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  • January 25th, 2022

    Heirloom Computing Replatforms The Avon Company’s IBM Mainframe Workloads as Cloud-Native Applications on AWS

    Using Heirloom®, The Avon Company was able to decommission their IBM Mainframe

    SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — To meet its mainframe decommissioning goal, The Avon Company needed to migrate its Integrated Marketing Information System (IMIS) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). IMIS is a bespoke core IBM Mainframe application that had no alternative outside of the mainframe so the decision was made to replatform it to the cloud. To get there, The Avon Company created a technology ecosystem with Heirloom Computing and Cognizant that pivoted around AWS as the destination.

    Cognizant led the project, using Heirloom Computing’s Probe™ for application inventory analysis & collection, and Heirloom® for code refactoring and data migration.

    The IMIS application was replatformed into a cloud-native application running on the JVM and deployed to AWS, through a process known as automated refactoring using the Heirloom product suite.

    The migration project was completed on time and underwent a parallel production period that was aligned with the mainframe decommissioning milestone.

    Rick Boyle, Vice President Information Technology, The Avon Company

    “The Avon Company’s decision to decommission the mainframe was driven by a business imperative to exit the data center business. At the same time, we had to ensure that the integrity of the business-critical batch processing from IMIS was retained. Heirloom Computing’s cloud-native solution delivered on all the requirements with ease.”

    Gary Crook, President & CEO, Heirloom Computing

    “Once again, Heirloom has clearly demonstrated that it is the fastest lowest-risk approach to replatforming and refactoring mainframe workloads to the cloud. RPA automation and compiler-based refactoring underpin Heirloom’s unique approach, producing outcomes that are guaranteed to match existing function and behavior.”

    About Heirloom Computing

    Heirloom Computing is an award-winning enterprise software company that partners with Global Systems Integrators and cloud providers to replatform mainframe workloads as agile cloud-native applications on any cloud. Our Global 2000 clients select us because we deliver the fastest lowest-risk transformation journey with a fully transparent process using a software platform that puts you in complete control. For more information about how Heirloom® can increase agility, and save IT departments time & money, please visit http://52.23.23.73.

    Join Heirloom Computing on LinkedIn. Follow @heirloom.cc on Twitter.

    Media Contact:
    Glenn Boyet
    328357@email4pr.com
    (301) 980-0346

    SOURCE Heirloom Computing

  • November 17th, 2021

    Heirloom Computing Showcases its Single-Click Mainframe to Cloud Software Platform

    An RPA-infused integration of Heirloom® and Probe™ delivers an industry-first

    SAN FRANCISCONov. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In an industry-first, Heirloom Computing has achieved the remarkable feat of migrating an IBM Mainframe application to the cloud with a single click.

    For organizations looking to exit the data center business and migrate to the cloud, their mainframe infrastructure represents a challenging hurdle to clear. Heirloom Computing’s compiler-based replatforming of mainframe workloads, augmented with Robotic Process Automation (RPA), translates to the fastest, lowest-risk project delivery, with an unmatched ROI.

    This short video of a live session showcases how the orchestration works – it starts with a direct connection to a mainframe end-point to initiate the collection of a COBOL, CICS & VSAM application, all the way through to it executing on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk cloud platform as a Java, Apache Tomcat & RDS application.

    The entire process was orchestrated from start to finish using Heirloom Computing’s inventory analysis & collection tool, Probe. As instructed by Probe, the Heirloom software platform did the heavy lifting of automatically refactoring the code for execution on the JVM and migrating the data to Amazon RDS. RPA was used to automate the entire process, migrating the application in just 2 minutes.

    Pedro Maschio, Distinguished Analyst, ISG

    “Heirloom Computing is a rising star in mainframe modernization software because of the outstanding speed of delivery and performance that its solutions can offer to clients. This level of automation demonstrated here takes it to the next level.”

    Graham Cunningham, CTO, Heirloom Computing

    “Heirloom already delivers several unique, compelling benefits, and this showcase is a clear statement that we will not stand still. We are continuing to invest heavily in applying RPA for extreme levels of automation, covering all aspects of migrating even the most complex mainframe workloads to any cloud.”

