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Automated conversion speeds up migration away from the Mainframe environment
The existing mainframe system at Allgaier lacked flexibility.  The move fromtraditional Mainframe Systems to Server based solutions is becoming a popular way toachieve cost savings and increase application performance and availability, comments Huw Price, Managing Director of m2o. The new ERP solution helped Allgaierto reduce costs dramatically. Expenditure on hardware in particular is now muchlower. The migration from an IBM Multiprise 3000 to Windows Servers took 13 monthsin total.
In order to make a clean start on the new ERP solution, Allgaier decided to keepsome old material and project data on the mainframe for up to two years. This provedto be very expensive, because it was necessary to keep an IBM-T3-Server going andall the software licences running. As a consequence, Allgaier decided to migratethis project data to Oracle as well. With the help of Saxonia Systems AG and the I2Ctool from m2o the data was migrated from CA-Datacom to Oracle and the programs weretranslated from CA-IDEAL to Micro Focus COBOL in one month.
Application behaves exactly the same as it did on the Mainframe
Ensuring the application behaved the same as it did on the Mainframe was a priority.At the same time the environment had to still be familiar to end users to minimisedisruption. The 'historic' project programs are now running on Windows 2003 serversand the application behaves exactly as it did on the mainframe. The changes have notaffected end users at all, and application performance has even improved after themigration.  The cost savings of not having to renew a Datacom licence or maintain anIBM-T3-server have been significant, concludes Huw Price. Because there has been nodisruptive change for end-users Allgaier has not incurred any additional costs ordelays relating to re-training.
About Allgaier
Allgaier is a systems supplier in the metal forming sector of the automotiveindustry, producing pressed parts and ready-for-installation components and formingtools for car bodywork parts. Due to its extremely high performance potential, theAllgaier Group plays a leading role worldwide in the area of sheet-metal forming.The Allgaier Group is the largest European manufacturer of industrial screeningmachines, with customers throughout the world. The Allgaier Group employs 1.758persons, of which 1.371 are located at the group headquarters in Uhingen, nearGÃ ppingen in south-west Germany. The group also has production and sales companiesin Germany and abroad and maintains sales offices in all important industrialcountries. Website address: www.allgaier.de/unternehmen/?e n
About Move2open
m2o is a leading provider of data migration and application conversion solutionsthat unlock the value of relational databases and legacy systems. m2o specializes intransforming legacy applications, including automated conversions from CA-IDEAL toopen languages such as COBOL and Java and migrations from CA-Datacom to opendatabases such as CA-Ingres, Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. m2o provides automatedconversion tools and migration services that offer wide platform coverage,exceptional accuracy and clear Return on Investment that are unmatched by any othervendor or solution. m2o has over ten years experience with a worldwide customer baseof blue-chip organizations that benefit from its unique expertise and automatedtools.
Contact Details
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