The following are a selection of mainframe migration customer success stories.
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AFFINA (PDF)
After 25 years of relying on a mainframe-based system, AFFINA has moved into its next generation of service to customers on open systems, and selected HP-UX as the foundation for its important inbound customer relationship management application. The company migrated its trusted and essential applications easily and efficiently from the CICS mainframe platform to open systems using UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE) software and UniKix Batch Processing Environment (UniKix BPE) software from Clerity. AFFINA reduced annual IT expenditures by $100,000 per month, reduced batch processing time by 30 percent, and reduced staffing needs by 75 percent.
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Antex (PDF)
By replacing the costly mainframe with an open systems environment, anchored by powerful, flexible Sun Fire servers, 40-year-old Italian company Antex was able to reduce TCO by 45 percent. With an ROI of 12 months, the savings has quickly been earmarked to add resources to market and customer expansion.
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Banque Internationale Arabede Tunisie (BIAT) (PDF)
In an increasingly competitive banking industry, the largest private bank in Tunisia was faced with providing faster, better service to its customers in order to retain market share. BIAT's mainframe was limiting the bank's expansion and service capabilities and selected Sun to restructure its IT system due to its previous successes in migrating legacy applications from mainframes to UNIX servers. |
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BNP Paribas (BNPP) (PDF)
BNP Paribas, one of the largest banks in the world, needed its IT system to support the
international banking customers of 60 subsidiaries around the globe. The bank's first
challenge was to develop a single infrastructure and application, a difficult task because
the subsidiaries varied in size and IT systems ranged from mainframes to UNIX servers. The
second challenge was to improve customer service by creating an intranet linking the
worldwide facilities through universal access to the Web. |
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Böhler Edelstahl (PDF)
Faced with growing maintenance costs on an outsourced z900 mainframe and an inflexible IT system, Böhler Edelstahl decided to rehost its custom application. |
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Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale (CNSS) (PDF)
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 6 months. |
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CedCamera (PDF)
The challenge for this Italian government agency was to improve the efficiency of the IT system, and at the same time, significantly lower the cost of IT operations. As an alternative to costly mainframe operation, CedCamera chose to rehost their applications on Sun's open systems platform, 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 (PDF)
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (also known as Banco Central de Reserva del Peru or 'BCRP') found that its proprietary mainframe environment and disparate data sources were hindering its flexibility and market responsiveness. By rehosting its CICS and batch workload to open systems with UniKix Transaction Processing Environment and UniKix Batch Processing Environment software from Clerity, BCRP reduced its annual IT expenditures by 50%, redirected savings towards new IT initiatives and improved performance windows as well.
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Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha (CSO) (PDF)
UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE) software and UniKix Batch Processing Environment (UniKix BPE) software from Clerity allowed CSO to transition to the open UNIX environment (Sun Fire V880 server) with minimal rewriting or reengineering of mainframe applications. After a three-week training course on the UniKix TPE/BPE products, CSO's staff was quickly and thoroughly brought up-to-speed. |
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Defense Manpower Data Center, Department of Defense (PDF)
Migrating from Mainframe to Sun Solaris Saves Taxpayers $10 Million Annually: Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) chose UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE) software from Clerity to migrate their existing legacy application without change from a mainframe to a Sun Enterprise 10000 server, and gained a high performance, stable, and more cost-effective environment. This Sun server offered close to 75 percent cost reduction over the mainframe. |
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Europ Assistance (PDF)
As the premier travel assistance provider in Europe and around the world, Europ Assistance provides solutions for the safety and comfort needs of travelers. Through an efficient network of contacts around the world, Europ Assistance mobilizes resources for 6.5 million cases of assistance each year. The operation relies heavily on its IT system to connect travelers seeking assistance with the resources available to solve their dilemmas. Europ Assistance wanted to integrate a Web application to improve its information services for customers. In addition, after years of operating a costly mainframe environment, the IT staff wanted more control over the IT environment, without being tied into expensive upgrades for long periods.
