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Asysco is now Microsoft’s default Architecture for Unisys mainframe migrations to Azure
November 20, 2020This article describes how Asysco uses their conversion technologies to migrate Unisys mainframe workflows to Azure. The Asysco Automated Migration Technology (AMT) Framewo [...]
Read moreAsysco wins major Mainframe Migration deal with global player in Financial Services
November 19, 2020We are very pleased to announce that Asysco has won a major mainframe migration project with one of the most important financial services entities in the world. The officia [...]
Read moreSouthern Farm Bureau Life Insurance, found the right partner in Asysco, for their IBM mainframe, Ingenium migration
November 17, 2020“I think companies should not get to what I call the ‘tipping point’ and wait too long to move off the mainframe.” Charlie Allen, VP, Chief Technolo [...]
Read moreGleaner Life: modernizing a Micro Focus based policy admin system, now Live on AMT
November 12, 2020We are happy to announce that Gleaner Life (Michigan, USA) is now live on AMT! The migration of their Micro Focus COBOL applications to AMT COBOL started in February 2019. [...]
Read moreOur second remote go-live: an IBM mainframe, Ingenium (DXC) migration
November 11, 2020Overcoming the pandemic environment’s challenges, we are pleased to announce our second remote go-live, an IBM mainframe migration. In addition to our reputable skil [...]
Read moreAMT Technology Roadmap 2020
November 5, 2020Due to Covid-19, the Asysco Technology Conference (ATC), originally scheduled for this month in Chicago, could unfortunately not take place. To inform our customers that de [...]
Read moreCobol: from COVID liability to opportunity
November 3, 2020For many organizations, Cobol, developed in 1959, still fulfills a fundamental role in running transaction-based legacy business applications, despite the various issues th [...]
Read moreAsysco’s first remote Go-Live
October 21, 2020We are proud to announce that, last weekend, we conducted our first (Unisys A-Series) mainframe migration go-live during the pandemic, for a US-based utility company. Up un [...]
Read moreTech investment surges to unprecedented levels due to COVID-19
October 7, 2020According to the 2020 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey, Global companies spent around $15 billion extra a week on technology during the pandemic’s first wave. This was one [...]
Read moreAsysco partner Legacy IT Summit Berlin
September 25, 2020Asysco will participate in the Legacy IT event planned in Berlin and online between the 29th of September and the 1st of October 2020. The Legacy IT event discusses the mos [...]
Read more2020 SIG Benchmark Report: Legacy ends up bottom of the list
September 23, 2020Author Herman Eggink, CCO Asysco Software Improvement Group (SIG) recently published its 2020 Benchmark Report*. On page 10, they [...]
Read more9 Mainframe Statistics That May Surprise You
August 7, 2020Interesting perspective from our CCO, Mr. Herman Eggink: Reading this article the other day: 9 Mainframe Statistics That May Surprise You, https://www.precisely.com/blog/ma [...]
Read moreCloud Migration
July 8, 2020Mainframe to Cloud migration Technology is evolving quickly and is essential for organizations to gain marketshare and improve efficiency. Moving mainframe to Cloud is [...]
Read moreMainframe migration
July 8, 2020About a decade ago, the estimated mainframe install base was in excess of 30,000 installations. Today, there are less than 10,000 left. Some of this decline happened as a r [...]
Read moreThe right partner
July 8, 2020A legacy transformation or modernization process can only be completed with the right partner to guide and assist you along the way. A partner that has the experience, the [...]
Read moreSecurity Management Letter
July 6, 2020Asysco is very happy to announce that Access42, renowned cybersecurity expert, has released its security management letter indicating Asysco has completely mitigated the cr [...]
Read moreATC Chicago 2020 postponed
July 3, 2020At the beginning of the year, we announced that our annual Asysco Technology Conference would be from the 20th to the 22nd of October, in Chicago. Since then, the COVID-19 [...]
