The IBM® Enterprise Modernization sandboxes let you evaluate the IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for System z^TM and System i^TM through practical, hands-on experience. These solutions focus on five key modernization areas: Assets, Architectures, Skills, Processes, and Investment. Each solution is based upon real customer experiences and offers a proven path to get you started with your modernization projects.

These sandboxes make it easy and fun to quickly try practical scenarios guided by self-paced exercises. Leverage existing assets, architectures, and skills to quickly develop modern applications for System z, System i, and distributed platforms. You can also integrate, test, and deploy applications in a live test environment.

Visit the Enterprise Modernization sandbox for System z to explore our latest products for modernizing and deploying core System z applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment without downloading and installing them.

Some examples of what you can do online:

• Discover, analyze, and document business rules from existing applications
• Transform 3270 or 5250 screens to modern Web, portal or mobile interfaces
• Create components or service-enable existing COBOL, PL/I, or RPG programs
• Rapidly develop multiplatform applications with EGL, IBM's newest business language
• Deploy distributed workloads to host-based virtual servers to reduce total cost-of-ownership (TCO)
• Leverage common infrastructure to manage and share host and distributed assets
• Automate build and release management for host-based applications
• Automate functional and performance testing of host-based applications

and much more...

The Enterprise Modernization sandboxes are specially designed for enterprise architects, application developers, Web developers, test engineers, and deployment architects, but are available to everyone.

Through these online trial sandboxes, IBM provides a mix of full version software trials and "try online" hosted environments, where you can explore tutorials and get process guidance. You will also find links to online demos, best practice documentation and quick-start guides, all designed to provide practical application of Enterprise Modernization solutions and accelerate learning.