Clerity Helps ‘MMAP’ the Future of Mainframe Modernization 
Clerity Solutions is helping clients assess their mainframe migration and modernization projects, and decide on the best architectures for their next-wave mainframe operations. The latest Clerity Migration and Modernization Assessment Process (MMAP) user is a Latin American securities exchange firm.
Clerity Solutions conducted a mainframe migration and modernization assessment project for a leading securities exchange in Latin America looking at options for running its post-trade transaction settlement application.
Clerity’s Migration and Modernization Assessment Process (MMAP) provided the client a detailed analysis of their existing mainframe assets, and recommended migration and modernization strategies, according to Clerity COO Cameron Jenkins.
Clerity MMAP reviews “all architectural assets, including applications, data, and operations with a unique platform-neutral approach.”
Cameron Jenkins
COO
Clerity Solutions
Clerity MMAP analyzes business and technical implications of migration scenarios “by looking at all architectural assets, including applications, data, and operations with a unique platform-neutral approach,” Jenkins said in a statement. For this Latin American client, Clerity experts performed a detailed study of its Adabas Natural and Assembler-based mainframe applications.
Clerity’s MMAP team’s tasks included:
- Used the Clerity Natural Analysis Suite, an automated tool that looks at 27 key metrics of Natural code, to document application interdependencies and overall complexity.
- Performed an application integration and interoperability analysis, included third-party tools and related components such as Software AG’s webMethods, EntireX, and Information Builders’ iWay.
- Assessed the current 700 MIPS infrastructure and delivered a potential final design.
- Outlined a testing policy and plan.
- Delivered a detailed migration project design incorporating resource planning requirements.
At the conclusion of the MMAP project, Clerity provided the exchange with information about the technologies it could use to migrate its legacy mainframe system and related infrastructure utilities onto open systems to help it meet its business objectives.
