Application rationalization is the practice of scoring every application a business runs on value, technical condition, risk and cost, then assigning each one a disposition: keep, modernize, replace or retire.
Key takeaways Refactoring means behavior stays the same. The only proof is tests that passed before the change and pass after it. AI is strongest at mechanical, local changes and
Key takeaways A database is more than tables. Stored procedures, triggers, jobs, reports and downstream feeds all carry business logic that has to move or be replaced. Pick the target
Key takeaways The expensive part of a mainframe program was never the code. It was reading an estate nobody has fully understood in twenty years, and that is the part
AI-assisted COBOL modernization is the use of large language models to read, summarize, and help rewrite a COBOL estate: understanding what the code does, pulling out the rules buried in
