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We
are proud of our list of successful projects, which include:
Toronto
Police Service, Canada
migrate!LINC
migrate!COBOL
Toronto Police
Service is one of the largest municipal police forces in North America,
serving the City of Toronto. Toronto, the
largest city in Canada, has a population of more than 2.5 million
residents, and serves as Canada’s economic capital. MSS won the bid to migrate CASC, a critical legacy system, from
the Unisys mainframe to the standard IBM pSeries platform. This move
accomplished the goal of increasing flexibility, decreasing the high operating cost and eliminating
the risk of the lack of available technical expertise in the legacy
system. TPS have standardised on J2EE and saw the tremendous advantage
in the fully automated migration approach from LINC and COBOL to Java
(J2EE), XML and DB2.
TPS Press Release
JKB
Bank, Jordan
migrate!LINC
Jordan Kuwait
Bank, based in Amman, Jordan wished to move into the mainstream of
application development and engaged MSS to move its core banking
package from Linc to Oracle languages and database software using
migrate!LINC. JKB also had a significant body of Cobol code supporting
the ATM network. MSS rewrote this in Java as a precursor project to
creating the Cobol to Java path of migrate!COBOL automatic translation
software. JKB chose SUN to supply hardware and have configured a very
robust platform that has performed extremely well.
JKB Case Study
JKB letter of recommendation
Scottish
Life, UK
migrate!LINC, migrate!COBOL
Scottish Life wanted to modernise and reduce cost at the same
time. With the help of MSS they
evaluated different platform options and settled on HP Intanium/RISC
servers running HP-UX Unix. MSS migrated their very large Life policy
administration system – reputed to be the single largest Linc system in
the world – and their legacy Pensions system. The migrated applications are
performing excellently on the HP platform running against Oracle
database, and the Oracle development tools have enabled the programmers
to cut time-to-market application delivery significantly.
Case Study Scottish Life and HP.pdf
Scottish Life
letter of recommendation
KOC Bank,
Turkey
migrate!LINC
In 2003 Koçbank decided to lower their cost base by moving to Unix
equipment. MSS won the contract to license the use of migrate!LINC
technology to the Bank. MSS trained Koçbank staff on the use of this
tool for performing the migration to the SUN Solaris platform, Oracle
database and Oracle development tools. The screen handling was performed
by the bank’s own IT personnel using the MSS JSP library approach and
the batch code was migrated to SqC. The migration took 9 months and
involved a team of about 32 Koçbank staff - 22 IT and 10 Business
Integrators.
Case Study KOC.pdf
Migration Summary
CLAL,
Israel
migrate!COBOL
Migration of legacy COBOL systems from Unisys to open platform. The
systems were 17 years old, took hundreds of man years to build and
included a million lines of COBOL code with various infrastructure
tools. Due to strict time constraints this migration was to be
completed within 8 months - a task most people believed impossible.
CLAL chose MSS and HP Israel as partners to achieve this goal and the
result was an unqualified success!
Case Study CLAL.pdf
Migration Summary
View their letter of recommendation: CLAL.pdf
Express Newspapers,
UK
migrate!COBOL
Express Newspapers needed to migrate their legacy Unisys COBOL systems
to a Windows platform. This involved 8 COBOL systems, each with its own
database and highly technical home-grown interfaces and severe time and
performance demands.
The result of the migration is a reduction of £700,000 per annum in IT
Operational Expenditure.
Case Study
Express.pdf
Migration Summary
View their letter of recommendation: Express Letter.pdf
ING/BBL,
Belgium
LINC upgrade migration project.
BBL is part of the ING group of companies. ING's goal was to port the
BBL IFS system to a standard Unix platform running the Unisys Linc
run-time environment. The main reasons for porting IFS were to conform
to Corporate IT guidelines, make future maintenance as easy as
possible, make future developments following open standards as easy as
possible and increase the location independence of the system. The
legacy LINC Unisys system was ported onto LDA on NT with the generated
system using an Oracle database, running on Unix. MSS's technical
knowledge in identifying the necessary changes in the LINC system,
porting of the 3GL interfaces from Cobol and Algol to Cobol and C and
the WFL to Shell script, ensured the flawless conversion and made the
transition far easier. The MSS toolkit proved invaluable during the
testing phase. The testing methodology highlighted all differences and
ensured the integrity of the ported code.
Migration Summary
View their letter of recommendation: BBL.pdf
Chester
County Courthouse, USA
migrate!LINC
Chester County Courthouse of West Chester, Pennsylvania have several
administration and information systems that were originally written in
LINC and run on an A18 machine. The Courthouse asked MSS to convert
these systems to native Oracle in order to save cost and also to fit in
with other systems running on Open platforms. The initial choice for an
operating system was SCO running on a Compaq PC Server. However, to fit
with an emerging IBM AIX strategy, the application was ported to an IBM
AIX platform. Because the application was in standard Oracle form,
designed to be very portable, the move to AIX was almost trivial.
Migration Summary
View their letter of
recomendation: Chester County Letter.pdf
Teachers
Assurance, UK
migrate!LINC
Teachers Assurance is the Bournemouth, England based financial
organisation specialising in providing financial products to education
professionals. Teachers had invested £8m in developing a sophisticated
Life & Pensions application in LINC. This ran on an A12 platform
which was due to become obsolete in 1999. The IT strategy adopted by
Teachers from the mid-1990s was to move to a common NT-based
architecture, and by 1998 only the core Life & Pensions application
was still running on a mainframe. When the converted system was
implemented on Tulip PC Servers Teachers realised immediate savings in
cost of hardware, software and maintenance over continuing with a
mainframe strategy. But the main benefit was in interoperability and
integration of the system with others based on similar technology.
Migration Summary
View their letter of recommendation:
Teachers.pdf
AAR, USA
migrate!LINC
AAR Corporation engaged MSS International to perform a joint migration
of their IMOPS systems in Chicago from a Unix LINC Environment to a
Unix ORACLE Forms, PL/SQL and C environment, with AAR providing a high
calibre of experienced Unix & ORACLE Administration staff to assist
where necessary.
The migration of the Chicago system was a such a great success that AAR
decided to also migrate 3 other individual systems in Amsterdam.
Oklahoma and New York, initially targeted for redevelopment.
Migration Summary
View their letter of recommendation:
AAR_Ref.pdf
Read an interview with IBM:
AAR_IBM_Interview.pdf
For confidentiality reasons, a full list of clients is
not shown.
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