Mainframe consulting

Optimizing your core technical infrastructure

The mainframe computer is entrusted with your organization's most critical data and processes. You rely on its availability and security to keep your business running. Yet without proper planning, mainframe upgrades, migrations, and consolidations can be disruptive and costly.

At CGI, we guide our clients in the optimization and management of their mainframe environment. We harness the expertise we've gained from more than three decades of designing and operating an extensive network of data centers to assist clients with all aspects of mainframe transformations.

Through our mainframe consulting offering, we help integrate the strengths of the mainframe and provide systems programming and planning expertise to achieve success and minimize transition impacts.

Focused offerings

When clients come to CGI, they get a wide range of technical expertise from one trusted provider. We don’t sell hardware and, as a result, our clients benefit from our vendor neutrality.

Our mainframe consulting experience spans multiple systems, solutions, and hardware platforms, and encompasses the following services:

Consulting

  • Server consolidation and virtualization
  • Workload optimization
  • Batch  window optimization
  • Mainframe audit and compliance services
  • Database/platform migration
  • Legacy assessment
  • System/DB2 tuning
  • System integration

System administration

  • z/OS administration
  • Transaction processing
  • Database administration
  • Network administration
  • Storage management
  • Security administration
  • Capacity and performance
  • OS, subsystem,  and ISV software upgrades and migrations
  • Automation
  • ISV product installation, customization, and support
  • Incident/problem/change management
  • Event management

Operations

  • Incident management
  • Monitoring
  • Scheduling
  • Tape management
  • Console operations and IPL
  • Output management

Benefits of our mainframe expertise and services

CGI mainframe consulting services have helped clients across the globe to achieve the following benefits:

  • Reduce total cost of ownership for the IT landscape
  • Reduce cost of business operations by optimizing application functionality
  • Increase operational efficiency within the IT landscape
  • Increase business agility, reuse of business functionality, and optimization of legacy systems
  • Identify and mitigate risks
  • Improve processes  to maximize ROI

Also see

  • Brochure - Mainframe consulting - CGI’s mainframe consulting services guide you in the optimization and management of your mainframe environment, while providing planning expertise to help achieve success and minimize transition impacts.