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AthenaAutomation

Unlock the value trapped in yesterday’s tech—without a risky rip-and-replace.

The Anchors Below

Ethan, your head of IT, still relies on a green-screen mainframe for core pricing logic. A creaky VB6 app prints shipping labels. A decades-old Oracle database feeds nightly batch reports. They all work—until they don’t—and nobody dares touch the brittle code for fear of bringing the business to its knees.

Why It Hurts

Innovation gridlock – New digital products stall because old systems can’t talk to modern tools.

Brain-drain risk – The only engineer who understands the COBOL job scheduler retires next quarter.

Hidden downtime costs – Outages spike whenever aging hardware hiccups, crushing SLAs and morale.

Snowballing tech debt – Each quick fix adds another layer of complexity, making the next change even scarier.

Picture a Stress-Free Bridge

Mainframe functions surface as secure REST APIs. The VB6 label app appears in a browser with zero user-training. Real-time data replication streams transactions to the cloud for analytics. You phase out brittle components at your pace—while the business keeps humming.

How We Make It Happen

Assessment & Prioritization Workshop
In two days we inventory every legacy touchpoint, plot risk vs. value, and agree on which components must move first and which can coast for now. No guesswork, no endless audits.

API Wrappers, Not Big Bangs
We encapsulate critical legacy logic behind modern endpoints. Front-end teams call GET /price instead of scraping green screens. No code rewrite, no night-long cut-overs.

Real-Time Data Replication
Change-data-capture streams your on-prem tables to cloud storage in seconds, giving analysts fresh insights without stressing production systems—or waiting for 2 a.m. batches.

Gradual Refactor & Decommission
We peel monolithic functions into micro-services, module by module, running them side-by-side until the new path proves bullet-proof. Then we retire the old with a quiet toggle, not a cliff dive.

Automated Testing & Cut-Over Guards
Parallel runbooks, synthetic transactions, and instant rollback scripts make every switchover uneventful—your users may not even notice.

First-Quarter Wins Clients Celebrate

New e-commerce front-end launched without touching the AS/400 pricing core.

Reporting latency dropped from nightly batch to near real time, empowering same-day decisions.

Emergency hot-fixes on brittle scripts fell 70 % once critical jobs moved to managed APIs.

The 90-Day Quick-Start

Days 1–15 • Landscape Map & Quick-Win Pick
We diagram dependencies, grade risk, and choose a single high-impact interface (often pricing or inventory) for the first modernization slice.

Days 16–45 • API Wrapper Live
Legacy calls stay untouched; new digital channels consume the modern endpoint. Side-by-side tests prove parity.

Days 46–70 • Data Replication & Cloud Insight
Change-data-capture feeds analytics. Dashboards that took hours appear in seconds.

Days 71–90 • Refactor Roadmap & Pilot Cut-Over
We decompose one legacy module, flip traffic, and validate. The pattern becomes the template for the rest.

Why You’ll Love It

Low-risk evolution – Keep the lights on while you modernize, one slice at a time.

Faster innovation – New apps tap old logic via APIs instead of waiting for a full rewrite.

Cost predictability – Pay-as-you-go refactor, not a single budget-busting leap.

Talent relief – Modern languages and pipelines attract new engineers; tribal knowledge is documented and wrapped.

Business continuity – Zero-downtime migrations and instant rollbacks keep revenue safe.

Ready to Lighten the Legacy Load?

Book a 30-minute modernization consult. We’ll pinpoint your highest-risk anchor, sketch a phased rescue plan, and demonstrate a live API wrapper on the call.

No jargon. No cliff-edge rewrites. Just a clear, calm path from yesterday’s constraints to tomorrow’s momentum.

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