Organizations have various options for modernizing their mainframe applications. There’s re-engineering, which involves re-writing the applications; there’s replacement, when the applications are substituted with commercial packages: there’s retirement, when entire processes are eliminated and consequently so are the underlying applications.

And then there’s re-hosting, which is the strategy that the Cedacri Group, an Italian provider of outsourcing solutions, used to modernize its clients' mainframe applications.

Watch this brief video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience  to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success.