From the Information Technology Management Reform Act (ITMRA) ,"...the term 'information technology architecture', (ITA) with respect to an executive agency, means an integrated framework for evolving or maintaining existing information technology and acquiring new information technology to achieve the agency's strategic goals and information resources management goals."

The first part of this definition, "evolving or maintaining existing information technology", begs the question, how do we best do that? This question is being asked ever more frequently, particularly by those companies and government agencies with deteriorating mainframe hardware and increasingly un-maintainable software. Some IT managers delay modernization decisions hoping for a silver bullet.

These IT managers want it all!

QUESTION: "Why can't someone use automated technology to modernize legacy software assets?"

ANSWER: "They can and they have!"

In 2001 The National Endowment For The Arts (NEA) required the modernization of three financial management systems. These 27-year old legacy applications were written in Wang VS COBOL, ran on a WANG VS Operating System, and used a WANG VS DMS database. These applications were modernized using fully automated tools.

NEA Testimonial

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