Nabisco is an international manufacturer of biscuits, snacks and other food products. Nabisco brands are recognized around the world, including such well-known items as RITZ and PREMIUM crackers, PLANTERS nuts, CHIPS AHOY! and FIG NEWTONS cookies, LIFE SAVERS candies, GREY POUPON mustard, MILK-BONE dog snacks, and the world's best-selling cookies: OREO cookies!
Nabisco produces more than a quarter-million cookies and crackers per minute, selling approximately 1.25 billion pounds of cookies and crackers annually!
Nabisco employs more than 53,000 workers worldwide. The Wilkes-Barre data center is responsible for the corporate financial systems.
Nabisco had a problem -- many among its user community were not familiar with mainframe applications. Nabisco considered the old solutions: either spend time training those users on the old technology, or expend considerable resources to update the legacy applications.
Al Kane, Nabisco Systems Programmer, had another idea. At the CICS Technical Conference, he'd seen a demonstration of an innovative product suite that offered a better solution: VisualConnect.
Nabisco required a solution that would: drastically reduce the learning curve for its employees by making the applications user-friendly, and retain the power and dependability of CICS to manage the applications, while utilizing the development skills of the existing CICS applications programmers.
Using VisualConnect, says Kane, "We were able to deliver CICS applications with a point-and-click GUI interface that the user community liked very much." The GUI interfaces were created without any modification to the existing application code. CICS application programmers can Web-enable both new and existing applications with ease.
While Nabisco was solving one problem with VisualConnect, they found that a different product from GT Software was the answer to another dilemma!