    Other Resources

    Read the AWS and Cognizant case studies to understand more about how Venerable achieved escape velocity and savings of over $1M per month by replatforming their mainframe workloads to the cloud. “This has been a hugely impressive implementation that has enabled Venerable to adhere to its cloud-first strategy.” – Tim Billow, CIO, Venerable.

    Join Heirloom Computing on LinkedIn. Follow @heirloom.cc on Twitter.

    About Heirloom Computing

    Heirloom Computing is an award-winning enterprise software company that partners with Global Systems Integrators and cloud providers to replatform and refactor mainframe workloads as agile cloud-native applications on any cloud. Our Global 2000 clients select us because we deliver the fastest, lowest-risk transformation journey with a fully transparent process using a software platform that puts you in complete control. For more information about how Heirloom® and Probe™ can increase agility and dramatically cut OpEx, please visit http://52.23.23.73.

    Media Contact:
    Glenn Boyet
    323993@email4pr.com 
    (301) 980-0346

    SOURCE Heirloom Computing

  • May 13th, 2021

    Heirloom Computing Named a Rising Star in ISG Provider Lens™ Mainframe Services & Solutions U.S. 2021 Report

    Heirloom® recognized as Rising Star for Mainframe Modernization Software

    SAN FRANCISCOMay 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm, known for its industry and technology expertise, has named Heirloom Computing a Rising Star in its ISG Provider Lens™ Mainframe Services & Solutions U.S. 2021 Quadrant Report. In response to customer demand, ISG evaluated 47 vendors and service providers in five quadrants.

    As detailed in the report, companies designated as a Rising Star have excellent management and understanding of the local market. This designation is only given to vendors or service providers that have made significant progress toward their goals in the last 12 months and are expected to reach the Leader quadrant within the next 12 to 24 months due to their above-average impact and strength for innovation.

    The report recognized Heirloom Computing for:

    1. Migration speed and scale.
    2. Database transformation.
    3. Coexistence of programming platforms.

    Jan Erik Aase, Partner and Global Leader, ISG Provider Lens Research.

    “The mainframe modernization market has been accelerating in the last two years, driven by the need of organizations to increase agility and lower operating costs.”

    Pedro Luís Bicudo Maschio, Lead Analyst & Author, ISG Provider Lens Research

    “Heirloom refactors mainframe applications to cloud-native Java programs that can scale horizontally on AWS and other clouds. The company offers a modern refactoring toolset that attracts system integrators and cloud providers’ attention because of its code refactoring speed and scalability.”

    Gary Crook, President & CEO, Heirloom Computing

    “We’re exceptionally proud to have Heirloom recognized in this way. As the only cloud-native replatforming solution in the market, we remain committed to innovation that drives automation and value into every phase of the replatforming process to ensure risks are minimized and ROI is maximized.”

    Additional Resources

    1. Join Heirloom Computing on LinkedIn.
    2. Follow @heirloom.cc on Twitter.
    3. Read a recent case study from the financial services industry.

    About Heirloom Computing

    Heirloom Computing is an enterprise software company that partners with Global Systems Integrators and cloud providers to replatform mainframe workloads as agile cloud-native Java applications on any cloud. Our Global 2000 clients select us because we deliver the fastest lowest-risk transformation journey with a fully transparent process using a software platform that puts you in complete control. For more information about how Heirloom® can increase agility, and save IT departments time & money, please visit http://52.23.23.73.

    About ISG Provider Lens™ Research

    The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical, data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world experience and observations of ISG’s global advisory team. Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners, while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market knowledge and make recommendations to ISG’s enterprise clients. The research currently covers providers offering their services globally, across Europe, as well as in the U.S., GermanySwitzerland, the U.K., France, the Nordics, Brazil and Australia/New Zealand, with additional markets to be added in the future. For more information about ISG Provider Lens research, please visit this webpage.

    Media Contact:
    Glenn Boyet
    309498@email4pr.com 
    (301) 980-0346

    SOURCE Heirloom Computing

  • December 12th, 2020

    Heirloom Transforms Custom Mainframe CRM App to On-Premise Cloud in 90 Days

    FREMONT, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Heirloom Computing today announced that OCLC has utilized Heirloom® to enhance IT agility by transforming a mission-critical mainframe workload to a cost-effective, open-systems platform.

