| |AUGUST 202219CIOReviewWe can move people from COBOL to Java and C# faster than anybody in the industry because of our highly automated and scalable software platform.With their client-centric and nimble approach to the transformation effort, Astadia completed the migration successfully, and the project won the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's (AFCEA) Distinguished Award for Excellence in Engineering in December 2021. According to Silk, there are three factors that establish Astadia's uniqueness in the marketplace. The first one is their specialized focus on mainframes. Secondly, the company has highly capable consultants, each with an average of 26 years of mainframe experience. This is vitally important as about 85% of the skills and knowledge required to migrate to the cloud are mainframe-centric. Lastly, the company prides itself on the software factory model that is highly automated."We can move people from COBOL to Java and C# faster than anybody in the industry because of our highly automated and scalable FastTrack Factory, a software platform that can accelerate and standardize a successful mainframe migration project," says Silk, CEO, and Chairman, Astadia.With mainframe experts nearing their retirement age, organizations are looking to reduce their dependence on mainframe systems, and companies like Astadia have become a crucial part of that endeavor. Astadia's vast experience and expertise have thus made them the partner of choice for both clients and Microsoft. "We have a documented customer success rate of 97 percent against the industry success rate from mainframe to cloud migrations of 24 percent," says Silk.The company provides two main mainframe migration solutions: rehosting, a more serviced-led approach that companies often pursue to move from older COBOL to more modern COBOL; the other approach, more software-led, is refactoring, that allows organization to move from COBOL to more modern programing languages like Java or C#. Astadia has developed software tools to help with either scenario for organizations of all shapes and sizes.
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