BluePhoenix Solutions Featured in 21st Century Business Television Series
In today’s highly competitive environment, enterprises face one common problem – how do you address the ongoing costs of legacy maintenance and gain the ability to quickly adapt to new and ongoing business requirements?
For many, the answer is Legacy Modernization.
View the 21st Century Business Interview with Len Erlikh, Chief Technical Officer of BluePhoenix
BluePhoenix Solutions at CeBIT
At the recent CeBIT event in Hanover, Germany, BluePhoenix participated with a partner kiosk at the main IBM stand. In this short IBM partner interview (in German), Dr. R. Wetzel from BluePhoenix shares his views and impressions of this year’s CeBIT event. To view this interview please click here.
Solving the Legacy Dilemma
Listen to this Executive Podcast interview by Business Trends Quarterly (BTQ) magazine. BluePhoenix CTO, Len Erlikh and Jamie Devereaux, managing editor of BTQ, will talk about legacy IT modernization—how it can provide true value to organizations that are looking to balance near-term budget reductions with the need to building a foundation for long-term business growth.
Legacy Modernization: Escape to the Virtual Worlds
by Len Erlikh, CTO, BluePhoenix Solutions
With all the focus on legacy modernization techniques, approaches, and alternatives, we often miss a key point: What kind of modern system are we really trying to build and what is our goal? To loosely paraphrase a classical line from Alice in Wonderland: “If you don’t know where you’re going, it really doesn’t matter how you get there.” In the long run, modernized systems that are founded on a solid hardware/software architectural platform with streamlined total cost of ownership (TCO) will determine the true success of your legacy modernization initiatives.
Recently, budget-minded IT organizations have begun aggressively looking at virtualization as the platform of choice to build systems with an optimal TCO profile. What is virtualization anyway and, more to the point, can it be considered as the destination of choice for your legacy modernization initiatives?
Legacy Modernization: Tight Budgets, Right Choices
by Len Erlikh, CTO, BluePhoenix Solutions
The full force of the financial crisis is squarely upon us. This year, very few IT organizations managed to avoid a multitude of project cuts and cost reduction initiatives. More than at any other time in this industry’s history, budgetary constraints were the primary drivers in shaping CIOs’ agendas for setting both short- and long-term organizational priorities. Throughout the industry, the feeling persists that this relentless budget squeeze is making our IT organizations weaker and is negatively impacting our ability to properly address the full spectrum of enterprise computing needs.
Outsourcing in Times of Financial Crisis: Is Your Team in or Out?
by Len Erlikh, CTO, BluePhoenix Solutions
With the financial crisis in full force and unemployment rates rapidly approaching double digits, the moral dilemma of outsourcing — home team loyalty vs. economic benefit — again takes center stage. The sluggish economy and a continuous search for cost savings are driving an increasing share of IT budgets to offshore outsourcing. In 2008, Indian outsourcers alone delivered billions of dollars worth of IT services while the growing number of offshore outsourcing providers in Russia, China, and a dozen more aspiring contenders are joining in the quest for a share of the global IT labor market.
BusinessWeek.com: “An Interesting Company”
Regular Inside Wall Street columnist, Gene Marcial, presents his views about BluePhoenix during an online interview. He reports that the company has very effective technology that can be used to dramatically reduce IT operating costs by “migrating IT units to lower cost structure software and hardware architecture.”
BluePhoenix Sets 2008 Bar at 20 Percent Growth as Q2 Numbers Come In
Legacy application modernization tool vendor BluePhoenix Solutions, a mainframe specialist that got into the midrange when it acquired ASNA last year, reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2008 and at the same time says that it expects business to be good through the rest of 2008, now that it has sold off its stake in Mainsoft.
New President Onboard at BluePhoenix
BluePhoenix Solutions has hired Yaron Tchwella as president of the application migration, rehosting, and renewal company. Tchwella is a 25-year veteran of the high technology industry with experience managing global organizations.
BluePhoenix Says Business Is Steady, Sells Mainsoft Stake
Legacy application modernization tool maker BluePhoenix Solutions is getting ready to report its financial results for the second quarter of 2008, and as is the tradition for public companies, BluePhoenix put out a statement going over preliminary results in conjunction with a big announcement that it was looking to sell its stake in Mainsoft, a maker of .NET and Java tools. The preliminary report was designed to calm down a jittery Wall Street.
BluePhoenix and Cicero Sign Partnership Agreement
Under the partnering agreement, BluePhoenix will include Cicero as part of its legacy modernization toolset. Cicero allows companies working on legacy modernization projects to further extend the benefits to the end user desktop. Using Cicero, customers can rapidly modernize the desktop in order to meet business requirements and IT needs by non-invasively integrating applications and services into a unified desktop. Cicero's desktop integration framework also allows organizations to reuse existing application objects and services to create new applications, extend the functionality of existing applications and automate workflow and processes.
BluePhoenix Assists with Cobol Migrations
Older Cobol compilers are no longer supported for DB2 V8 and CICS TS V3.1. ... Only the Cobol LE runtime is supported for these environments. DB2 V8 only supports Enterprise Cobol V3.4 and starting with CICS TS V3.1, transactions compiled with OS/VS Cobol or earlier must be converted and re-compiled to an LE environment.
Services a Priority at ASNA after Merger with BluePhoenix
When mainframe application modernization/migration software vendor BluePhoenix Solutions decided to expand to the IBM OS/400 and i5/OS market, it found a willing partner in ASNA, a company with more than 25 years in the midrange. For BluePhoenix, which announced the completion of the ASNA merger August 17, it gains RPG-to.NET technology, a trusted brand, an experienced workforce, and a base of customers from which it can work. The upside for ASNA is much deeper pockets with which to build the services side of its business.
450,000-Line RPG App Converted to .NET in Six Months
When the StoneEagle Group set out to transform the character-based user interface of its green-screen enterprise application to a modern browser user interface, the company knew what was needed and it knew a two-year rewrite project was an unacceptable price to pay. After selecting ASNA's Monarch for the project, StoneEagle ultimately got where it needed to go, and the trip was completed in just six months--a schedule that demonstrated this software company is on top of its game.
Moving IT Forward
Forbes.com Interview: The financial industry is making the most use of IT modernization, says BluePhoenix Solutions CEO Arik Kilman.
BluePhoenix Modernizes Israeli Data Processing Center
"The $2.25-million modernization project is a component of LADPC's $6.7-million service bureau upgrade undertaken at its service bureau and its municipalities. The LADPC provides IT services to more than 250 of Israel's municipal authorities, serving more than 5,000 users..."