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Restoring confidence in

modernizing  mainframes

How a Fortune 500 retailer worked with Mechanical Orchard to safely and quickly move from the mainframe to the cloud

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The Backstory

“After six months, you have gone further than any other modernization attempt we have ever tried.”

Chief Enterprise Architect

Looking Ahead

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Velocity increases exponentially with each subsequent workload.

Conclusion

This case study highlights how Mechanical Orchard is helping the Company successfully transition from its legacy mainframe system to a modern, cloud- based infrastructure.

While past efforts — including significant investments in time and money — have taken years to determine whether the transition is working or not, the MO approach demonstrates genuine progress continuously, with no disruption to daily operations.

This method has not only improved system performance and reliability but has also restored confidence and morale within the IT team and wider organization that the Company is set up for the future.

Recreate and Deliver

Based on our learnings, we build a perfect replica of this component in a secure cloud environment where it’s subject to rigorous performance and functional criteria before it goes live. Now this component is modern, tested, instrumented and well understood. Most importantly, it’s ready for innovation—while running smoothly with the rest of the legacy system.

Repeat and Innovate

The process iterates with the next component until the entire system has deployed into the cloud environment. Each subsequent component could take progressively less time through applying our AI tools and organizational learnings.

Because we only work with a single component at a time, each one has a proven fallback method. This profoundly limits the risk to your living, breathing system at any given time.

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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.

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The Mechanical Orchard approach reduces risks

The Mechanical Orchard engagement
approach is designed to reduce risk and
demonstrate meaningful progress at every step.

The Exploratory Workshop

What is the most critical
business application?
What's connected to it?

The Pilot
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Can it be done?
What will it take?
Build initial roadmap

The Steel
Thread

Get to production
Address risk early
Validate the approach

Accelerate
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Tune for speed
Clear remaining risks
Tackle remaining mass
Make future change easy