Anubex successfully completes IDMS migration for Northeastern University

Anubex, a leader in automated application modernization, is pleased to announce it has successfully completed an IDMS migration project for a large Northeastern U.S. university. Anubex helped the university modernize their IT platform from a mainframe/IDMS DB environment to an Oracle DB environment. In the process, the university was able to retain their application assets and improve the openness of their historical and current student enrolment data.

The university took the decision to consolidate their underlying IT platforms after conducting an objective assessment of their application portfolio. In the process, the university discovered three weaknesses in its mainframe-based applications: First, it was difficult to manage and access data in the mainframe IDMS database and the COBOL VSAM files. Second, the university was faced with skills shortages since staff able to maintain and support the IDMS legacy applications on an IBM MVS mainframe is increasingly difficult to find. And third, costs for running the mainframe apps (the total cost of ownership) were unacceptably high.

From this exercise grew the "Mainframe Retirement" project, a project that had as objective the elimination of the university’s dependency on the mainframe platform. The university took the decision to engage Anubex after a thorough study of the application modernization solutions available in the marketplace.

Anubex was able to complete the migration project within the agreed deadlines, including the transformation of both the IDMS database and the COBOL VSAM files, thanks to its proven suite of conversion tools and unique project approach.

At the university, the project was hailed a success. According to the Director of Administrative Application Services, "Anubex provided a superior solution for our IDMS migration project. The Anubex staff was professional, accommodating, and efficient. Our project was completed within budget and exceeded our expectations."

Anubex is pleased with the result. Louis Heymans, Managing Director of the Belgian company, said, "Although most of our migrations take place outside Belgium, this is the second time we have been successful at winning and completing a migration in the United States. We are in touch with a number of other companies in North America and we hope to win two or three projects there in the coming year."

"In the United States, software applications tend to be less complex than in Europe, although data volumes tend to be larger," continues Heymans. "Thanks to our specialized software tools and unique methodologies, we are consistently able to reach and exceed 99% automation in our projects."

About Anubex
Anubex provides solutions for the modernization of large and complex legacy applications at various companies and government agencies around the world. Anubex makes exclusive use of a proven methodology and specialized software to optimize the reuse of existing applications while automatically transforming the software code and data to the latest technologies. Several of its customers are in the Fortune Global 500. Anubex was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium with an office in Sacramento (USA). For more information on Anubex, visit www.anubex.com .

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