**MODFRAME, Storm Reply's mainframe modernization, leverages accelerators to drive decisions and break down the challenge by functionality **

With the rise of digital native neo banks, traditional financial services companies are striving to offer customers the same features and service. Reliance on mainframe applications will hamper time to market, agility and even innovation. In today's, world finding a new graduate with COBOL skills is unlikely, with only a handful of universities still teaching the fifty year old programming language . This in turn is making it difficult to both recruit skills for regular mainframe maintenance and attract new talent into the IT organization. Whilst mainframe seems to be the pinnacle challenge for modernization, financial services companies need to address it before it's an irresolvable problem and cost to the business.

To help client's understand their choices in solutions and how to proceed with modernizing their Mainframe Storm Reply have developed a phased approach which follows AWS's Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) 2.0 in three phases. First phase accelerator assessment details -

TIMELINE: 6 weeks COST: Fixed price

OUTCOMES:

• Existing workload(s) analyzed
• Migration solution options defined and costed
• Workload migration plan**