SPAN has been a solution provider in IBM Mainframe for over ten years in Banking and Healthcare industry.At SPAN, we focus on delivering value to the customers with well defined and proven models in Legacy Application Development and Maintenance. SPAN has innate experience in providing architecture based approach to the customers' requirement for Migration & Modernization services from Mainframe to any web based application with strong focus on analysis and planning phases.

The Mainframe practice at SPAN provides ADM and Migration Services with strategic focus on technology rationalization while maintaining business continuity:

 

Application Development and Maintenance

SPAN provides Legacy Application Development and Maintenance services for mainframe applications:
  • Using either Iterative development approach or an Agile methodology with well defined scrum cycles.
  • Comprehensive system study by documenting processes and procedures for applications having minimal or no documentations
  • Usage of competent technologies/tools and methodologies

 

Migration & Modernization Services

SPAN has successfully re-engineered mainframe applications to .Net by building the business processes from existing legacy code with no documentation available for the existing system. This was achieved by:
  • Application and database migration based on customers business criticality and technical challenges
  • Complete re-engineering using new technology platform along with migration of data
  • Hybrid approach where some part of the legacy application (like UI) is retained and other parts (like data processing) are moved to a new platform and technology
  • Technical evaluation for suitable architectural framework and provide best possible solution for architecture and re-design of the application
  • Increase agility, reduce cost and comply changes

 

Web enabling

SPAN has web-Enabled the mainframe applications that helped the customers to leverage existing systems by providing rich user interface. Web-enabling is done by
  • Screen scraping of the CICS/IMS DC applications
  • Using Connector that triggers the mainframe system from the web applications

Tools and Technologies

mainframe tools

 

Achievements

  • Sourced high volume files of fixed and variable formats in to relational database
  • Automated consolidation, standardization, conversion of codepages, transformations and scheduled loading of data into new DB schemas
  • Automation of data loads using ETL tools and database procedures retaining data quality with improved efficiency
  • Built intermediate J2EE integration solution to eliminate manual processing
  • Automate workflows with re-engineered solution for web portal to reduce cost and time
  • Helped the customers by evaluating the system for database performance tuning using tools like Platinum
  • Built dynamic queries using FOCUS/Web Focus to enable the MIS dept measure the performance of various business units and cost centers of a Bank
  • Development of tools to improve productivity and quality by automation of code and data review

Overview

  • Our aim is to add sustaining value or create break- through value for clients in the form
    of new revenue and more profit.