Mainframe systems are often rigid and costly to maintain. Banks face mounting complexity, compliance pressures, and constraints—yet modernization efforts often risk high-profile failure.
Mechanical Orchard’s Imogen modernization platform rewrites aging banking applications into modern, cloud-ready systems—without breaking what already works. Our incremental but speedy process helps banks move faster, and avoids the long delays and failures of traditional modernization approaches.
We find out what's going on and how the system works, then use the platform to create a replica in modern, cloud-native codebase.
Imogen proves behavioral equivalence using actual data flows, giving confidence that the modern code created is reliable and minimizing disruptions.
As Imogen proves equivalence for each workload, that workload is cutover into production, where it's ready for innovation
Most modernization projects take years, go over budget, and introduce uncertainty. Imogen is an end-to-end mainframe modernization platform that takes a different approach from traditional, labor-intensive approaches. Instead of a combination of transpilation and brute-force integration and regression testing, followed by a single, high-stakes moment to see if everything actually works, banks now have a new option.
Imogen uses data flows to safely and incrementally rebuild critical systems. Instead of focusing only on code translation, it captures how individual workloads actually behave and rewrites that behavior into modern, idiomatic code. By creating a rapid loop of code generation and validation against real data flows as each workload is rewritten, Imogen removes the long, often uncertain phase that slows down current modernization methods.
While the methodology works for any legacy system, our data capture technology is optimized to automate the modernization process for the following mainframe technologies.
Banks regain the flexibility to adapt, launch new products, and improve operations without the often fraught and unpredictable big, "digital transformation" initiatives.
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We believe that every company deserves to realize their vision, free of constraints from the past. Our team's approach, technology, and experience can help them move into this evolving version safely, reliably, fearlessly.