Wednesday, April 11, 2007
ATERAS Announces ADABAS/Natural Migration Strategy to DB2, Oracle, SQL Server/COBOL, C# & VB.NET
ATERAS Announces ADABAS/Natural Migration Strategy to DB2, Oracle, SQL Server/COBOL, C# & VB.NET
News release
DALLAS, March 29 - ATERAS, a leading provider of fully automated legacy migration and modernization solutions, today announced its ADABAS/Natural conversion solution strategy that will enable organizations to migrate ADABAS databases and Natural applications to relational databases such as DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server using its automation technology DB-Shuttle(TM). Natural can be converted to COBOL, C# or VB.NET. The ADABAS/Natural conversion solution product offering helps organizations automatically migrate applications to modern, open technologies and database management systems. When an ADABAS/Natural migration is complete, a client will have functionally equivalent, seamlessly integrated applications, with Web capability that provides a reduced cost structure, improved business agility and applications that are SOA enabled and able to take advantage of new technical capabilities.
The ADABAS/Natural conversion solution product is another component in the overall DB-Shuttle Strategy, which includes: comprehensive IT assessments, database and data migrations and application migrations. The ATERAS solution ensures that the migration of ADABAS/Natural will be completed in a timely, cost effective and low risk manner. Our solution includes no system level software, no "black box" processing, no perpetuation of ADABAS, no additional execution overhead, no functional changes from an end-user perspective, and no license fees. The ATERAS solution provides for the complete replacement of ADABAS/Natural to newer relational technology databases and newer robust languages using highly automated tools and a comprehensive, streamlined and very mature process. The ADABAS/Natural conversion solution is designed to maintain comparable or improved application response times of the converted applications in the target environment and to ensure scalability, reliability and performance. The resulting conversion solution is a 3-tier architecture consisting of a User Interface Layer, Business Layer and Data Access Layer for each converted program.
"Providing an ADABAS/Natural migration solution is an important addition to our DB-Shuttle automation technology suite of products. There is a high demand for ATERAS to provide an ADABAS solution -- doing so will widen our product offering and customer base. Globally, ATERAS has had many successes with its other solutions (IDMS, IMS) that convert older applications and databases to new technologies," states Scott Miller, president and chief executive officer of ATERAS.
About ATERAS
ATERAS has supported global enterprises for over 20 years, offering state of the art services to our clients by modernizing and migrating legacy systems to the most current IT environments. The patent-pending DB Shuttle(TM) automation technology provides everything from comprehensive assessments of existing IT environments to fully automated conversions. Migration of mission critical applications and databases can be either mainframe to mainframe or mainframe to distributed platforms utilizing the .NET Framework. ATERAS delivers these solutions by working through leading systems integrators and alliance partners in markets including: Insurance, Financial Services, Healthcare, Government and Universities, both domestically and globally. For more information on ATERAS' solutions visit http://www.ateras.com/ .
Contact: ATERAS
Anna Stamatelatos
Vice President Sales & Marketing
469.385.7236
Website: http://www.ateras.com
News release
DALLAS, March 29 - ATERAS, a leading provider of fully automated legacy migration and modernization solutions, today announced its ADABAS/Natural conversion solution strategy that will enable organizations to migrate ADABAS databases and Natural applications to relational databases such as DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server using its automation technology DB-Shuttle(TM). Natural can be converted to COBOL, C# or VB.NET. The ADABAS/Natural conversion solution product offering helps organizations automatically migrate applications to modern, open technologies and database management systems. When an ADABAS/Natural migration is complete, a client will have functionally equivalent, seamlessly integrated applications, with Web capability that provides a reduced cost structure, improved business agility and applications that are SOA enabled and able to take advantage of new technical capabilities.
The ADABAS/Natural conversion solution product is another component in the overall DB-Shuttle Strategy, which includes: comprehensive IT assessments, database and data migrations and application migrations. The ATERAS solution ensures that the migration of ADABAS/Natural will be completed in a timely, cost effective and low risk manner. Our solution includes no system level software, no "black box" processing, no perpetuation of ADABAS, no additional execution overhead, no functional changes from an end-user perspective, and no license fees. The ATERAS solution provides for the complete replacement of ADABAS/Natural to newer relational technology databases and newer robust languages using highly automated tools and a comprehensive, streamlined and very mature process. The ADABAS/Natural conversion solution is designed to maintain comparable or improved application response times of the converted applications in the target environment and to ensure scalability, reliability and performance. The resulting conversion solution is a 3-tier architecture consisting of a User Interface Layer, Business Layer and Data Access Layer for each converted program.
"Providing an ADABAS/Natural migration solution is an important addition to our DB-Shuttle automation technology suite of products. There is a high demand for ATERAS to provide an ADABAS solution -- doing so will widen our product offering and customer base. Globally, ATERAS has had many successes with its other solutions (IDMS, IMS) that convert older applications and databases to new technologies," states Scott Miller, president and chief executive officer of ATERAS.
