Getting Started with Planner

Get Started with OpenLegacy Hub Planner: Your Path to Risk-Free Modernization
Welcome to the OpenLegacy Hub! Until now, you might have primarily used the Integration Designer to expose your legacy systems as microservice-based APIs seamlessly. We're thrilled to introduce a powerful new addition to the OL-Hub platform: The Planner.

The OpenLegacy Hub Planner is designed to revolutionize how you approach mainframe and legacy system modernization. It moves beyond just integration, offering a strategic, AI-driven approach to planning and executing your modernization initiatives.

The Challenge of Legacy Modernization

Many organizations face significant hurdles when it comes to modernizing their critical legacy systems. The traditional approaches often involve:

High Risk: "Big bang" migrations can disrupt business continuity and lead to costly failures.
Complexity: Understanding intricate dependencies within monolithic applications is a daunting task. Time-Consuming: Manual analysis and planning can stretch modernization projects from months to years. Skill Gaps: Finding and retaining specialized legacy experts is increasingly difficult. This often leads to organizations being "stuck" with valuable business logic locked within outdated systems, hindering innovation and agility.

Introducing the OpenLegacy Hub Planner: Strategic Modernization Made Easy
The Planner addresses these challenges head-on by providing a structured, phased, and risk-free roadmap for your modernization journey. It leverages the power of AI and automation to help you:

Analyze and Discover Dependencies: Before you make any changes, the Planner securely connects to your mainframe, IBM i, and other legacy systems. It automatically maps and analyzes intricate interdependencies, providing a clear visualization of your current landscape. This crucial step identifies safe "decoupling points," allowing you to break down monolithic applications into manageable components.

Create Phased Modernization Plans:

Based on the dependency analysis, the Planner helps you craft tailored modernization plans.
This isn't a one-size-fits-all solution; it's a strategic plan that allows you to modernize at your own pace, ensuring zero disruption and full coexistence between your legacy and modern systems. Whether your strategy is encapsulating, rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rearchitecting, or even rebuilding, the Planner supports your chosen approach.

De-Risk and Accelerate Execution:

By proactively identifying and structuring your modernization efforts, the Planner eliminates much of the inherent risk.
It ensures business continuity throughout the transformation by allowing you to transition workloads step-by-step. This structured approach, combined with the Hub's automated API generation capabilities, significantly accelerates project timelines, allowing you to unlock business value faster.

How the Planner Works (High-Level Overview)

The Planner is an integral part of the OpenLegacy Hub's end-to-end modernization process:

Connect: Establish secure connections to your legacy systems.

Analyze: The Planner automatically scans and visualizes application dependencies.

Plan: Define your modernization strategy and generate phased roadmaps with identified decoupling points.

Execute: Utilize the Integration Designer (and other Hub functionalities) to automatically generate cloud-ready services from your legacy assets, following the Planner's roadmap.

Deploy: Deliver your modernized services to any cloud or hybrid environment.