The Avon Company needed to migrate its Integrated Marketing Information System (IMIS) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). IMIS is a bespoke core IBM Mainframe application that had no alternative outside of the mainframe so the decision was made to replatform it to the cloud. To get there, The Avon Company created a technology ecosystem with Heirloom Computing and Cognizant that pivoted around AWS as the destination.

Cognizant led the project, using Heirloom Computing's Probe™ for application inventory analysis & collection, and Heirloom® for code refactoring and data migration. The IMIS application was replatformed into a cloud-native application running on the JVM and deployed to AWS, through a process known as automated refactoring using the Heirloom product suite. The migration project was completed on time and underwent a parallel production period that was aligned with the mainframe decommissioning milestone.