Survey Surfaces Depth Of Mainframe Application Migration Challenges
DevOps.com, Friday, October 4th, 2024
A global survey of 309 decision-makers responsible for modernizing mainframe applications finds that while 69% of respondents said the initiatives are either very or extremely important for enabling their organizations to achieve their business objectives, only 18% of the budget allocated for these projects is being used to specifically modernize or rewrite those applications.
Conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Rocket Software, more than half of respondents (51%) report their organization has, following multiple failures, attempted at least six rewrite projects.
The survey also notes that only 17% are focused on transforming applications on the mainframe by implementing and exploiting the most modern features available on the platform.