Rocket DevOps, MX, API, iCluster® – Solutions for IBM i™

VP of Solution Sales, Dan Magid, and Senior Sales Engineer, Charles Jones, recently hosted the "Building Bridges: AS/400 to modern platforms" webinar in partnership with IBM Systems Magazine. A recording of the session is available here if you'd like to view it again or share with colleagues. The webinar focused on how organizations can "build bridges" by using services to connect applications built in RPG, CL, and DB2 for the AS/400 with applications and components built in the latest technology-regardless of whether those applications are running on IBM i, or any other platform. The problem for many organizations is their isolated application environments. Often split into core platform developers and new technology developers, the culture of these two application groups can be very different. The difficultly is in how to connect the people who work in the new technology environment with the applications and functions being built and maintained in the heritage environment. It becomes

IntroductionThere are companies willing to invest millions of dollars and take enormous business risk to move their legacy applications and data to new platforms. Yet most don't take the time, or invest the minimal effort needed, to examine the existing options for delivering the latest user experiences on IBM i. If they did, they would find that their understanding of IBM i is-ironically-outdated.There is almost no interface that can be built on Windows, Linux or UNIX systems that you can't do as well-if not better and cheaper-on IBM i. And there is already a thriving ecosystem of tools to help companies modernize quickly.Welcome to the first of our three-part "Productive on Power: Bringing the latest User Experiences to IBM i" blog series. Over the next few weeks, we'll cover modernization initiatives that are making users and customers more productive and more satisfied.These posts will discuss cost-effective strategies to bring great experiences to your IBM i by: Modernizing the U