LzLabs Software
Defined Mainframe®
Turn valuable assets into drivers for business innovation – with minimal risk.
Our unique solution makes it simple and safe to unlock the value in your mainframe assets.
LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® (SDM) enables incremental mainframe migration and modernization, empowering you to turn siloed but valuable applications and data into difference makers once again.
Unlock your applications
and supercharge
your investment.
Reinvigorate critical assets.
Leverage your team’s vast experience and application knowledge on a modern platform of your choice, enhanced by open source and cloud tooling.
Reinvent testing & development.
Reduce testing cycles significantly, enjoy faster development and testing speed, and deploy products and services swiftly.
Rediscover your competitive edge.
Rather than living in isolation, information flows freely through your organization so you can respond to customer demands rapidly and become more agile than ever before.
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Unlock.
Pick and choose which mainframe applications to migrate to new environments of your choice with no need to recompile, transcode, or rewrite. By thinking big and starting small you can unlock the value in your applications and lay the foundations for future transformation.
Other applications can continue running on the mainframe, minimizing business disruption and reducing the moving parts. This approach delivers the lowest-risk migration option on the market.
- Speed up your migration from mainframe to modern systems, in the cloud or on-premises.
- Reduce migration risk through binary rehosting and incremental migration.
- Enact meaningful change with zero disruption from day one.
It works. It really works.
You need to have the courage, and you have to face a change project, but it works. Go for it”
— Markus Tschumper, Head of General IT Services, Swisscom
Enable your mainframe and Linux development teams to collaborate closer together, test more and earlier, and learn mutually beneficial skills.
Discover more about LzWorkbench.
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Transform.
Embrace the flexibility to transform and modernize faster and more efficiently. You can decide what to change in your applications rather than having to go back to square one.
Take back control of your transformation journey by using open-source tools now at your disposal to operate, monitor, and manage applications.
- Modernize whichever applications you want to change.
- Apply the power and agility of modern development tooling to maintain mainframe applications efficiently, in environments familiar to developers.
- Test and deploy new applications rapidly – improving time to market.
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Accelerate.
Leverage the freedom to deliver functionality at the pace your business needs and scale applications and workloads as required. Remain agile and pull ahead of your competition.
- Become truly agile by managing critical applications using modern DevOps pipelines.
- Drive business change by transforming applications, piece by piece, into new services to support your innovation initiatives.
- Enable mainframe applications to interoperate seamlessly with modern interfaces, helping you deliver the experiences your customers want, at a speed they expect.
Find out how to turn your mainframe assets into enablers for your business.
Our software.
LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®
LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® is the only solution that gives you the freedom to run mainframe assets on a modern platform without recompilation or data changes – minimizing risk, saving time, and accelerating innovation.
Once moved, the magic in your applications is set free and ready to fuel business growth.
Our software.
LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®
Migrated applications can be maintained by employees with a wide range of development backgrounds – including mainframe, Linux and other programming languages – and incremental modernization keeps disruption to a minimum, so everything continues running as you modernize.
Our software package.
Licence
A licence for SDM gives you the freedom to run your mainframe applications in an environment of your choice
E-Learning
Access our E-Learning Platform to train your team on running mainframe applications on Linux architectures
Support
Our Customer Service team is here to support you 24/7
Your modernisation journey.
With comprehensive consulting services, we help you define the modernisation strategy that is right for you.
We the support of our partners, we work with your teams to implement the plan that takes you off the mainframe.
Success Stories
How industry leaders are transforming their legacy business application landscapes
- Learn about successful migrations from mainframe to modern cloud environments.
- See real-world examples of enhanced agility, improved customer experience and reduced costs.
- Explore detailed case studies showcasing expert team driven approaches, innovative solutions and preserved intellectual property.
Product data sheets.
LzRelational™
Many organizations that continue to depend on the mainframe for their enterprise applications use the DB2® RDBMS for their mission-critical data. LzRelational provides support for relational schemas using PostgreSQL, an open-source RDBMS.
LzBatch™ Data Sheet
Many organizations continue to depend on the mainframe for batch job processing. This traditional method of overnight workload remains a key component of many existing mainframe applications.
LzOnline™ Data Sheet
Online transactional systems are a significant component of many organizations’ legacy mainframe applications. The power of today’s x86 platforms and cloud deployment models give companies more modern choices for their transactional systems.