Legacy Systems Consultants

Name

Legacy Systems Consultants

Legal name

Legacy Systems Consultants

Website

https://lsconsultants.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legacy Mainframe IT Consulting Services

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Management Consulting Services (54161), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Legacy Application Modernization (Re-platform/Re-host/Re-factor) (BPAEAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Legacy Modernization & Application Rationalization (BPAEAAAG)

Keywords

• Legacy mainframe support
• Walker software consulting
• Mainframe application services
• Legacy system modernization
• IT consulting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Consulting and Professional Services: Professional services revenue from providing mainframe consultants for Walker/Elevon support, including engagement managers, project managers, architects, programmers, QA testers, and technical writers. Billed through service contracts with defined hourly allocations.
2. Service Contract Plans: Tiered service plans (Standard, Premium, Priority) with defined response times, annual offsite hours, and monthly hour limits. Additional hours available at discounted rates (4-8% discounts). Recurring revenue from annual service contracts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Legacy Systems Consultants provides specialized consulting and professional services to maintain, enhance, and customize legacy mainframe financial systems, with a primary focus on Walker/Elevon software. Service offerings include software installation, upgrades, PSU maintenance, production support, custom modifications, integration/interfacing, training, and conversion services, delivered through tiered annual service contracts (Standard, Premium, Priority) and supplemental project staffing.

Product overview

Legacy Systems Consultants provides a portfolio of professional services focused on maintaining and enhancing legacy financial systems. The core offerings include Walker Services for Walker/Elevon financial software (covering CARMS, AP/PO, General Ledger, and Inventory Management modules), and Legacy Services for mainframe systems (MVS, OS/390, z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2). These are complemented by tiered Service Contracts (Standard, Premium, Priority) offering different response times and support hours, plus supplemental staffing for project-based needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Walker Services Comprehensive support services for Walker/Elevon software including installation, upgrades, PSU maintenance, production support, customization, training, integration, and conversion services. Covers modules such as CARMS, AP/PO, General Ledger, and Inventory Management. Targeted at enterprises running Walker/Elevon financial applications in banking, insurance, manufacturing, and other financial sectors.
• Legacy Services Technical consulting and support for legacy mainframe systems including MVS, OS/390, z/OS, DOS/VSE, TSO/ISPF, JCL/PROCS, COBOL, Assembler, HOGAN, Natural, VSAM, CICS, DB2, IMS DB/DC, Datacom/DB, and IDMS. Provides task sourcing services for engagement managers, project managers, architects, programmers, QA testers, and technical writers to enterprises with legacy mainframe investments.
• Service Contracts Tiered annual service plans providing phone and offsite support for Walker/Elevon and legacy systems. Plans include Standard (12-hour turnaround, 25 hours/year offsite), Premium (8-hour turnaround, 120 hours/year offsite, additional hours at 4% discount), and Priority (6-hour turnaround, 250 hours/year offsite, additional hours at 8% discount) tiers. All tiers include access to proprietary LSC-created fixes.
• Supplemental Staffing Temporary and project-based staffing services providing consultants including engagement managers, project managers, application architects, technology consultants, programmers, QA testers, technical writers, and help desk technicians. Designed to supplement client teams for Walker/Elevon and legacy mainframe projects using LSC's network of independent support professionals.

Quantifiable outcome

• Response times from 12 hours (Standard) down to 6 hours (Priority)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Modern Systems: Modern Systems provides automated mainframe modernization and COBOL/JCL transformation tooling and services. Like Legacy Systems Consultants, it serves enterprises dependent on legacy systems - particularly COBOL and mainframe workloads - and competes for the same support-and-modernize budget line.
• Astadia: Astadia provides mainframe and legacy application modernization services and tools, including COBOL-to-modern migration. It directly competes in the same legacy modernization services space that Legacy Systems Consultants occupies, particularly for financial and enterprise customers running older platforms.
• Heirloom Computing: Heirloom Computing specializes in re-platforming legacy mainframe applications to cloud-native environments, with a focus on COBOL and similar workloads. Comparable to Legacy Systems Consultants in targeting enterprises seeking to extend or replace legacy financial systems rather than rip-and-replace them.
• mlogica: mlogica delivers mainframe modernization, DevOps for mainframe, and COBOL/Java conversion services. Competes with Legacy Systems Consultants for enterprise customers running legacy financial and operational workloads seeking to maintain or transform their systems.

Emerging players

• TmaxSoft: TmaxSoft provides mainframe re-hosting and modernization platforms (Tibero, OpenFrame) that allow enterprises to move off legacy systems to x86/Linux. Relevant comparable as an alternative path for the same Walker/Elevon customer base that Legacy Systems Consultants serves.

Broad incumbents

• Micro Focus (OpenText): OpenText (which acquired Micro Focus) provides enterprise-grade mainframe development, testing, and modernization tools including COBOL and related runtimes. A broader incumbent in the legacy financial systems stack whose tooling and professional services overlap with what Legacy Systems Consultants delivers around Walker/Elevon and COBOL environments.
• BMC (formerly Compuware): BMC Software owns the former Compuware mainframe development toolset (Topaz, ISPW, Abend-AID) used by enterprises operating legacy mainframe applications. Broad incumbent with overlapping capabilities to Legacy Systems Consultants, offering tooling rather than bespoke Walker/Elevon consulting.

Others

• Skytap: Skytap provides cloud infrastructure for running legacy and mainframe workloads (including IBM i and AIX). Adjacent infrastructure peer to Legacy Systems Consultants: customers considering Skytap to host legacy environments versus engaging LSC to keep them in place on traditional mainframes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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