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AFFINA 
| Retail Customer Service, Call Center Support
With seven customer contact centers across North America, AFFINA handled thousands of online IBM® CICS® transactions and batch programs each day on its central inbound customer relationship management application. By migrating its essential application programs and data to open systems using UniKix rehosting software, AFFINA lowered annual IT expenditures by $100,000 per month, reduced batch processing time by 30%, and reduced staffing needs by 75%.
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Antex
| Outsourced HR Services
By moving its legacy payroll applications to an open systems environment Antex was able to reduce TCO by 45% with a payback period of 12 months. Antex redirected the savings gained through its mainframe migration project towards acquiring new resources and customer expansion.
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Atos Origin
| Application and IT Outsourcing
Atos Origin was looking to reduce costs and evolve the technology offerings of its outsourced financial services payment processing and customer loyalty applications. By moving these critical Adabas and Natural-based application packages from the mainframe to open systems with UniKix technology Atos Origin reduced annual operating costs by 50% and freed up significant processing capacity for future growth.
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Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie
| Retail Banking
In an increasingly competitive industry, the largest private bank in Tunisia was faced with providing faster, better service to its customers in order to retain market share. Rehosting its mainframe batch workload to open systems greatly reduced BIAT's TCO and enhanced performance. |
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BNP Paribas | Retail Banking
BNP Paribas, one of the largest banks in the world, simplified its IT reporting requirements and reduced costs by moving its mission critical mainframe-based online applications to UniKix rehosting technology from Clerity. |
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Böhler Edelstahl | Manufacturing
Faced with growing maintenance costs on an outsourced z900 mainframe and an inflexible IT system, Böhler Edelstahl rehosted its custom application, making it easier to adapt to changing market requirements and reducing its annual software licensing and operational costs by 50%. |
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Caisse Nationale de Compensation des Cotisations de Sécurité Sociale des Voyageurs, Représentants et Placiers de Commerce à Cartes Multiples (CCVRP) | Government Agency
The need to rein in skyrocketing mainframe operating costs, preserve an essential benefit management application, and open up opportunities for new services to users were motivating factors in CCVRP’s decision to seek a solution to replace its inflexible legacy environment.
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Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale (CNSS) | Government Agency
When the Tunisian National Social Security System was looking to lower annual operational costs and increase IT flexibility, it looked to UniKix rehosting technology from Clerity. With the assistance of UniKix software and implementation services from Clerity's partner Tunisie Micro Informatique, CNSS was able to complete its migration in just six months. |
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CedCamera | Government Agency
When this Italian government agency was looking to improve IT efficiency and significantly lower total operational costs, it chose to rehost applications using UniKix mainframe rehosting technology, which in turn produced both a cost savings of 70%, and a highly reliable open systems platform with improved performance and flexibility for the future. |
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Central Reserve Bank of Peru | Government Agency
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru found that its proprietary mainframe environment and disparate data sources were hindering its flexibility and market responsiveness. By rehosting its IBM® CICS® transactions and batch workload to open systems, the central reserve bank reduced annual IT expenditures by 50% and improved performance windows.
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Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha (CSO) | Insurance
UniKix mainframe rehosting software from Clerity allowed CSO to migrate its IBM® CICS® transactions, COBOL, Batch, and VSAM platform to an open systems environment with minimal rewriting or reengineering. After a three-week training course on the UniKix products, CSO's staff was quickly and thoroughly up-to-speed on the new system. |
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The Clearing Corporation | Financial Services, Exchange
The Clearing Corporation (TCC) chose UniKix software from Clerity to move its IDMS-based trade entry, inquiry, out-trade and reporting functionality to open systems. It was imperative that TCC's customer operations not be disrupted during this move. |
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Defense Manpower Data Center, Department of Defense | Government Agency
DMDC chose UniKix Transaction Processing Environment software from Clerity to move its existing legacy application without change from a mainframe to a distributed server and gained a high performance, stable, and more cost-effective environment. The open systems server environment offered close to 75% cost reduction over the mainframe - saving taxpayers $10 Million a year. |
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Europ Assistance Groupe | Healthcare, Insurance
Europ Assistance provides solutions for the safety and comfort needs of travelers and mobilizes resources for 6.5 million cases of assistance each year. Relying heavily on its IT system to connect travelers seeking assistance with the resources available to solve their dilemmas, Europ Assistance rehosted its mainframe workload to better integrate with Web applications, improve customer information services, and reduce costs.
