Accenture and MetaWare team up to reduce Mainframe Application Costs

Accenture and MetaWare provide a high-ROI and simple path for Mainframe Applications to run into more cost effective and agile infrastructures

 

Amsterdam and Paris, 29th May 2009 – Accenture and Metaware team up to help customers reduce their Mainframe Application costs. Accenture will host a full day event to help clients discover how Application Portfolio Optimization can help to reduce mainframe costs, deliver rapid ROI, and drive their IT forward by modernizing, offloading, and re-hosting mainframe applications with MetaWare.

"By assessing current application portfolio and building a roadmap that maximizes the business value from these applications, customers have the opportunity to minimize their TCO," said Marc Carrel-Billiard, Executive Partner at Accenture. "The recent mainframe modernization projects Accenture has delivered with MetaWare have demonstrated that customers can achieve a significant and sustainable reduction in costs while improving organizational performance and business agility".

The Mainframe Migration solutions from MetaWare encompasses language translation, prerelational database conversion and replatforming to quickly, safely, and efficiently leverage strategic applications into Standards-based technology. For more than 15 years, MetaWare has been modernizing over 180 Mainframe for large organizations, resulting in lowered TCO and application costs.

For more information on the event :
Amsterdam
World Trade Center
June 18, 2009
More info and Registrations at www.accenture.nl/acr

About MetaWare

MetaWare is the leading provider of IBM mainframe transformation solutions. Capitalizing on their background of leading more than 180 projects, converted over 400 Millions lines of code and investing 140 man-years into R&D, MetaWare help customers reducing recurring costs and IT infrastructure costs by leveraging modern architecture and technologies to enable the evolution of business-specific mission-critical mainframe components developped and enhanced over the last decades. These are achieved by Modernizing and Transforming the mainframe - source code and/or database In-platform conversion as well as replatforming, with the highest ROI.