BrainBlog for BMC by Jason Bloomberg
The decades-long history of the mainframe has centered on the value the platform can provide for mission-critical data and transaction processing tasks.
Today, the mainframe remains the most essential platform for mission-critical operations across the enterprise landscape, despite the ongoing evolution of cloud computing and the rest of the distributed systems world.
Nevertheless, the broader context of business and technology transformation drives change for the platform, as modernizing and optimizing the mainframe in place become critical priorities.
In fact, the business drivers for mainframe transformation are so urgent that mainframe leaders can no longer sit back while the rest of the organization transforms.
Such change is always difficult. Change that rises to the level of transformation can be daunting. Understanding an organization’s motivations for such transformation, therefore, is a critical first step to long-term success.
Within the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sector, seven interrelated mainframe transformation drivers provide the motivation for this change.
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