Mainframe Application Managed Services: Future-Proof Your Critical Applications
Discover how Application Managed Services for mainframe applications reduce risk, improve performance, and ensure compliance. Future-proof with Ensono AMS.
The Growing Challenge:
Mainframe Application Management in
a Changing World
Something unexpected happens. Your best COBOL developer just left the company. Your critical mainframe application is down, and the only expert who could fix it is gone. Now what? This is the reality for many enterprises today.
Without a modern approach to Mainframe Application Managed Services (AMS), enterprises risk downtime, inefficiencies, and escalating costs.
Challenges Holding Enterprises Back
Key Pain Points in Mainframe Application Management
- Skills Shortages & Knowledge Loss:
COBOL and legacy expertise is disappearing,
leaving gaps in support and modernization
efforts.
- Slow, Rigid Development Cycles:
Without automation and DevOps, businesses
struggle to release new features and updates
efficiently.
- Operational Inefficiencies & High Costs:
Manual processes, fragmented tools, and inefficient resource allocation increase costs and slow resolution times.
- Security & Compliance Gaps:
As regulations tighten, businesses need robust application security, encryption, and real-time
auditability.
Without a modern approach to AMS, enterprises risk operational instability, rising costs, and security vulnerabilities.
Smarter Approach
to Mainframe Application Managed Services
Ensono’s Application Managed Services (AMS) bring a modern, cloud-connected approach
to managing and optimizing mainframe applications.
- Reduce Risk & Future-Proof Operations:
Avoid knowledge loss with AI-powered application
explainability and expert-led continuity strategies.
- Enhance Performance & Reliability:
Proactive monitoring, observability, and transaction tracing
ensure smooth operations and faster issue resolution.
- Increase Security & Compliance Readiness:
Meet stringent regulations like DORA with automated
security testing, encryption, and compliance tracking.
- Accelerate Innovation with AI & Automation:
Offload development & testing to cloud environments,
integrate AI-driven enhancements, and deploy updates
faster with DevOps for mainframe.
How Ensono Application Managed Services
Delivers Value
Comprehensive Mainframe Application Managed Services Capabilities
Application
Support
24/7 monitoring, issue
resolution, and proactive
incident management.
Application Development & Maintenance
Enhancements, COBOL
upgrades, and feature optimizations.
Application Testing
& Deployment
Automated CI/CD pipelines,
DevOps for Z, and test offloading.
Application Security
& Compliance
Encryption, compliance tracking, and auditability for regulations like DORA.
Application Database Administration
Database and file optimization, schema management, and tuning.
Documentation & Knowledge Retention
AI-powered documentation and knowledge transfer to mitigate attrition risks.
What is AMS and Why Does It Matter?
What is AMS?
AMS, or Application Managed Services, is a structured approach to maintaining, optimizing, and securing applications. For mainframe
applications, AMS ensures high availability, modernization, and
risk reduction.
Why are mainframe application services important?
Reduce data transfer lag and ensure application
responsiveness by moving your mainframe closer
to your cloud environment.
How does Ensono’s AMS differ from other providers?
Ensono AMS integrates AI-powered observability, automated DevOps workflows, and proactive compliance monitoring, making it a smarter approach to mainframe application management. Unlike most providers, Ensono is one of the few that can both run and optimize your mainframe—managing everything from infrastructure to mission-critical applications and data. This end-to-end expertise ensures seamless performance, security, and modernization for enterprises relying on mainframe technology.
Learn about our clients’ success with Application Managed Services
Case Study
Mainframe application conversion supports modernization of major US defense organization
Learn how Ensono helped a major US defense organization modernize its mission-critical system, migrating from COBOL to C# and transitioning to SQL.
Case Study
Financial services client yields $10M savings & 50% increased capacity from mainframe modernization
With a future-focused solution in mind, Ensono delivered an economical tech solution that increased capacity and reduced daily processing times.
Case Study
Global data & risk analytics provider migrates 2/3 of mainframe application workload to AWS
Learn how Ensono helped global data & risk analytics provider to migrate 2/3 of mainframe application workload to AWS