SysperTec Communication
Modernizing Mainframe Applications with Ease

Although naysayers have propagated mainframe’s demise for decades, several organizations still use these green screen applications to hold large volumes of business-critical workloads due to its unmatched reliability and security. However, to align with today’s dynamic business requirements, businesses need to augment these applications by delivering new functionalities for modern environments, including web and mobile user interfaces. In their attempts to embrace these much-needed capabilities, organizations often end up trying to migrate their mission-critical workloads off the mainframe and develop similar applications in modern cloud platforms. But these initiatives often prove to be futile as they can take years to execute, very expensive or resource consuming, and risky.

So, what should such companies do to bridge the gap between the mainframe and the web? How can they provide "modern" users with hassle-free access to their legacy applications?

SysperTec Communication has the answer—its flagship offering, the Virtel Websuite. “With the ability to quickly modernize mainframe system without rewriting the complex application codes, Virtel allows businesses to rely on their existing applications with added benefits of enhanced user experience and lighter infrastructure,” says Sebastian Dewar, the CTO of SysperTec.

What gives Virtel an extra edge is its capability to provide access to legacy applications from anywhere, at any time, and from any device with ensured security.

This eliminates the need for deploying additional infrastructure—be intermediate servers, VPN, and software solutions on the end-user desktop such as Attachmate Extra! Or Micro Focus Rumba to enable users to access mainframe applications.

As Covid-19 increases remote connections, companies have to increase the security level of remote accesses. SSO, MFA, pass ticket and other security tools are sometimes not compatible with existing emulation solution. Virtel Web Access is natively designed to support security solutions.

Businesses can achieve these benefits by deploying SysperTec’s Virtel software solutions—Virtel Web Access, Virtel Web Modernization, and Virtel Web Integration—into their mainframe system.

• Virtel Web Access is designed for businesses to enable users to access applications in the traditional green screen format through web browsers over secure HTTP/S connections without the need for any additional software installation on the end-user device or an intermediate server.
• With Virtel Web Modernization, SysperTec converts legacy applications into user-friendly web applications, providing a genuine web portal experience to users.
• The Virtel Web Integration creates interactive bidirectional dialogs between host and server-based applications using XML/HTML web services or other communication procedures.

In a nutshell, the Virtel solution suite with proven modernization and integration capabilities helps businesses increase flexibility and reinstate the mainframe at the heart of their future information system in a simple, powerful, fast, and cost-effective way. This makes SysperTec the most sought-after partner for more than one hundred groups all over the world in various industries such as banks, insurance, retail, car manufacturer, airlines, and governments.

With many such instances of success, SysperTecis experiencing tramendous growth in Germany, the USA and Canada. Dedicated to simplifying the process even further, the company envisions providing a step-by-step modernization program, where clients can start with one application and then gradually move on to others after analyzing the results. This helps businesses execute their modernization plans in an agile and cost-effective manner without taking much risk. In short, SysperTec is on a drive to unleash the potential of legacy applications by collaborating them with the modern world.

To further elaborate on SysperTec’s value proposition, Sebastian Dewar recalls its collaboration with PSA, a French car manufacturer, with a mainframe application for their retailers to order spare parts. They wanted to make their legacy applications accessible for these retailers without having to deploy additional software. This was made possible with SysperTec’s Virtel Web Access product. SysperTec also deployed its Virtel Web Modernization product to modernize the mainframe application without rewriting it. With these easy-to-deploy, no-latency solutions, the client could improve their interactions with the retailers worldwide and subsequently enhance business operations.