Read moreTransform your enterprise into an agile, innovative and future-proof business
May 27, 2020Meet Asysco through our new released overview video. We transition your mainframe to modern cloud platforms, quickly, reliably and cost-effectively, future-proofing your bus [...]
Read moreMainframe and pandemic – how to modernise safely and securely
May 18, 2020Never has it been more important to keep track of your legacy applications. When Covid-19 appeared it changed a lot of things in our lives. For example, schools and workpl [...]
Read moreUSA Government Legacy systems are suffering from Corona virus
April 22, 2020The Coronavirus holds our entire world in a tight grip. Many businesses have shut down, while hundreds of thousands of people are directly affected by the virus, leaving mi [...]
Read moreTransforming an organization’s mainframe application can be risky, but it does not have to be
April 15, 20205 reasons why Asysco is the preferred mainframe modernization partner: Extensive experience in the mainframe migration field Asysco has been around for over 40 years. Ever [...]
Read morePart II: Dealing with the unexpected, TOGETHER, a project delivery perspective
April 14, 2020I promised a 2nd update. I hope you and your family enjoyed the extended Easter Weekend. It was nice to spend quality time with mine and the good weather certainly helped [...]
Read moreThe sky is not the limit, transforming faster and easier from mainframe to cloud
April 9, 2020Although Cloud computing has been around for some time and has been widely adopted, many large organizations do not completely comprehend the benefits and cost savings tha [...]
Read moreDealing with the unexpected, TOGETHER, a project delivery perspective
April 8, 2020My name is Rob Lawrence, Chief Project Officer at Asysco. As part of our knowledge and experience sharing, I want to take you through what we have done over the first two w [...]
Read moreDealing with the unexpected, TOGETHER, a Life Insurance CTO’s perspective
April 8, 2020My name is Charlie Allen, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company located in Jackson, Mississippi. Herman Eggink reached to [...]
Read moreToday, 1st of April 2020, 41 years in business and ….
April 1, 2020…still going strong… [...]
Read moreDealing with the unexpected, TOGETHER
March 25, 2020Over the past couple of weeks, pretty much the entire world has had to change its way of working due to complete lock downs, social distancing or any other measure in place [...]
Read moreSolving the mainframe risks
February 26, 2020Contrary to what people have been claiming for years, the mainframe is still alive. Not from a luxury position but because in most of the cases it is running complex, custo [...]
Read moreThe Texas A&M University System has chosen Asysco and its partner Anubex to migrate its remaining IBM mainframe applications
January 7, 2020We are very happy to announce that The Texas A&M University System has chosen Asysco and its partner Anubex, to migrate its remaining IBM mainframe applications. The [...]
Read moreDigital Business-transformation delivers Vivat growth thanks to the use of powerful new technologies.
December 19, 2019The Asysco mainframe migration project was the first vital step of Vivat towards their goal to create a fully agile organisation. Besides cutting cost, the migration also i [...]
Read moreQuantum computing: entering the Matrix
November 28, 2019In the film the Matrix, the main character Neo is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill by rebel leader Morpheus. In the movie, the red pill represented an u [...]
Read morePlatform economy and the role of the mainframe
November 12, 2019Our economy is going through a revolution, a digital revolution that goes beyond anything we have experienced before. New disruptive technologies are rapidly creating new o [...]
Read moreWhy emulating a mainframe is a 20th-century solution to a 21st-century problem
October 29, 2019Many companies offer solutions aimed at replicating the IBM mainframe ecosystem on x86. Some solutions, previously Platform Solutions Inc (aka PSI, https://www-03.ibm.com/ [...]
Read more6 Major Mainframe Migration Project challenges and how to avoid them
September 20, 2019Interview with migration veteran and Chief Project Officer Rob Lawrence The mainframe is usually at the heart of the business. The mainframes that are still in use today mo [...]
