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Business Applications migration allows HBA to make annual savings of $2 million
 By migrating its legacy assets, HBA is now ready to take advantage of a modernisedWeb services infrastructure to improve customer service levels and further reduce ITcosts, explain Huw Price, Managing Director of m2o. With more than a millionmembers, HBA is one of Australia's major health insurers and part of worldwidehealth and care company, BUPA. When BUPA acquired HBA in 2003, it separated all keysystems from its previous owner (AXA) to establish its own computer functions and ITservices in Melbourne. The final transfer was the migration of BOSS - the coreadministration and service system of the business - from a mainframe located in NewYork to a UNIX Sun Solaris system in Australia.
UNIX migration reduces costs, maintains reliability and minimises impact on business
Time was a crucial consideration in the migration.  Many options were considered,including creating a like-for-like system in Australia, or using the BUPA parentsystem as a base for the new system, said Peter Powell, CIO, HBA Australia. However, none of these options really matched our requirements or fitted into thetime available.Â
After considering a number of different options, HBA chose i2c from m2o to automatethe conversion of CA-IDEAL to Micro Focus Cobol and the migration of CA-DATACOM toOracle. The migration had minimal impact to existing business processes and ISdevelopment staff and resulted in significant savings.
 The savings we're making by migrating our applications to UNIX are beingre-invested to improve services to our members, said Powell.  It also gives us amodern platform and the means to establish further Web services down the track. Thesoftware and hardware migration was completed in 14 months and went live in January2005. Powell estimates a Return on Investment of just under three years for themigration which saw the conversion of six million lines of code and tens ofthousands of files .BUPA has also found the new UNIX-based system just as reliableas the old mainframe platform.
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.
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