Legacy applications continue to service organizations and drive strategic business processes within these organizations on a day to day basis. These organizations face the need to respond to on-going changes in the business environment and ensure that legacy applications are adapted to ever changing business needs. The end user community is continually demanding that IT reduce the response times to their requests. IT is looking to meet the end users demand and as such to find ways to enhance application agility.

The ability to replace the legacy application is impacted by the availability of 'off-the-shelf' mission critical replacement alternatives – on the one hand – and the high risks and costs associated with new application development – on the other hand. Even the lower-risk, lower-cost option of migration is sometimes not appropriate for some companies in a certain point of time. Alternatively the organization faces spiraling costs related to ongoing maintenance due to lack of resources and skills shortages.

Application renovation and maintenance has a compelling story to tell when it comes to costs. MOST application renovation and maintenance services are there to bridge the gap and enhance the return that organizations derive from their past investments in legacy applications. MOST services have time and again served to extend the life of these applications within the organization and helped with driving down the costs of ongoing renovation and maintenance.

MOST is a company with a significant footprint in the IBM Mainframe application environment – a marketplace in which MOST has been involved for many years and continues to serve customers with legacy application needs. As such MOST is in a unique position to assist IT organizations meet their ongoing application enhancement and maintenance needs.

MOST in house developed tools have assisted in successfully delivering a wide variety of renovation assignments including but not limited to code migration, rules extraction, application consolidation, field expansion and layer separation.

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