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Ingegneria Sistemi Elaborazione Dati, S.p.A. | Application Outsourcing
Faced with new technology options, ISED moved to open systems platforms with UniKix technology in order to improve information resources and performance for its customers, as well as enhance Web access and lower cost. |
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IOOF Investment Management Limited | Investment Banking
Melbourne-based IOOF moved its online and batch mainframe workloads from a legacy environment to open systems. More than 250 users at several IOOF locations are served by the new system, which performs faster than the mainframe. Rehosting reduced the annual IT budget, giving IOOF additional resources to deploy in other areas of the business. |
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The Landrum Company | Retail Banking
When the Landrum Company, a Missouri-based bank holding company, wanted greater functionality than its legacy platform could provide, they turned to Kirchman Bankway from Retalix and UniKix rehosting technology for a cost-effective, open systems solution. |
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Lloyd's of London, Canada | Insurance
Lloyd's of London, the world's leading authority on risk solutions, chose UniKix mainframe rehosting technology to protect their huge investment in legacy software and move their critical business operations to cost-effective, flexible open systems. |
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Medavie Blue Cross | Insurance
Medavie Blue Cross selected a mainframe rehosting strategy with UniKix software from Clerity to move its essential legacy applications to an HP-UX open systems environment, creating a sophisticated and practical IT system to take the company into the next century.
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NYSE Euronext | Financial Services, Exchange
NYSE Euronext migrated a central mainframe-based clearing and settlement trading platform to open systems servers with UniKix Mainframe Rehosting Software from Clerity. This move, involving more than 10 million lines of code (98% rehosted without change), cut NYSE Euronext's cost-per-transaction rates in half.
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Parrini | Distribution
Parrini manages a complex logistics schedule to distribute nearly 900 popular magazines to 36,000 news stands, kiosks, and stores throughout Italy. As the diversity and number of publications distributed by Parrini grew in recent years, the company looked to UniKix technology to relieve its overloaded mainframe and IBM® DB2® database.
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Retalix | Retail
As part of Retalix’s efforts to meet the
specialized needs of its customer base, the company moved its BICEPS
Web-based technology to a system with Clerity Web Connect to enable flexible screen
customization options while providing a consistent look and feel to end-users
regardless of the specific browser and the application release version being
deployed.
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San Mateo County | Government Agency
San Mateo County selected Clerity to migrate its IBM® CICS® application servers, COBOL, IDEAL, and Datacom-based Criminal Justice Information System to open systems. This move is expected to reduce the County's annual operating costs over 30%. |
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Sony Italy | Manufacturing
As part of a strategic SAP initiative, Sony Italy turned to Clerity to provide an efficient and affordable, high-performance open systems environment. The company relied on UniKix Transaction Processing Environment software to quickly migrate its essential business applications from an outdated legacy system. |
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Towne Bank | Retail Banking
After considering several options, Towne Bank found that rehosting its Kirchman Bankway software in conjunction with Clerity would best meet their criteria which included ease of migration, scalability, fault tolerance, and lower cost of operations. |
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Transamerica Life Canada | Insurance
Using UniKix mainframe rehosting software and services from Clerity, Transamerica Life Canada (TLC) was able to migrate its existing applications from a mainframe to an open systems environment. This rehosting project reduced TLC's costs by more than 50%, achieved a payback period of just six months, and increased system performance by 25%. |
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Tunisian Post Office | Government Agency
Faced with increasing subscriber volumes and the desire to rapidly role out new, expanded services in an evolutionary environment, the Tunisian Post Office decided to rehost its key mainframe applications to open systems. |
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University of British Columbia | Education
When the University of British Columbia's mainframe system could not meet the needs of a modern university, the school turned to Clerity to create an online environment which provided timely information to all users and significantly reduced its total cost of operations. |
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Volkswagen México | Manufacturing
Volkswagen México, one of Volkswagen AG's largest manufacturing groups, upgraded its IT environment for more functionality and greater access. By transforming the company's infrastructure from a legacy mainframe to open systems environment with Clerity, VW México reduced processing time and lowered TCO. |
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Weyerhaeuser | Manufacturing
Weyerhaeuser, one of the world’s largest forest products companies, evaluated its IT infrastructure
in light of corporate objectives and made the decision to rehost a critical
Natural Adabas mainframe application to open systems. |
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