CHENNAI, INDIA: Zylog Systems Ltd, on Tuesday announced that it is launching a Cloud-enablement and legacy modernization platform, PowerMigrator, based on IBM WebSphere, SOA, DB2 and AWS technologies.

The new platform helps enterprises to automatically migrate their legacy applications that have been built based on PowerBuilder, Foxpro, Cobol, VB applications to WebSphere-based Java and SOA technologies.

PowerMigrator converts and migrates 50-60 per cent of the existing codes to the latest J2EE technologies, reducing time and money typically spent re-writing and migrating the applications, said a press release.

The platform is designed to build Cloud and SOA-enabled applications that can align and automate business processes with IT for greater agility, performance, resource optimization and fewer required human interventions.

The PowerMigrator platform provides the flexibility to transform 2-tier applications to N-tier applications enabled with web services and SOA, keeping intact the business layers to generate optimized performance. With reduced manual intervention and cloud enablement, the businesses can drastically reduce TCO, build virtually green environments and increase ROI.

“We help our customers to retain and leverage the value they have spent on their legacy applications through re-usability of existing application code while embracing emerging technologies such as Cloud and SOA”, said Shiv Kumar, executive vice-president, Zylog Systems Ltd.

He added that this new solution addresses the IT challenges found in migrating legacy applications cost effectively and is evolved around agile methodology taking the product faster to the market.

Customers also have the option of choosing the right deployment model to meet their needs – including On-premise, SaaS or Cloud based.