Unlocking innovation: Reimagining mainframe applications with gen AI (MAM113)

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The Business Case for Mainframe Modernization

  • Gartner states that organizations that start Mainframe modernization by 2027 will spend 50% less on Mainframe IT operations compared to peers who haven't started their journey.
  • Key drivers for Mainframe modernization:
    • High costs of maintaining Mainframe hardware and software
    • Increasing risks of the aging workforce managing these applications
    • Technical debt of the legacy applications
    • The most important factor is driving business innovation and agility.

Industries Undergoing Mainframe Modernization

  • Financial services: Changing customer interactions and experiences.
  • Automotive: Transition to electric vehicles and personalized experiences.
  • Travel and tourism: Changing reservation and check-in processes.

Mainframe Modernization Approaches

  • Rehost, retain, and retire: Optimize the Mainframe or rehost it in third-party data centers.
  • Integrate around the Mainframe: Build APIs, integrate with web/mobile, and extract data for cloud-based solutions.
  • Refactor, re-platform, and reimagine: Fully modernize and exit the Mainframe.

The Reimagine Approach

  • Reimagine involves completely rethinking the business experiences and operations, not just the technology stack.
  • It introduces the most change to both the business and technology.
  • Requires end-to-end automation to manage the complexity and risk.

Accelerating Mainframe Modernization with Gen

  • The 3D model: Discover the current state, design the future state, and deliver, validate, and run.
  • Foundational models and LLMs provide the building blocks, but specialized agents are needed.
  • The agentic framework orchestrates the end-to-end modernization process.

Marriott's Digital Transformation Journey

  • Marriott's history and evolution of their technology architecture.
  • Mainframe footprint and scale at Marriott.
  • Marriott's approach to their Mainframe modernization journey:
    • Discovery phase: Defining the business and technology vision.
    • Architecture and design phase: Platform-based approach and automation.
    • Execution phase: Scaled Agile, MVP-based, and embracing Gen.
  • Marriott's target state architecture and use of Gen.
  • Learnings from Marriott's transformation journey.

AWS Mainframe Modernization Offerings

  • AWS's history of innovating for Mainframe customers.
  • The three pillars: Technology, people, and processes.
  • AWS's ecosystem of Gen services and tools to accelerate Mainframe modernization.

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