About ATERAS
ATERAS has supported global enterprises for over 20 years, offering state of the art services to our clients by modernizing and migrating legacy systems to the most current IT environments. The patent-pending DB Shuttle(TM) automation technology provides everything from comprehensive assessments of existing IT environments to fully automated conversions. Migration of mission critical applications and databases can be either mainframe to mainframe or mainframe to distributed platforms utilizing the .NET Framework. ATERAS delivers these solutions by working through leading systems integrators and alliance partners in markets including: Insurance, Financial Services, Healthcare, Government and Universities, both domestically and globally. For more information on ATERAS' solutions visit http://www.ateras.com/ .
Contact: ATERAS
Anna Stamatelatos
Vice President Sales & Marketing
469.385.7236
Website: http://www.ateras.com
Labels: c-sharp, cobol, databases, db2, migration, oracle, sql-server, vb-net
Vienna Insurance Provider Saves Millions by Migrating from Mainframes
Vienna District Health Insurance Provider Saves Millions by Migrating Applications from Mainframe
NEWBURY, England & ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2007--Micro Focus(R) (LSE:MCRO.L), a leader in enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announced that Vienna, Austria, health insurance provider Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse (WGKK) has successfully switched over from its Unisys 2200 mainframe to IBM System p hardware running AIX, saving WGKK many millions of euros in IT costs. In addition, ongoing annual IT operating costs have been dramatically reduced and are now just 5 percent of the operating costs of the mainframe.
Read the full press release from here @ Insurance News Net
NEWBURY, England & ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2007--Micro Focus(R) (LSE:MCRO.L), a leader in enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announced that Vienna, Austria, health insurance provider Wiener Gebietskrankenkasse (WGKK) has successfully switched over from its Unisys 2200 mainframe to IBM System p hardware running AIX, saving WGKK many millions of euros in IT costs. In addition, ongoing annual IT operating costs have been dramatically reduced and are now just 5 percent of the operating costs of the mainframe.
Read the full press release from here @ Insurance News Net
Labels: aix, austria, cobol, costs, europe, finance, insurance, migration, unisys
Paymaster Saves 300,000 GBP Per Year by Modernizing Core Banking Systems
Paymaster Saves 300,000 GBP Per Year by Modernizing Core Banking Systems
10/04/2007
Press release Via: Business Wire
Micro Focus(R) (LSE.MCRO.L), a leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announces that Paymaster, one of the largest providers of outsourced financial services in the United Kingdom, has successfully used Micro Focus application modernization technology to move its core legacy applications from a VME mainframe to a new Windows server.
Paymaster's operating costs have been reduced by 300,000 GBP per annum and banking processes are now running ten to 30 times faster.
The migration was conducted by migration partner Transoft (a Micro Focus Migration and Transformation Consortium (MTC) member) and completed within budget in just ten months.
Paymaster now anticipates an even better return on investment (ROI) than the 11 month ROI originally projected.
Additionally, Paymaster has been able to improve levels of system availability and security, while reusing its core application code and data to minimize risk and expense.
The application modernization initiative was prompted in June 2005, when Fujitsu announced its plans to withdraw support for its Trimetra mainframe line by the end of April 2006.
Paymaster's mission-critical banking suite was the last remaining application on its Trimetra mainframe and running such an important system on an unsupported platform was not an option for Paymaster.
By moving to a Windows server, the company has not just eliminated this problem, it has also dramatically improved batch performance and job automation, enabling its evening batch to complete three hours earlier.
"The savings we have been able to make of around 300,000 pounds per annum gave us our expected return on investment in just ten months.
However, the performance improvements took us by surprise, with our batch processes completing 10 to 30 times faster running under Micro Focus COBOL on a small two CPU server.
The project has been a total success for us and has given us the confidence to really drive ahead with further developments," said Ralph Tigwell, chief technology officer, Paymaster.
"We are pleased to assist Paymaster in its application modernization strategy," said Stuart McGill, chief technology officer at Micro Focus.
"Too many companies, unlike Paymaster, underestimate the value of their core systems when looking at ways to improve operational efficiency and business agility." About Paymaster Paymaster (1836) Ltd (previously the Office of the Paymaster General) is one of the largest providers of outsourced financial services in the UK.
Established in 1836 to co-ordinate the payment functions for public sector organisations, in particular pensions and payroll administration, Paymaster became part of Hogg Robinson plc in 1997 and subsequently Xafinity Ltd in July 2005.
Since 1997 it has provided services for both public and private sector companies.
Paymaster provides pensions administration and payroll services for some of the largest schemes in the UK.
It covers all aspects of DB and DC pension scheme and annuity administration.
