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Mainframe Excellence 2025: A Generational Call for Strategic Platform Stewardship

Studies confirm that most companies using mainframes plan on continuing to do so for at least another decade. Often, their most valuable applications reside on the mainframe, making the mainframe application portfolio a singularly important repository of high-value intellectual property. Yet, Millennials, who are increasingly taking C-level positions, tend to have little or no experience with this application portfolio—having focused instead on distributed, web and mobile technologies.

With the right long- term strategy, these next-generation IT leaders can leverage their mainframe application portfolios in ways that generate transformative business value and competitive advantage for the next 10 to 15 years — and beyond.

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Mainframe applications, data and processing power are more important to businesses than ever. But mainframe budgets are typically tight, and enterprises are losing key mainframe staff.