Application modernization is a critical priority for enterprises striving to remain competitive in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. Businesses are actively seeking efficient ways to modernize legacy applications, migrate workloads to the cloud, and harness AI-powered insights. However, one major roadblock persists: seamless access to mainframe data.
This is where the powerful synergy of SIMBYM and VirtualZ Computing comes into play. SIMBYM, a full-stack no-code platform, empowers enterprises to develop, deploy, and manage applications without writing a single line of code—dramatically simplifying modernization efforts. VirtualZ addresses one of the most challenging aspects of these projects: providing real-time, secure access to mainframe data without the need for replication, extraction, or ETL pipelines.
Together, SIMBYM and VirtualZ offer enterprises the power of no-code innovation, delivering a streamlined, efficient approach to seamless application modernization while maintaining secure, high-performance access to critical mainframe data.
The Growing Need for No-Code Application Modernization
Organizations relying on legacy applications often face significant challenges, including:
- Skills shortages: Finding experienced mainframe developers is increasingly difficult.
- Complex codebases: Legacy applications often contain decades-old custom code that is costly and time-consuming to refactor.
- Slow modernization efforts: Traditional modernization projects can take years, delaying business agility.
- Data access bottlenecks: Modern applications require real-time access to mainframe data, yet traditional approaches like ETL and Change Data Capture (CDC) are expensive, slow, and resource-intensive.
SIMBYM’s no-code platform provides a solution by enabling enterprises to build modern applications quickly and without coding. However, for many enterprises, the challenge isn’t just modernizing applications — it’s ensuring seamless, secure, and real-time access to mainframe data.
How SIMBYM and VirtualZ Computing Work Together
The combination of Simbym’s no-code development and VirtualZ’s real-time mainframe data access removes the most common obstacles to application modernization.
Simbym: No-Code Development for Enterprise Applications
Simbym empowers organizations to:
- Build, deploy, and manage applications without writing code.
- Rapidly develop and modify applications using intuitive drag-and-drop interfaces.
- Automate workflows, analytics, and reporting.
- Reduce dependency on expensive development resources.
While SIMBYM simplifies the application development process, enterprises still need a way to integrate mainframe data without complexity — and that’s where VirtualZ Computing comes in.
VirtualZ: Seamless Mainframe Data Access
VirtualZ’s Lozen™, PropelZ™, and Zaac™ solutions eliminate manual data extraction and replication, providing real-time, secure access to mainframe data for SIMBYM-powered applications:
- Lozen enables real-time, bidirectional read/write access to mainframe data, allowing modern applications built on SIMBYM to interact with live mainframe data as if it were stored in the cloud.
- PropelZ provides a one-way push of mainframe data to cloud-based analytics, AI, and reporting tools, ensuring SIMBYM applications have access to accurate and up-to-date data.
- Zaac offers cost-effective hybrid storage, enabling enterprises to access historical mainframe data efficiently without maintaining costly on-premise storage solutions.
By integrating SIMBYM’s no-code UI with VirtualZ’s real-time data access, enterprises can modernize applications without the delays, risks, and costs associated with traditional ETL and CDC solutions.
Benefits of the SIMBYM + VirtualZ Combination
By leveraging SIMBYM for no-code application development and VirtualZ for mainframe data access, enterprises can achieve:
- Faster application modernization: Build, test, and deploy applications in days, not years.
- Zero-code data integration: Seamlessly connect mainframe data without writing ETL scripts or complex migration pipelines.
- Lower costs: Eliminate the need for costly data replication, middleware, and custom coding.
- Real-time data availability: Ensure applications have immediate access to live mainframe data without performance bottlenecks.
- Enhanced security and compliance: Keep data securely on IBM Z while enabling seamless cloud integration.
- Scalable cloud adoption: Easily connect SIMBYM applications with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Snowflake.
With this no-code + seamless data access approach, enterprises can modernize applications without the traditional hurdles of data migration, code refactoring, or ETL pipelines.
The Future of Mainframe Modernization is Here
Modernizing mainframe applications no longer requires lengthy, costly, and complex transformations. With SIMBYM and VirtualZ Computing, enterprises can:
- Quickly build and deploy modern applications using a no-code platform.
- Ensure real-time, secure access to mainframe data without ETL or CDC complexities.
- Drive digital transformation without disrupting existing business processes.
This partnership represents a new era of modernization — one that removes the biggest barriers to innovation. If your organization is looking to accelerate application modernization while maintaining secure and seamless access to mainframe data, SIMBYM and VirtualZ are the perfect solution.
A Compelling Perspective from Raj Rajendran Co-Founder of SIMBYM
“We are 100% no-code. Our platform allows enterprises to develop, deploy, and manage applications without writing a single line of code. But the real challenge in modernization isn’t just building the applications — it’s accessing the data. That’s where VirtualZ comes in. With their seamless mainframe data access, we can now offer a complete solution that eliminates the complexity of legacy data integration. Together, we’re unlocking a new era of modernization.”
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