID integration

• OpenText™ Advanced Authentication Connector for z/OS

  Provide a single framework for multi-factor or two-factor authentication

• OpenText™ Reflection

  Best-in-class terminal emulators that provide secure, reliable host access

Mainframe access in the cloud

Modern mainframe access, anywhere, anytime, on any device

• OpenText™ Host Access for the Cloud

  Zero-footprint browser-based access to host applications on-premises or in cloud

CORBA

Next generation CORBA solutions—ready for REST, Docker containers and the Cloud.

• OpenText™ Premier ORBs

  ORB and CORBA services for C++ and Java

• OpenText™ Real Time & Embedded

  Real-time CORBA designed for demanding applications

• OpenText™ CORBA Add-On for REST

  Enable CORBA objects to be exposed as REST services

• OpenText™ CORBA Add-on for Cloud, Containers and Virtual Environments

  Expose Cloud-based and containerized CORBA applications to external networks

Mainframe change management and deployment

• OpenText™ ChangeMan ZMF

  Software change, configuration, and release management for z/OS

What makes OpenText different

• Our agnostic position in the application modernization marketplace
  Instead of us prescribing a destination, you set the terms of your modernization journey. Your business strategy, powered by a flexible OpenText solution, drives the agenda.
• Our comprehensive, holistic view of modernization
  We will continue to support your application modernization strategy, with increased flexibility to enable the technologies that matter to your organization—to the cloud and beyond.
• Decades of experience and proven success
  We know what it takes to ensure you have a successful modernization journey, achieving success quickly, delivering new value to the business and avoiding costly, painful mistakes.
• The flexibility to run your solution anywhere
  Whether on premises, private cloud, or hyperscaler (Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure), we offer application flexibility and portability for your mainframe and COBOL systems.