Its pension payroll services make payments totalling more than GBP 7 billion to over 1.5 million pensioners and their dependants, in 189 countries throughout the world.
About Micro Focus Micro Focus provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications.
Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk.
For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.
The very latest perspectives, expertise and developments from Customers, Partners and Micro Focus are under one roof at Micro Focus World 2007.
For more information visit: www.microfocusworld.com.
10/04/2007
Press release Via: Business Wire
Micro Focus(R) (LSE.MCRO.L), a leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announces that Paymaster, one of the largest providers of outsourced financial services in the United Kingdom, has successfully used Micro Focus application modernization technology to move its core legacy applications from a VME mainframe to a new Windows server.
Paymaster's operating costs have been reduced by 300,000 GBP per annum and banking processes are now running ten to 30 times faster.
The migration was conducted by migration partner Transoft (a Micro Focus Migration and Transformation Consortium (MTC) member) and completed within budget in just ten months.
Paymaster now anticipates an even better return on investment (ROI) than the 11 month ROI originally projected.
Additionally, Paymaster has been able to improve levels of system availability and security, while reusing its core application code and data to minimize risk and expense.
The application modernization initiative was prompted in June 2005, when Fujitsu announced its plans to withdraw support for its Trimetra mainframe line by the end of April 2006.
Paymaster's mission-critical banking suite was the last remaining application on its Trimetra mainframe and running such an important system on an unsupported platform was not an option for Paymaster.
By moving to a Windows server, the company has not just eliminated this problem, it has also dramatically improved batch performance and job automation, enabling its evening batch to complete three hours earlier.
"The savings we have been able to make of around 300,000 pounds per annum gave us our expected return on investment in just ten months.
However, the performance improvements took us by surprise, with our batch processes completing 10 to 30 times faster running under Micro Focus COBOL on a small two CPU server.
The project has been a total success for us and has given us the confidence to really drive ahead with further developments," said Ralph Tigwell, chief technology officer, Paymaster.
"We are pleased to assist Paymaster in its application modernization strategy," said Stuart McGill, chief technology officer at Micro Focus.
"Too many companies, unlike Paymaster, underestimate the value of their core systems when looking at ways to improve operational efficiency and business agility." About Paymaster Paymaster (1836) Ltd (previously the Office of the Paymaster General) is one of the largest providers of outsourced financial services in the UK.
Established in 1836 to co-ordinate the payment functions for public sector organisations, in particular pensions and payroll administration, Paymaster became part of Hogg Robinson plc in 1997 and subsequently Xafinity Ltd in July 2005.
Since 1997 it has provided services for both public and private sector companies.
Paymaster provides pensions administration and payroll services for some of the largest schemes in the UK.
It covers all aspects of DB and DC pension scheme and annuity administration.
Its pension payroll services make payments totalling more than GBP 7 billion to over 1.5 million pensioners and their dependants, in 189 countries throughout the world.
About Micro Focus Micro Focus provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications.
Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk.
For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.
The very latest perspectives, expertise and developments from Customers, Partners and Micro Focus are under one roof at Micro Focus World 2007.
For more information visit: www.microfocusworld.com.
Labels: banks, costs, europe, finance, microsoft, migration, uk, vme
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Is there a mainframe skills shortage?
Is there a mainframe skills shortage?
Joe Clabby, 28 Mar 2007
"I've got a lot of respect for much of the market research that Gartner produces -- but in this case I believe that Gartner is just plain wrong. In a recent research note, "Impact of Generational IT Skill Shift on Legacy Applications", Gartner suggests that a pending, projected decrease in mainframe-skilled individuals may be a reason to migrate to other, "more-modern application platforms".
The logic is that as baby-boomer mainframe coders and administrators leave the workforce over the next five to seven years, mainframe shops (particularly the smaller ones) are going to have great difficulty managing their mainframe environments or maintaining legacy COBOL code. Thus, IT executives should start planning to go to other platforms"...
However, Joe does not feel the analysis and logic are not correct. Read the full article from here to know his perspectives @ Tech Target
Joe Clabby, 28 Mar 2007
"I've got a lot of respect for much of the market research that Gartner produces -- but in this case I believe that Gartner is just plain wrong. In a recent research note, "Impact of Generational IT Skill Shift on Legacy Applications", Gartner suggests that a pending, projected decrease in mainframe-skilled individuals may be a reason to migrate to other, "more-modern application platforms".
The logic is that as baby-boomer mainframe coders and administrators leave the workforce over the next five to seven years, mainframe shops (particularly the smaller ones) are going to have great difficulty managing their mainframe environments or maintaining legacy COBOL code. Thus, IT executives should start planning to go to other platforms"...
However, Joe does not feel the analysis and logic are not correct. Read the full article from here to know his perspectives @ Tech Target
Labels: expertise, mainframes, migration
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