Understand your legacy.
Change with control.
Do you know what your legacy systems actually do? Before you move, convert or retire anything, find out. Then choose a route and change in stages you can check.
No magic button.
Anyone who promises a quick answer for a whole estate is guessing. We start from evidence, you agree the scope and the choices with us, and you check each stage before the next one begins. Tooling takes on the repetitive work so things move faster. People make every judgement, and people answer for it.
01 / Understand
Map the programs, data and dependencies in scope, so you know what the current system does before you choose a target.
02 / Choose
Agree what to keep, change or retire. The findings and a proof of concept shape a roadmap around the business outcome you need.
03 / Validate
Change in agreed stages. Experts review each stage and you check behaviour and business outcomes before the next one begins.
NordIQ supports the work
NordIQ Suite supports our consultancy approach. Evidence about your current estate informs every choice and check that follows.
NordIQ Vision
Do you know what your mainframe really does? Too often the answer sits in the heads of a few experienced people, with little documentation behind it. Vision gives you the full picture. It maps programs, calls, data stores and dependencies, so you start from evidence instead of assumption. We think of it as an MRI for your mainframe.
- See the interdependencies and hidden risks before you commit to a change.
- Trace every finding back to the source behind it.
- Understand what a change will affect, and what it will cost, before you make it.
- Use a dedicated view to evidence your regulatory compliance position.
- Put business owners and engineers on the same picture.
Vision powers the discovery phases of InCase Modernisation as a Service. The insight is sharpened by AI and validated by our engineers. If you decide to keep your mainframe, Vision makes it understandable, transparent and easier to manage.
NordIQ Shift
Worried a conversion will change how your systems behave? Shift uses the Vision analysis to guide a scoped conversion from mainframe code to Java that runs in containers, in stages you agree. Your business logic and processes are carried across, so you don't have to rebuild your core systems from scratch.
- You agree the scope and the requirements first.
- Tooling supports the work and specialists review the output.
- Every recommended change is a proposal you accept or reject, shown with the source lines behind it. Each decision is recorded with who made it and when.
- Behaviour is validated against the agreed requirements.
- Every change traces from the source artefact to the resulting target artefact.
- Refactoring is your choice, not a condition of migration.
- Java skills are easier to find than older mainframe language expertise, and containerised applications can run more efficiently than native mainframe ones.
Shift carries you through the conversion and delivery phases of Modernisation as a Service. The work is accelerated by AI and verified by our engineers at every step.
See the approach in action
Three short videos: NordIQ Vision (1 min 13 sec), NordIQ Shift (56 sec) and the NordIQ Suite overview (6 min 36 sec).
Start with a proof of concept
A focused first step
A proof of concept tests the approach on a small, agreed part of your estate before you commit to anything larger. Start with one product, one process or a defined set of programs, chosen together.
Before work begins we agree the question to answer, the scope and the evidence needed. We then test the approach on your real code. You get findings to review with your own experts and a baseline for your next decision.
Want a second opinion first?
Connect modernisation with assurance
Assurance can test a modernisation case, scrutinise vendor proposals and challenge assumptions before they harden, including a case someone else has built.