Read moreCIO’s greatest concerns around legacy transformation
September 13, 2019Along with the rise of the digital transformation era the role of the CIO has changed quite a bit over the past years. Along with keeping fully up-to-date with the emerging [...]
Read moreHow to deal with Dark and Dirty data in a legacy migration project
August 28, 2019The amount of data we create every day is mind-blowing. According to a Forbes report of May 2018, at that time the daily amount of data was 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, a [...]
Read moreModern Woodmen: Mainframe Migration lessons learned and key advice
August 16, 2019Modern Woodmen of America is one of the largest fraternal benefit societies in the United States, with more than 750,000 members. Total assets reached $16.17 billion in 201 [...]
Read more‘Keep the lights on’ strategy and the death of Digital transformation
July 17, 2019It is kind of old news that companies that invest in IT transformation are more successful, innovative and more agile. However, although 80% of IT decision makers are well a [...]
Read moreIT migration: Trading old for new
June 7, 2019Businesses have been run on computers since the 1970s. It is no wonder then that businesses that help firms move from so-called ‘legacy’ systems, to newer, more efficien [...]
Read moreTrust, key to success in legacy transformation projects
June 4, 2019The human factor Trust, key to success in legacy transformation projects! Trust is hard to gain but easy to lose. Trust is the key concept that makes or breaks a legacy tra [...]
Read moreSoftware programmers; shoemaker’s children with holes in their shoes?
May 31, 2019On O’Reilly.com Mike Loukides wrote an article about the next generation of programming tools commenting on a Quora post written by Alan Kay. In his article Loukides [...]
Read moreStatens tjänstepensionsverk (SPV) has selected Asysco and Fujitsu to migrate its IBM mainframe
May 24, 2019We are very happy to announce that Statens tjänstepensionsverk (SPV), the Swedish National Government Employee Pensions Board, has selected Asysco and Fujitsu to migrate it [...]
Read moreSPB’s Financial Flow Management successfully went live on Asysco’s AMT LION
May 23, 2019SPB is the European leader in affinity insurance and services with over 50 million customers and offices in 17 countries. Their headquarters are in Le Havre, France. The com [...]
Read moreInto the DARQ
May 17, 2019In Accenture’s annual tech trend report: Technology vision of 2019, new technologies are described that are catalysts for change in the post-digital era. These are Distri [...]
Read moreProcess leading in digital transformation era
May 10, 2019In the years to come digital transformation will remain a key focus. According to the IDC Worldwide semiannual digital transformation spending guide, worldwide digital tran [...]
Read moreEuropean Technology Strategy
May 7, 2019There must be a European technology strategy, says the Dutch political party D66 in the Dutch newspaper ‘het Financieel Dagblad’. European tech companies must be able t [...]
Read moreCode Crankers of the 21st Century
April 15, 2019As modern technology evolves there’s ever more code out there. Informationisbeautiful.net recently published an interesting graph about the number of lines of code it [...]
Read moreBanca del Ceresio has gone live on AMT LION
April 9, 2019October 2017, during the Asysco Technology Conference in Alkmaar, Banca del Ceresio SA decided to move forward with a migration of their Unisys Libra system to Asysco’s A [...]
Read moreA complex mainframe migration can also be fun….
April 2, 2019The video interview below, “Between two Ferns euh Farms”, is with Stephen Agostinelli (PMO) of Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company (SFBLI) and the Asysco Chief P [...]
Read moreBe competitive, embrace IT Transformation
March 27, 2019More than 80% of IT decision-makers say if they don’t embrace IT Transformation, their companies won’t be competitive. They must deploy infrastructure solutions t [...]
Read moreThe Trump administration recognises how legacy is impeding innovation.
March 26, 2019The Trump administration recognises how legacy is impeding innovation. Not just impede. More like downright obstruct. Recently US president Donald Trump’s administration r [...]
Read moreStop flushing billions down the drain
March 21, 2019How to prevent money-wasting Government IT failures Over the last decade, legacy modernization has become a hot topic for government IT organizations. In this era of digita [...]
