Chicago, IL – June 21, 2010 – Clerity, a full-service provider of mainframe migration, modernization, and optimization solutions, today said that BNP Paribas has signed a new three-year support agreement for Clerity's UniKix Mainframe Rehosting software. BNP Paribas has used UniKix for more than a decade to deploy its valued legacy banking applications on cost-effective, dependable open systems.
BNP Paribas, a global banking and financial services leader operating in 84 countries, leverages Clerity software to provide online core banking services at more than 65 subsidiaries worldwide.
"Using Clerity's UniKix Mainframe Rehosting software allows us to deploy our ATLAS II in-house integrated banking system on an affordable, reliable platform across the globe," said Stéphane Uhl, group manager at BNP Paribas. "We continue to be pleased by the ongoing evolution of UniKix technology and responsiveness of the Clerity support team."
As a UniKix customer for more than fifteen years, BNP Paribas benefits from Clerity's powerful mainframe rehosting runtime environment. The UniKix technology offers several advantages to the banking leader:
- Reduced IT complexity by deploying a single, consolidated mainframe alternative software infrastructure at hundreds of branch locations;
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by streamlining support and reporting requirements on cost-effective open systems servers; and
- Enhanced quality of service, by operating a scalable, flexible platform designed to meet future business needs, integration requirements, and workload growth projections.
Today, BNP Paribas supports between 100 to 1,500 concurrent online users at each of its branch locations. The bank has tested Clerity's mainframe rehosting software with more than 6,000 online users running 1.5 million complex operations per day, giving BNP Paribas the confidence that UniKix will successfully support the company's future growth requirements.
"BNP Paribas' renewed relationship with Clerity provides further evidence of the strategic value of our end-to-end mainframe rehosting software and service offerings," noted Cameron Jenkins, COO of Clerity. "We are committed to providing the most complete mainframe migration and modernization portfolio to help global organizations like BNP Paribas lower cost and enhance customer value."
Clerity's UniKix Mainframe Rehosting software provides a robust environment for migrating and maintaining mission-critical mainframe workloads on open systems. The solution, which includes
UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (TPE) and
UniKix Batch Processing Environment (BPE) software, is deployed at over 1,300 production sites worldwide. By preserving investments in custom environments such as IBM® CICS® applications, COBOL programs, and batch code, UniKix provides a proven path forward for organizations in industries such as financial services where IT plays a key role in delivering competitive market advantage.