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Ingegneria Sistemi Elaborazione Dati, S.p.A. (ISED) (PDF)
Faced with new technology options, ISED needed to move to open systems platforms in order to continue to deliver high performance systems and improved information resources to its customers. With the mainframe migration project completed, ISED and its customers are now able to develop new applications on the more efficient, less costly open systems platform. |
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IOOF Investment Management Limited (PDF)
Melbourne-based IOOF moved from an IBM mainframe solution to open systems. IOOF utilizes domain technology on a Sun Fire(TM) 4800 server to run both existing legacy applications in one domain and a new funds investment application in another domain, with full disaster recovery and backup capability. More than 250 users at several IOOF locations are served by the new system, which performs faster than the mainframe. In addition, IOOF has achieved better or equivalent availability on the Solaris(TM) Operating System. 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 (PDF)
When the Landrum Company, a Missouri-based bank holding company, wanted greater functionality than its existing platform could provide, they turned to Kirchman Corporation and Sun for a cost-effective, open systems solution. Kirchman rehosted Landrum's existing applications and data to the Solaris Operating Environment version of its Kirchman Bankway software, meeting all of Landrum s goals and expectations, including a one-weekend transition to the new system with substantial cost savings and performance improvements. |
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Lloyd's of London, Canada (PDF)
Lloyd's of London is without a doubt the world's leading authority on risk solutions. So when Lloyd's, Canada approached planning for a more flexible IT system and faster information access, they chose UniKix technology to protect their huge investments in legacy software and move their critical business operations to cost-effective, flexible open systems. |
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Metavante (Kirchman Corporation) (PDF)
Metavante turned to Clerity Solutions to rehost its Bankway application onto open systems without the time, expense, and risk of rewriting. UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE) software from Clerity allowed Metavante to rehost the comprehensive banking application onto Sun servers. This has allowed Metavante customers to reduce software, maintenance, and operations expenses and still continue running their banking operations on the proven Metavante Bankway software. |
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Medavie Blue Cross (PDF)
Medavie Blue Cross selected a mainframe rehosting strategy and chose UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE) software from Clerity to move its essential legacy applications from the mainframe to an HP-UX open systems environment, creating a sophisticated and practical IT system to take the company into the next century. While Metavie Blue Cross spent $6 million on hardware and software for the migration, after the payback period ended, they are experiencing $3 million in annual savings over the outsourced mainframe.
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Parrini (PDF)
From corporate offices in Rome and Milan, Parrini manages a complex logistics schedule to distribute nearly 900 popular magazines to 36,000 news stands, kiosks, and stores throughout Italy. The operation requires immense coordination, fueled by a steady flow of supplier, shipping, and customer information. More than 150 Italian publishers supply Parrini & C. S.p.A. (Parrini) with publications that cover a range of consumer topics of interest. As the diversity and number of publications grew in recent years, and dozens of retail outlets were added, it became more challenging for Parrini to manage this intricate web of publication schedules and deliveries with its slow, overloaded mainframe and DB2 database.
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Sony Italy (PDF)
Sony Italy turned to Clerity Solutions to provide an efficient and affordable, high-performance open systems environment, and relied on UniKix Transaction Processing Environment software to quickly and efficiently migrate its essential business applications from the outdated mainframe. By doing so, Sony Italy slashed annual IT expenses by more than half and recouped the initial project investment in less than a year. |
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TowneBank (PDF)
After considering several options, including the IBM iSeries server, TowneBank found that Clerity was the only vendor that could meet their criteria. The most important issues were ease of migration, scalability, fault tolerance, and low cost of operations. In their five year financial projections, TowneBank estimated that by using the Sun Fire V880 server, and running the Kirchman Bankway software with UniKix Transaction Processing Environment software from Clerity, the savings would amount to millions of dollars over a mainframe solution or the service bureau. |
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Transamerica Life Canada (TLC) (PDF)
Using UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE) software and UniKix Batch Processing Environment (UniKix BPE) software from Clerity, TLC was able to migrate existing applications from the mainframe to an open Sun server environment running the Solaris Operating System. This rehosting success reduced TLC's costs by more than 50%, achieved a ROI in just six months, and increased system performance by 25%. |
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Tunisian Post Office (PDF)
Faced with increasing subscriber volumes and the desire to rapidly role out new, expanded services, the Tunisian Post Office found its current IT system unable to efficiently keep up with market growth and changing requirements. Looking for a solution that would support all current functionality and enable an evolutionary path forward, the Tunisian Post Office decided to rehost its key mainframe applications to open systems. |
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University of British Columbia (PDF)
When the University of British Columbia's mainframe system became too expensive and could not meet the needs of a modern university, a new solution was needed. The University turned to Clerity Solutions to create an online environment to provide timely information to all users and, in doing so, significantly reduced the cost of IT operations. |
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Volkswagen de Mexico (PDF)
Staying competitive in the auto business means keeping on top of technology. Volkswagen de Mexico, one of Volkswagen AG's largest manufacturing groups, needed to upgrade its IT environment for more functionality, greater access, reduced processing time and lower cost than its mainframe system could provide. Gedas North America, which owns and runs VW de Mexico's data center, turned to Clerity for help in transforming the company's IT infrastructure from a mainframe environment to UNIX servers. |