Read moreThe mainframe to C# migration made Swedish Transport Agency’s mainframe system future proof
February 21, 2019Interview Swedish Transport Agency taken during the Asysco Technology Conference in New York 2018 “When we searched for a suitable partner for our migration project back [...]
Read moreMature Nordic industry players lead digital transformation journey
February 15, 2019Over the last few years we’ve been told that tech disruptors displace established technologies and shake up industries, changing end-user experience by introducing gr [...]
Read moreStrategic decision SFBLI to move away from COBOL to .NET
February 5, 2019Interview Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance (SFBLI) taken during the annual Asysco Technology Conference in New York, October 2018. “We have been a mainframe shop fo [...]
Read moreGleaner Life Insurance Society contracts Asysco
January 9, 2019We are very pleased to announce that Gleaner Life Insurance Society (Michigan, USA) has become an Asysco customer. Gleaner is a fraternal life insurance company and partic [...]
Read moreThe deceiving appearances of a lift & shift migration
December 14, 2018Trying to fit old furniture in a new house As IT budget are limited, IT organizations always try to get maximum value from its projects. In that respect, simply lifting-and [...]
Read moreAsysco’s Dun & Bradstreet Evaluation
November 22, 2018Asysco recently scored a very high 96 out of 100 in the Open Ratings past performance evaluation, putting Asysco in the top quintile in our industry. The score was based on [...]
Read moreWho’s right about the future of mainframe?
November 19, 2018Who’s right about the future of mainframe? With the new Z14 series IBM continues to strongly focus on mainframe. They are certain that mainframe is not only here to stay [...]
Read moreThe competitive ‘edge’
October 29, 2018The competitive ‘edge’ The unstoppable growth of IoT will lead to severe ‘traffic’ challenges. The huge amount of data produced by network devices w [...]
Read moreCBBS has successfully gone live
October 18, 2018Dutch payroll processor CBBS has successfully gone live today with its migrated system. CBBS migrated, with the help of Asysco and its AMT solution, from Micro Focus COBOL [...]
Read moreBye Bye mainframe
October 5, 2018Bye Bye mainframe Report of a cut-over weekend A little background This project encompassed a migration from an OS 2200 COBOL application of over 5 million lines of code, 3 [...]
Read more10 Tips for a smooth mainframe migration project
September 4, 2018Over the years, many of our customers have gone through large, complex and challenging mainframe migration projects. All of which have successfully been completed. OTP Bank [...]
Read moreL’assureur français SPB fait ses adieux au Serveur Central Unisys et passe au nuage Azure avec la solution Asysco
September 3, 2018SPB, leader européen d’assurance affinitaire et de services, a choisi Asysco pour migrer de leur serveur central Unisys et pour déployer complètement le système migré [...]
Read moreImpression Modernization and Migration Event
August 17, 2018Six months after the Go-Live Modern Woodmen of America (MWA) & Asysco shared their success story of the MWA’s Unisys OS2200 mainframe to Windows migration using Asysco [...]
Read moreHow reliable are tech prophecies?
August 6, 2018Already for ages predictions of our technological future have been made. Many did not come true but there were also many that were stunningly accurate. Below we have listed [...]
Read moreAsysco speaks at Microsoft Inspire – Las Vegas
July 12, 2018Asysco will take part as a speaker at the Microsoft Inspire in Las Vegas, Nevada, Microsoft’s biggest partner event of the year, where the world will meet to transform [...]
Read moreModern Woodmen of America successfully live after mainframe migration
June 1, 2018Over the weekend of 2-4 February 2018, Modern Woodmen went live after successfully migrating their OS2200 mainframe to a distributed server environment using Asysco Migratio [...]
Read moreDevOps on the rise; majority of organizations are implementing
March 13, 2018According to Forrester’s 2017 Q1 Global DevOps Benchmark Online Survey, 50% of organizations are implementing DevOps, while 13% have already implemented it and anothe [...]