    When OCLC needed to enhance IT agility, they discovered that Heirloom PaaS was aligned with their need to modernize their application portfolio and move away from their dependence on an inflexible and expensive IBM mainframe infrastructure.

    “Heirloom’s platform and outstanding project team delivered on the promise of automatically transforming and deploying a complex mainframe workload to the JVM in 90 days,” said Tim Schwab, Director of Enterprise Applications at OCLC.

    Kevin Moultrup, Heirloom’s COO, said “With automatic transformation of mainframe workloads and guaranteed preservation of existing business logic, Heirloom enables any company with an expensive legacy infrastructure, to move with great speed to a Java platform that is cloud-enabled.”

    About Heirloom Computing

    Heirloom Computing is an enterprise software company that partners with Global Systems Integrators and cloud providers to replatform mainframe workloads as agile cloud-native applications on any cloud. Our Global 2000 clients select us because we deliver the fastest lowest-risk transformation journey with a fully transparent process using a software platform that puts you in complete control. For more information about how Heirloom® can increase agility, and save IT departments time & money, please visit http://52.23.23.73.

    About OCLC

    OCLC is a global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large. We are librarians, technologists, researchers, pioneers, leaders, and learners. With thousands of library members in more than 100 countries, we come together as OCLC to make information more accessible and more useful.

    SOURCE Heirloom Computing

  • February 5th, 2020

    Splice Machine Partners with Heirloom Computing to Modernize Mission-Critical Mainframe Applications

    Partnership enables modernization of legacy applications to cloud-native targets with new data sources and injection of AI and machine learning, without rewriting them

    San Francisco, Calif. – February 5, 2020 – Splice Machine, a provider of a scalable SQL database that enables companies to modernize their legacy and custom applications to be agile, data-rich, and intelligent, today announced a new partnership with Heirloom Computing to enable enterprises to modernize legacy, mission-critical, mainframe applications with Splice Machine’s intelligent SQL database. Businesses will benefit by at least an order of magnitude, from reengineering applications by hand, to refactoring at compiler-speed to an agile Java ecosystem on a modern data platform. In addition, enterprises will gain access to powerful new functionality by running their applications on the Splice Machine platform, such as leveraging real-time and historical data in analytics and injecting AI and machine learning into their applications.

    For decades, mission-critical mainframe applications have anchored the banking, insurance, healthcare, and retail industries, as well as the public sector, all of which require heavy-duty, low latency transaction processing, where downtime would be extremely costly and unacceptable. But mainframe applications are being left behind as businesses strive to transform using distributed computing and public clouds. In large part, this is due to the perception that it’s overwhelming, even impossible, to modernize a mainframe application.

    “The perception that mainframes can’t be modernized is outdated and misguided,” said Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine. “With Heirloom Computing’s cloud-native refactoring solution combined with migration to our scale-out SQL database, the barriers to mainframe modernization are broken down, resulting in reduced costs, increased business agility and entirely new business outcomes through the infusion of AI and machine learning.”

    Heirloom® automatically refactors mainframe applications so they execute on any cloud, while preserving critical business logic, user-interfaces, data integrity, and systems security. Replatforming is a fast and accurate compiler-based approach that delivers strategic value through creation of modern agile applications that utilize an open industry-standard deployment model that is cloud-native.

    “After decades of working with customers to first build – and now refactor – mainframe applications, we have now reached a tipping point where the benefits of refactoring are essentially business-centric and not solely technical,” said Gary Crook, president and CEO of Heirloom Computing. “The partnership with Splice Machine gives those enterprises that have been on the fence about moving off the mainframe yet another compelling reason to act. Splice Machine’s unique combination of scale-out, SQL and in-database machine learning will help breathe new life and intelligence into their prized mainframe applications.”

    Heirloom, in combination with Splice Machine, offers enterprises the fastest way to modernize mainframe applications, enabling them to scale out on commodity hardware and leverage more modern, analytical techniques using an intelligent, SQL platform with in-database AI and machine learning.