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Many companies struggle to keep their System i based applications relevant in today’s market. One option often considered is to move a system i application to a more marketable platform such as Microsoft .NET under SQL Server.

BluePhoenix provides a nearly 100% automated migration of your System i applications and data to the Microsoft .NET platform, utilizing C# or Visual RPG, running against either a SQL Server database or your existing DB2/400 database.  

Main Benefits:

• You provide BluePhoenix your iSeries applications and data and in return receive a running Microsoft .NET/SQL Server application
• Automated migration or full rewrite options
• Reduce the cost and time to market for iSeries based application modernization
• Your new modernized .NET applications allows you to leverage a large base of available and low cost developers

Service-based Offering (or Self-service)

BluePhoenix typically provides this modernization as a turnkey service. You provide us with your System i applications, we return migrated, ready to deploy .NET applications and SQL Server databases. Customers may opt to perform the migration themselves by purchasing the BluePhoenix Monarch™ migration suite, but typically find BluePhoenix services lower cost, faster, and more predictable. During modernization, BluePhoenix:

• Migrates RPG, CL, COBOL, and Synon applications to C# or Visual RPG
• Migrates databases to Microsoft SQL Server
• Modernizes screens to Web pages (or Windows forms)
• Tests the migrated applications and databases
• Deploys the migrated application on production servers, ready to go into production

Additionally, if desired, portions of applications or entire applications can be rewritten manually by BluePhoenix migration specialists, if significant redesign or enhancement is desired by our customers.

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