Application Services
Continuous improvement of application services is critical to ensuring the robustness, scaling, security, performance, and flexibility to meet business demands.
OpenVMS Runs Mission-Critical Applications
Your organization has likely invested many years and possibly millions of dollars in developing and maintaining these applications, which continue to power your most important business processes. In many cases these systems know your business better than any off-the-shelf solution ever could, however aging technology stacks, retiring expertise, and ever-evolving business needs can put this investment at risk. Ranging from workshops and consulting engagements through to assistance with major modernisation initiatives (such as porting to VSI OpenVMS x86-64) and application maintenance and support, where we take over the task of looking after your application code, VSI Application Services are a portfolio of services designed to help you to solve these problems to get the most out of your VSI OpenVMS application environments now and into the future, safeguarding and extending the life these valuable legacy assets and avoiding the need for expensive and disruptive replacement projects.
VMS Software can help you to address these challenges by providing the following services
If it’s anything to do with maintaining and enhancing your OpenVMS application environment, we are here to help, and we’d love to hear from you!
Integration Services
Seamlessly bridging old and new by integrating your legacy OpenVMS applications with modern leading-edge technologies, preserving core business logic while enhancing scalability and efficiency is an ongoing challenge for many OpenVMS users. You might be moving to a microservices or an event-driven architecture across the business, looking to interact with cloud services and data sources, or simply wanting to replace proprietary software products with open-standards-based solutions. The VMS Software Application Services are able to work with your IT and business architects to help you design these solutions, leveraging the latest commercial, open-source, or customized technologies, and to incorporate these into your OpenVMS environment.
Application Modernization
Application modernization services provided by the VSI Application Services team are designed to help you preserve the business logic and reliability of your proven mission-critical OpenVMS applications by transitioning those applications away from end-of-life constraints and mounting maintenance costs in a low-risk manner, focusing on pragmatic evolution and incremental change by enabling applications to run efficiently on contemporary platforms (VSI OpenVMS x86-64), incorporating new technologies, improving integration with modern ecosystems, enhancing security and scalability, and exposing functionality via APIs/microservices and modern UIs without unnecessarily disrupting stable, well-understood, and proven business logic.
Application Maintenance and Support
Many OpenVMS users with large custom-written applications no longer have sufficient software development expertise in-house to maintain and support these applications and can find it difficult or expensive to find suitably skilled developers or service providers. The VMS Software Application Services team are able to provide cost-effective specialized application maintenance and support services for custom-written OpenVMS-based software applications that can be tailored to meet your specific requirements.
Application Reviews
Regardless of whether you are considering moving to OpenVMS on x86-64 in the future or staying with your existing VAX, Alpha, or Integrity platforms, it is important to have a top-to-bottom understanding of your application environment. Our Application Services team can work with you to perform a detailed review of the overall application environment and make recommendations with regard to any improvements that might be possible. Encompassing roadmap planning, strategy sessions, architecture assessments, and best-practice guidance, the duration and scope of reviews can be tailored to meet your specific requirements and can focus in more detail on specific aspects of the environment if necessary. This service may be a logical precursor to one or more of the other services described above.
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VSI Application Services is about providing you with solutions and not just products!
OpenVMS continues to drive numerous business-critical systems across multiple industries and business sectors, ranging from nuclear power plants and manufacturing through to financial services and healthcare. You will have invested decades of time and very considerable funding into the development and ongoing maintenance of these applications to meet very specific business needs and to drive business advantage. Accordingly, it makes sense to retain and modernize these applications, and we want to help you achieve this goal.
Legacy doesn't mean outdated; it means proven and adaptable.