Case Studies

Property Management Firm Migrates from Mainframe to Windows, Cuts Costs 60 Percent, Ups Speed

"There is so much we can do now that our central system has been migrated from the mainframe to the Windows platform. We have only begun to explore the possibilities—and the impact on our people and our customers." Allan Hansson, Information Technology Program Manager, Stockholmshem “With the Windows-based solution, Stockholmshem is enjoying more performance than it [...]

LBBW

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is Germany’s fifth largest bank, providing commercial banking and trading services under its own brand. LBBW also delivers bank processing and trading services for smaller banks throughout Germany, providing a full array of financial services. Business Challenges LBBW, like most financial services companies, was challenged with what to do with its existing [...]

Cruise Line Migrates to .NET, Slashes IT Budget by 80 Percent

Luxury cruise line Crystal Cruises operated its ships with aging IBM 3090 mainframes that were tough to integrate with other systems, expensive and slow to operate—and about to fall out of service. To reduce the time, cost, and risk of migration, Crystal Cruise chose to port its custom code to a Microsoft® ASP.NET solution using [...]

Data Center Saves $16 million a Year With NetCOBOL and NeoTools

Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC) helps small and medium-sized banks compete with larger ones by providing competitive IT services at an affordable price. To maintain its long-term viability, SDC is moving its core banking system from an IBM mainframe to the Microsoft Application Platform. By doing so, SDC can deliver 99.8 percent availability, increase agility, and [...]

Organizational Tool Manufacturer Cuts Costs by 94 Percent with NetCOBOL and NeoTools

Day-Timer, the world-renowned maker of personal productivity tools, wanted to increase its own productivity by reducing costs—including the U.S.$725,000 annual cost of the mainframe on which it ran its business. The company migrated its ERP software to Windows Server® and the Microsoft® .NET Framework, using tools from Alchemy Solutions. The result cut costs by 94 [...]

Publisher Slashes IT Budget by 80 Percent with NeoTools

Publishing giant Simon & Schuster needed to accelerate every aspect of its business, from authoring to getting books into the hands of customers. But it was still managing its order fulfillment and distribution processes on an aging mainframe that kept business processes slow, inflexible, and costly. So, the company ported its mainframe applications to Windows [...]

County Court Saves $700k Yearly with NetCOBOL and NeoTools

"By porting the application with NetCOBOL for .NET we improved the performance and maintained the transactional integrity of the original application.Our costs are now a fraction of what they were before. One of the most gratifying aspects of going to a distributed environment using NetCOBOL for .NET was the minimal training required by both the [...]

Energy Provider Converts its MIS System to Microsoft with Significant Gains in Performance

"We felt that our developers would get more done in less time, and there would be a greater likelihood of reuse down the road. The costs would have been prohibitive had we stayed with the legacy system." Stephen Jeffers, Chief Technology Officer, SSE, Scottish & Southern Energy “We had all the right people with the [...]

European Insurance Giant Reduces Cost and Boosts Performance with NeoKicks

"Interpolis found greater flexibility and up to 30% better performance while reducing their TCO by 20% in the first year." Faced with the challenge of keeping the core administration system for their civil insurance business up-to-date and within budgetary constraints, Interpolis determined that moving to Microsoft’s .NET Framework was the most efficient, secure and cost [...]

Government Agency Gains New Functionality with NetCOBOL and NeoTools

"The migration (or better re-engineering) process is aimed at transforming present AS/400 COBOL applications so that their functions can be executed on the .NET platform, allowing further evolution based on a consistent multilevel architecture. The application knowledge (business rules) will continue to be maintained inside INPS, leveraging present personnel skills."  Alfredo D’Amato, INPS Software Infrastructure [...]