Business Challenge

Problem Statement

One of Japan’s largest securities firm wanted the Business-critical trading and securities applications batch system migrated and integrated into an open environment, with a goal of reducing overall TCO. Their end goal was to move to a modern agile platform, enabling rapid response to internal and external changes and same time quickly get ROI.

Business Challenge 

  • Successfully Migrated one of Japan’s largest securities firm from mainframe to OpenFrame with ~60% TCO reduction.
  • Of the 400 NRL projects, this was the only project completed before the deadline (10 months) and within budget.
  • Developed the infrastructure enabling rapid response to internal and external changes.
  • The project results in reduced development time and costs involved in the target environment.
  • Existing human resources already trained and accustomed to the mainframe applications easily migrated to the new systems with minimal retraining.

The Solution

Environment Prior/After Rehosting

Existing

  • Software Environment: MVS, IMS/DB, PL/I, COBOL, VSAM
  • 3375 Batch jobs, 2161 PL/I copies
  • ~200 MIPS

Target Solution

  • OpenFrame, Tmax (TP-Monitor), Tibero, OpenStudio, SysMaster

Industry

Financial

Cost Savings

40%

Conversion

+20%

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