Owens & Minor needed to modernize its existing, business-critical enterprise systems while retaining unique business logic. Maintaining the competitive advantage embedded in this business logic while reducing costs to enable re-investment in customer-led improvements was imperative. >>

Increased market challenges from new and old competitors meant that IMP had to look for new ways to innovate its business, while at the same time reducing IT management costs. Improvements in operational efficiency were necessary in order to deliver new capabilities faster, and to support business growth. >>

Modernizing existing mainframe enterprise applications has provided thousands of organizations with the agility necessary to enable business transformation and achieve significant growth and competitive differentiation. This paper examines three proven mainframe application modernization strategies and the business imperative in considering them. >>