Pioneering Mainframe Modernization

Enterprises today face a familiar yet escalating dilemma: legacy mainframes and aging distributed databases foundational in earlier digital eras are now a barrier, dragging on agility, inflating costs, and increasing operational risk as skilled professionals retire and systems become increasingly opaque. Customers expect digital responsiveness and scale, yet legacy systems often stand in direct opposition to that agility.

Against this backdrop, modernization is now a strategic enterprise evolution. Leaders must transcend simplistic lift and shift approaches and instead develop intelligent, resilient, cloud native systems that preserve business logic while delivering future-ready flexibility. That’s precisely where mLogica and Coforge unite to deliver transformative outcomes.

mLogica's LIBER*M suite brings real automation to modernization. Through AI/ML-enabled Business Logic Extraction (BLE) Intelligence, it automates code analysis, documentation of complex dependencies, and generation of accurate business rule models. Modules like LIBER*DAHLIA for application portfolio discovery and LIBER*TULIP for refactoring languages, including COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Easytrieve, and more, enable transformation into modern languages such as Java, C++, or C#. This dramatically reduces migration risk, accelerates delivery cycles, and ensures continuity of critical business logic. The suite also generates test cases and automates data migration, yielding faster, safer, and more predictable modernization.

Complementing this, STAR*M Distributed Workload Modernization offers full-stack automation to migrate legacy database workloads, outdated platforms including SQL Server, Db2, Teradata, Netezza, Informix to modern, cloud-ready targets like PostgreSQL or Oracle. Powered by GenAI, STAR*M ensures precision and repeatability at scale, slashing both manual errors and migration timelines significantly.

While mLogica focuses on modernization technology, Coforge powers execution, leveraging its AI infused advisory and modernization frameworks to bring those technologies to life across large, complex enterprise environments. Coforge delivers:

• Portfolio assessments and rationalization using Gen AI reverse engineering tools (e.g., CodeInsightAI in combination with Pega Blueprint to automate design) to extract business requirements and generate modernization blueprints.
• Incremental, in-place modernization using homogeneous stacks to reduce complexity and license costs, enabling transformation without disruptive rip-and-replace.
• Cloud adoption acceleration through AI-assisted code refactoring to Java or .NET, lift-and-shift adoption, and microservices enablement with CI/CD pipelines and observability.
• A robust decommissioning framework (ASSET: Assess–Spot–Strategize–Execute–Track) to retire legacy systems methodically while unlocking residual value.

Coforge’s depth of domain expertise, especially in travel, finance, insurance, and government, and its reputation for execution intensity means modernization is delivered with reliability, risk management, and measurable business impact.

Both of these organizations deliver results!

For example, a large U.S. state court system used mLogica’s LIBER*M to transform a legacy case management system spanning 60 counties and seventy platforms. The migration was seamless, nondisruptive, and generated more than $24 million in ROI within the first year.

In education, a public school district transformed nearly 900 legacy SAP SQL Anywhere databases using STAR*M into AWS based PostgreSQL. The automated approach avoided manual errors, reduced cost, and enabled scalability.

Coforge’s impact is equally tangible. A leading travel tech provider modernized its legacy mainframe systems using Gen AI Copilot: reverse engineering, auto code generation to Java (Spring Boot), unit test automation, and seamless integration into DevOps pipelines. The result: 30% cost savings, 80–90% reduction in development and testing effort, zero repeated code defects, and >90% unit test coverage.

Coforge has also delivered legacy modernization and mainframe offloading for aviation clients, including top GDS providers, with careful modernization roadmaps and low-risk cut over strategies.

Together, mLogica’s AI-powered modernization platforms and Coforge’s disciplined execution solutions and frameworks redefine modernization as strategic enterprise evolution, not just technical refactoring:

• Automation-first: Reduces human error, accelerates delivery, and embeds business logic accurately.
• Cloud-native readiness: Supports scalable, resilient architectures tailored for modern digital workloads.
• Business-aligned execution: Maintains uptime, ensures cost control, and drives measurable ROI.
• Domain and delivery excellence: Cohesively applies transformation in highly regulated or complex sectors.

The result?

Enterprises emerge with intelligent, adaptive IT landscapes, empowering innovation, reducing TCO, improving time-to-market, and staying future-proof.

Modernization is the strategic bedrock of agility and competitiveness. If your organization aims to transform legacy systems into intelligent, cloud-native platforms, while preserving business continuity and accelerating impact, mLogica and Coforge offer the proven blueprint.

Unlock the full potential of modernization. Connect with our teams at modernize@coforge.com and modernize-now@mlogica.com to discover how mLogica and Coforge can help your enterprise evolve into an intelligent, cloud-native organization.

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