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Analyst Reports

March 2007

Banking IT Service Provider Migrates Its Workload From Its Mainframe
"Many organizations have problems with their applicatio portfolios and infrastructures. The three most common issues are the total cost of ownership (TCO) of legacy platforms, the need to shift from legacy skills to new ones and difficulty responding to business demands in a timely fashion..."

December 2006

Best Practices for Mainframe Migrations
Organizations planning to migrate workloads off the mainframe must plan for the impact of architectural differences on people, technology and processes. Best practices recognize the complexity and power of the installed environment.

December 2006

The Business and Technical Drivers of Mainframe Modernization
Technology advances, business drivers and generational shifts in skills are pushing organizations to consider a mainframe modernization strategy. Excluding Y2K efforts, real action was sporadic during the last decade. There is a growing interest in mainframe modernization strategies.

November 2006

The Mainframe Migration Ecosystem Is Growing
Trouble may be brewing for IBM: A growing ecosystem of vendors is focusing on mainframe migrations. Many large hardware, software and service providers, as well as niche tool and service vendors, see opportunity in this market.

January 2006

Got Legacy? Migration Options For Applications
Although firms are vocal in their dissatisfaction of it, legacy technology continues to run core business functions for medium, large, and Global 2000 companies. Migration can mitigate many of these firms’ issues.

August 2005

Pre-Relational Mainframe DBMS Market Continues to Decline
The useful life of pre-relational mainframe database management system engines is coming to an end because of a diminishing application and skills base, and increasing costs. Develop a five-year plan, at minimum, to migrate to other DBMS engines.

August 2005

Gartner released the following report, Pre-Relational Mainframe DBMS Market Continues to Decline, in which BluePhoenix was listed as a vendor offering migration services. Gartner highly recommends that enterprises running on pre-relational mainframe databases should "Develop a five-year plan, at minimum, to migrate to other DBMS engines."

April 2004

Forrester released a Market Overview titled Application Portfolio Management Tools in which BluePhoenix was named as one of the three leading companies for an APM solution.

Read the Wall Street & Technology online article on this report here.

February 2004

The Butler Group released a Technology Audit Report on BluePhoenix™ IT Discovery

March 2003

Gartner released a report titled, "Legacy Modernization Provides Applications for Tomorrow," in which BluePhoenix/Crystal was listed in Gartner's Leaders quadrant.