Read moreComputable: VIVAT parts with mainframe
February 9, 2018A painless migration With the help of Asysco and TCS, insurance group VIVAT, located in Amstelveen and Alkmaar, the Netherlands, migrated its obsolete Unisys mainframe to a [...]
Read moreDisruption in insurance: not a matter of ‘if’ but a matter of ‘when’
January 29, 2018In an interview on the digital insurance agenda, AXA Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer Amelie Oudea Castera talks about the challenges of delivering the Dig [...]
Read moreTechnology trends 2018 and the impact of legacy
January 5, 20182017 marked the start of a true digital transformation, which will further expand and materialize in 2018. According to several trend-watchers around the world, these are t [...]
Read moreSwiss Bank trusts Asysco: New Life for Banca Del Ceresio’s Unisys Legacy
October 16, 2017NEW LIFE for BANCA DEL CERESIO’s UNISYS LEGACY Banca del Ceresio has decided to move forward with a migration of their Unisys Libra mainframe system to Asysco’s AMT LIO [...]
Read moreComputable: Asysco helps insurer with mainframe migration
October 5, 2017Insurer VIVAT successfully completed the migration of a Unisys Libra mainframe to a Microsoft SQL environment. This migration enables VIVAT to implement future innovations [...]
Read moreGartner: datacenter growth negatively impacts server market
September 25, 2017According to Gartner, the data center system segment is expected to grow by 0.3 percent in 2017. While this is up from negative growth in 2016, the segment is experiencing a [...]
Read moreConsequenses of the Micro Focus HPE reverse takeover
September 12, 2017Author: Herman Eggink, CCO Asysco Let’s say you’ve chosen your “flavor” of Micro Focus COBOL and you’re currently enjoyin [...]
Read moreThe best of both worlds
August 4, 2017Cobol has been declared dead numerous times over the last decade but is still alive and kicking. Something that cannot be said about the Cobol workforce. Every day, about 1 [...]
Read moreTop 5 retail trends 2017 – 2018
July 17, 2017Top 5 retail trends 2017-2018 Flexible stores The number of traditional stores is decreasing but there’s an increase in non-traditional concepts like pop-up-stores and m [...]
Read moreLegacy system modernization key in accomplishing Digital Government
July 13, 2017Governments worldwide still heavily depend on legacy technology. In fact, approximately three-quarters of all IT related budgets are spent on keeping legacy technology runni [...]
Read moreLegacy systems & the Internet of Things
June 9, 2017Are you ready to jump on the IoT train? Internet of Things (IoT) is the next megatrend. The 1990s’ fixed internet wave connected 1 billion users while the 2000s’ mobile [...]
Read moreBridging the gap with Legacy Modernization
May 29, 2017Contrary to what we thought, cost is typically not the main driver for modernizing Legacy systems. Surely, it is costly to run and maintain a mainframe environment. The una [...]
Read moreTruly remarkable customers
March 27, 2017In our 38 years of existence, we have had the honor to work with many great customers. Organizations that strive to not only make a profit but who actively contribute to ma [...]
Read moreSave cost, gain agility
February 8, 2017On average, a company spends between 60% and 80% of the IT budget on maintaining existing systems instead of on new developments. Half of these costs are related to the tim [...]
Read moreNo place for legacy systems in Insurtech
January 11, 2017The insurance landscape has changed drastically over the last few years. As Insurance thought leader Matteo Carbone states in his article: ‘The future of insurance is [...]
Read moreFacing the legacy challenge
August 31, 2016When your system has always served your critical business processes and helped to build a firm market position it can be hard to refer to it as legacy, a word that feels c [...]
Read moreOTP Croatia secures future for its core banking through Asysco migration
July 13, 2016Asysco today announced that it has successfully completed the legacy transformation project at OTP Banka Hrvatska (OBH), Croatia (part of the Hungarian OTP Group). The proj [...]
