“The MSS professionals were the leaders of this extraordinary project. Their superb professionalism and dedication alongside the uncompromising decisiveness to make it work created the basis for the infrastructure for our current system".
Hanoch Ben-David, CTO of Clal Insurance Pension and Financial Group - Israel.
“We are experiencing a rapid ROI as we have effectively halved the operating costs of our Scottish Life systems. In addition we have dramatically improved performance, increased the quality of service to our customers and implemented a contemporary IT infrastructure that helps us respond faster to the business.”
Ian Chapple, IT Director, Royal London Group, UK
“With a relatively small investment we now have seen a reduction of IT Operational expenditure of at least £700,000 per annum, are now not locked in to a single, proprietary supplier and have opened a world of possibilities to enhance the systems further”
Steve Draper, IT Director, Express Newspapers
IBM has a long standing relationship with MSS. Across the world, we have taken many customers from Unisys DMSII to DB2 as well as to the IBM mainframe and AIX. We have engaged with and through IBM on many projects from Ford (automotive) and Argos (Retail) in the UK to Morgan Guaranty (now JP Morgan) in New York and the Toronto Police Service.
The IBM enterprise modernization approach is one of continuous improvement that enables customers to revitalize applications, leverage existing and new skills, unify teams and optimize infrastructure. Organizations around the world are focusing on best practices that streamline both costs and processes to divert dollars and resources to new projects that result in new revenue generation and business success.
IBM is an MQConnect partner. Our MQConnect product provides Unisys Clearpath NX applications the ability to fully participate in the message processing world of IBM MQSeries.
Oracle has a long standing relationship with MSS. We have taken many of our customers to Oracle database, including Erste Bank in Croatia, Clal Insurance in Israel and Chester County Courthouse in the United States. MSS is a member of The Oracle Modernization Alliance (OMA). The OMA brings together vendors with the best products, processes, solutions, and architectures for IT Modernization to open systems.
The OMA categorizes its members into a number of areas based on the type of vendor solution as well as the type of offering. At the highest level, this consists of three main areas based on their core offering: System Integrators, Modernization Vendors and Modernization Technology Providers. MSS is in the latter group and wherever Unisys opportunities arise, we are the Automated Migration Partner of choice.
For many years, MSS has worked with HP on delivering highly complex migration projects taking a number of our customers to the HP target environment. As a hardware partner we have worked with them on projects such as Reilly Industries (a pharmaceutical business in the United States), Express Newspapers in the UK, Clal Insurance in Israel and one of our largest projects: Scottish Life Insurance (part of The Royal London Group in The UK).
Micro Focus is a long standing software supplier to MSS. We have taken many of our customers to Micro Focus Cobol, including Erste Bank in Croatia, Clal Insurance in Israel & Express Newspapers in the United kingdom. Micro Focus Cobol is our Cobol of choice for the majority of our Cobol to Cobol migrations.
MSS is a member of The Micro Focus Migration and Transformation Consortium (MTC). MTC is a global coalition of companies that specialize in helping organizations maximize the value of their existing systems through migration and transformation using a combination of specialist technology and recognized expertise.
In the past three decades, MSS has performed a number migrations taking customers to Sun as their target machine. These customers include ING Bank (Belgium), Jordan Kuwait Bank, Koc Bank (Istanbul) and The Cape of Good Hope Bank in South Africa.
MSS has worked with Practical Transitions on delivery of US based projects. Based in Indiana, Practical Transitions has a proven track record successfully executing technology transitions and legacy modernization projects. Their team has been performing IT legacy modernization projects since 1985. Robert Reutz and his team are experts in analyzing current applications, technology requirements and project plan delivery.
HTWC is a technology specialist whose focus is the migration and re-hosting of Legacy applications from Mainframe onto open systems platforms. They underline the immense importance of the proprietary nature and seamless compatibility of their suite of products and tools designed for end to end Migration products.
