Application Maintenance and Support

Retiring Workforce
Immediate COBOL Support
Cost-effective Solutions

Blue Hill offers comprehensive support for all applications within Mainframe and AS/400 – iSeries environments, including maintenance, enhancements, and modernization roadmaps. Blue Hill’s On-Shore USA Application Services team ensures high quality, cost-effective solutions tailored to your specific needs, reducing costs, improving performance, and freeing up staff for strategic initiatives.

Blue Hill programmers are knowledgeable in all aspects of the application software for your Mainframe and AS/400-iSeries environments. This team provides top-notch service, from utilizing best-practice technical design and coding, to maintaining and/or enhancing existing programs. They possess full understanding of all pertinent software required for day-to-day business operations. Blue Hill’s experts are proficient in all areas of these platforms, including high-level programming languages, legacy languages, operating systems, and databases.

Blue Hill’s support staff conducts unit and system testing and can accommodate all system and environmental changes. This team responds quickly and appropriately to all issues, handles all updates and troubleshooting, and acts as a guide, providing suggestions and solutions for improved application performance.

Blue Hill works with each client to determine the most appropriate solution for providing optimum support.

Why Blue Hill ?

Blue Hill becomes an extension of your IT Team letting you focus on core capabilities

Blue Hill is invested in your success

Skilled Legacy Resources are available to you when needed

Blue Hill’s flexibility guarantees preferred arrangements to suit your needs

Service Model Options

24/7 Managed Services

Blue Hill will manage the day-to-day IT applications requirements with a dedicated team to meet your required SLAs.

Staff Augmentation

Blue Hill will provide the necessary number of resources at the right skill set to supplement your IT team for additional support, or to add particular skill sets as required.

Dedicated Development Team

Blue Hill will provide a dedicated team to meet your requirements; the project and resources are managed by your company.

Project-Based, Fixed-Bid

The scope of the project, including modernization projects, is determined based on your specific requirements. Blue Hill manages the team and provide the necessary resources to complete your project on time and within budget.

Standard Application Services Mainframe and AS/400 – iSeries Systems

Customized to meet each client’s unique requirements

Applications Development Projects

Dedicated project development teams


Applications Maintenance and Support

Day-to-day support of the business applications

Enhancements, code and software maintenance


Blue Hill’s Specialty: Legacy Maintenance and Support

Mainframe: COBOL, Assembler, PL1, Natural, CICS

Databases: DB2, CA-IDMS and Datacom, IMS, VSAM, Adabas

AS/400 – iSeries: RPG, COBOL, CL


Functions Performed

Project Management

Business and Technical Analysis

Programming Modifications and Enhancements

Programming Code Upgrades and Conversions

Unit and Systems Testing

Systems Integration and Implementation

Database Administration and Technical Support

Database Conversions

Benefits of Blue Hill Application Services

Blue Hill’s Applications Services team can help clients reduce costs, provide flexibility, and free up the clients’ existing staff to focus on strategic initiatives.

Lower annual IT expenditures and operating costs

Provide flexibility by allowing a client’s work force to expand and contract as needed

Reduce constraints associated with limited IT skill sets

Experience faster turnaround times for maintenance and enhancements

Give your organization the ability to concentrate on core capabilities

Best Practices White Paper

A comprehensive Business Value Assessment of a client’s application environment, with options available to provide support and augment their staff’s capabilities:

Best Practices for Sourcing IT Applications

Deciding on a course of action for maintaining your legacy applications is not easy, nor is making the decision to source your IT support of these legacy systems. But when you look at the alternatives to costly migrations, and you see the onset of dwindling legacy skill sets, the decision might not be as difficult as you imagine.