Read moreLegacy transformation in InsurTech: dealing with legacy without losing business
July 7, 2016Many insurance companies still run their core administration applications on legacy systems. Everything that could easily be replaced, has been replaced. What’s left are [...]
Read moreSuccesful go-live at University of the Western Cape
June 24, 2016The University of the Western Cape (Capetown, South Africa) leaves an outdated legacy environment behind and embraces a future-proof solution The scope of the project was th [...]
Read moreWin IT together
May 13, 2016A Legacy Transformation project as the perfect catalyst for leveraging DevOps By Jayson B. Goldman As an IT Leader, you may be responsible for a house divided when it comes [...]
Read moreAre you better off staying with your mainframe?
March 25, 2016It’s been running your mission critical systems for 15+ years (maybe 30+…) but now may be the time to consider your options. With the amount of time and effort invested [...]
Read moreComputable: Legacy systems are a business risk
March 7, 2016Swedish Transport Agency says farewell to Unisys mainframe after forty years Computable NL – Rik Sanders For over forty years the Swedish Transport Agency (STA [...]
Read moreSwedish Transport Agency is modernizing its mainframe environment
January 29, 2016Together with Fujitsu Sweden, Asysco is currently implementing an IT environment modernization project with the Swedish Transport Agency. This is one of the largest moder [...]
Read moreComputable: “Asysco: Investing in Legacy is pointless”.
January 11, 2016Article in Dutch IT Magazine Computable about the legacy dilemma, mainframe alternatives and the open door to new technology. Most Cobol is connected to mainframe and Unix [...]
Read moreComputable: “Asysco sees growth in migration IBM mainframes”.
January 11, 2016Article in Dutch IT magazine Computable about legacy transformation and Asysco’s move to IBM mainframe migrations. Migration specialist Asysco from Coevorden, the Netherla [...]
Read morePreventing mainframe migration nightmares
December 31, 2015Alarming news about major mainframe legacy IT migration failures has featured regularly in the world’s media recently. Migrating mission-critical applications from mainfr [...]
Read moreReal Time
November 17, 2015Legacy Transformation helps Retail companies keep up with new technologies “Keeping aging legacy retail systems running, especially when they’re locked into [...]
Read moreIs it ‘Migration’, ‘Modernization’ or ‘Transformation’ when it comes to addressing Legacy Systems?
November 17, 2015Spending time discussing solutions for Legacy Systems often involves using a lingo where certain words may not mean the same thing to different people. One example is that [...]
Read moreViewpoint article OnWindows magazine: Unlocking value from legacy systems
October 28, 2015Legacy transformation rather than simply re-platforming In the October edition of OnWindows, Microsoft’s quarterly enterprise customer magazine, Asysco CCO Herman Egg [...]
Read moreThe future of COBOL
October 21, 2015Action time! When developing your future plans, it is a good idea to take a close look at your current COBOL applications and consider the following: Today COBOL has an out [...]
Read moreURBIS LINC package migration for OTP Group
October 21, 2015In close cooperation with their partner Jetsol, Asysco has won a large migration project with OTP Banka Hrvatska (OBH), Croatia. As part of a major effort, aligning with an [...]
Read moreAsysco launches AMT COBOL
October 8, 2015Asysco has added a new common business-oriented language (AMT COBOL) transformation engine to its Asysco AMT Framework for legacy migration and transformation. AMT COBO [...]
Read moreWhy government agencies benefit from transforming legacy
September 16, 2015Many government agencies are still bound to legacy systems. Systems that hold them back, make it difficult for them to embrace new technologies. At the same time, their COB [...]
Read moreMainframe and the Internet of Things
March 10, 2015Are you ready to jump on the IoT train? A recent report of Goldman Sachs Group states that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next megatrend. The 1990s’ fixed internet w [...]
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