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Modern Systems Meets Major Project Milestone with US Media Company
Modern Systems and a large US-based media organization have been engaging in the conversion of a massive legacy system responsible for order management and billing. The system consisted primarily of COBOL and VSAM, and our customer wished to migrate away from the mainframe to a modern environment running Java with Oracle DB.
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Incompatible: When New Applications Can’t Handle Old Data
Modern Systems has been working with the UK Government and their partners to move some highly critical and sensitive security data away from IDMS databases to modern platforms such as SQL Server on Azure. In addition to transforming and archiving the data, Modern Systems provided views to allow the data to be queried and utilized going forward. Transforming the data from IDMS to Relational has allowed the mainframe it was residing on to be retired, saving a large sum of money.
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Modern Systems & Global QA Partner Bring Welcome Change to Insurance Firm
Modern Systems partnered with a large quality assurance testing company to modernize part of a massive system for a North American insurance company. Modern Systems converted the existing COBOL code to Java as part of a larger modernization project, then turned it over to our partner for testing and implementation within the context of the larger system. The insurer will continue to make changes to the Java and re-engineer the code as they see fit as time goes on. They chose Modern Systems for the legacy modernization work because of the maintainability of our automated conversion solution’s output. The end goal was to reduce dependency on COBOL knowledge, allow for reduced cost of change, and provide better scalability, portability, and flexibility. Modern Systems successfully moved the insurer from the mainframe COBOL-based platform to a mid-range Java-based platform.
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Modern Systems Automated Conversion Shines On The Proving Grounds
Modern Systems recently demonstrated the successful, maintainable, and scalable conversion of ADS/Online and COBOL code to C# paired with SQL Server for a US Government entity. This proof of concept spanned multiple systems and acts as a catalyst for establishing strategy for a broader business unit initiative for legacy systems modernization.
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Modern Systems Partners with UST Global to Launch Progressive Transformational ‘Modernization Lab’ for Enterprise Customers in Silicon Valley
Aliso Viejo, California, March 23, 2017 — UST Global has just announced that they will launch an evolutionary ‘Modernization Lab’ in Silicon Valley, California, in May […]
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It Turns Out, IDMS Success Is Keyless
Modern Systems has developed a solution that automatically determines where IDMS DB Keys are used in application code. In most cases it can also make required code updates while automatically flagging any that require additional manual attention during modernization to relational.
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Government Agency Taps Modern Systems to Transform CA Gen to Java
Exciting news from Sweden! A large government agency recently tapped Modern Systems to transform a massive CA Gen environment to Java. The project kicked off recently and will be managed and staffed by team members from across the globe. Our extensive history modernizing legacy systems for government agencies such as Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, Singapore Land Authority, US Department of Energy, and many others, combined with our industry-leading CA Gen modernization solution, made the decision to engage with Modern Systems an easy one. Stay tuned for updates as we work to liberate our Scandinavian friends from the land of legacy!
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UK Government Agency Wraps Up a String of Legacy Modernization Projects
Great news from the UK! Modern Systems recently wrapped up a large set of legacy modernization projects with a UK government agency that went live in January.
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