Ep225: From COBOL to Agile Workflows - Accelerate Mainframe Modernization with AWS Transform and Pega Blueprint
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Experts from Pegasystems and AWS reveal how AI-powered tools now modernize decades-old mainframe systems in weeks instead of years—unlocking trapped data faster than ever.
Topics Include:
- Session covers accelerating mainframe modernization using AWS Transform and Pega Blueprint
- Agenda: challenges, joint solution, value prop, customer story, rollout mechanism
- Mainframe costs rise 20-30% yearly, straining IT budgets significantly
- Monolithic systems create long time-to-market, hurting competitiveness against newer rivals
- Mainframe data stays locked away, blocking AI adoption and innovation
- Retiring mainframe skills outpace new workforce training, compounding the problem
- AI now enables analyzing decades-old code bases within weeks, not years
- AWS Transform extracts business logic; Pega Blueprint visualizes modernized target applications
- Five-step journey: Transform, Pega Foundry, Blueprint, then deployment via Infinity platform
- Three Transform agents handle code, data, and activity analysis separately
- Data analysis covers data lineage and data dictionary schema extraction
- Outputs feed a knowledge graph, enabling natural language queries anytime
- Transform deterministically identifies distinct data paths from mainframe systems
- Data paths get grouped into business functions, each modernizable independently
- Final steps extract business logic and generate plain-English requirements
- Blueprint agent enriches Transform outputs, enabling intuitive workflow design
- Blueprint offers runtime previews and is publicly accessible at pega.com
- Pega Infinity platform handles both batch and online mainframe workloads
- Insurance company Unum modernized 1.5M lines of COBOL in three months
- Experience-Based Acceleration program delivers modernized, working code within four-to-six weeks
Participants:
- Surender Kumar – Director, Mainframe Modernization, Pegasystems
- Ujwal Bukka – Sr Partner Solutions Architect, Business Apps, Amazon Web Services
- Sourav Sarkar – Sr Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, Mainframe & Legacy Modernization, Amazon Web Services
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