Legacy Modernization Case Studies
Find out how others have used and benefited from Alchemy Solutions products.
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Productivity Tools Maker Cuts Costs 94% with Move from Mainframe to Windows"Developers respond to updates ... at least 20 to 25 percent faster than before"Dennis Dorney, System Manager, Day-Timer
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Cruise Line Migrates from Mainframe to .NET, Speeds Performance, Enables New Processes"We're Cruising without our Mainframe"Boban Dragojilovic, Vice President of Computer Services, Crystal Cruises
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Mainframe-to-Windows Move Speeds Agility up to 300 Percent"We’re not only faster in all of our regular processes; it’s also easier for us to handle anything unusual. If a customer places a last-minute order that has to go out, it goes out. The technology no longer delays us until the next day, or requires us to do it manually, or at extra expense. We can react throughout the day and run orders into our warehouse as we need to."Dave Schaeffer, Vice President, Distribution and Fulfillment, Simon & Schuster
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Property Firm Migrates from Mainframe to Windows, Cuts Costs 60 Percent, Ups Speed"There is so much we can do now that our central system has been migrated from the mainframe to the Windows platform. We have only begun to explore the possibilities—and the impact on our people and our customers."Allan Hansson, Information Technology Program Manager, Stockholmshem
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Scottish and Southern Energy Converts its MIS System to Microsoft with Significant Gains in Performance"We felt that our developers would get more done in less time, and there would be a greater likelihood of reuse down the road. The costs would have been prohibitive had we stayed with the legacy system."Stephen Jeffers, Chief Technology Officer, SSE, Scottish & Southern Energy plc
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Crédit Agricole Ventures with COBOL on Windows"...we save up to a million euros a year ... "Didier Mange, Assistant General Manager, EIG AMT-Crédit Agricole, Crédit Agricole
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.NET Framework Provides Solution for Italian Social Security, Opening AS/400 Applications to Millions of Users"The migration (or better re-engineering) process is aimed at transforming present AS/400 COBOL applications so that their functions can be executed on the .NET platform, allowing further evolution based on a consistent multilevel architecture. The application knowledge (business rules) will continue to be maintained inside INPS, leveraging present personnel skills."Alfredo D’Amato, INPS Software Infrastructure Manager, Italian Social Security (INPS)
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Presidential Life Refreshes CICS with NeoKicks"We decided that NeoKicks with NetCOBOL was also going to be the best solution to give us the agility we were seeking for the future, both in terms of application development options and a reasonable cost base."Marilyn Shenn, Senior Vice President, CIO for Presidential Life when the project was implemented., Presidential Life
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State of Washington Department of Licensing Selects NetCOBOL for .NET as the Most Technically Viable Solution"The beautiful part of the solution was the ability to take our current COBOL code, some of which is over 20 years old and remove the screen interfaces, and the data interfaces and port that without changing the business logic to Windows using NetCOBOL for .NET. By moving to this new platform, utilizing XML and Web Services we can interface with other platforms much much easier."John Hadden, Technology Manager, WADOL, State of Washington Department of Licensing
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NetCOBOL for .NET Provides Route for Interpolis to Modernize 800GB Database Application While Saving Money and Improving Performance"Interpolis found greater flexibility and up to 30% better performance while reducing their TCO by 20% in the first year.",, Interpolis
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Court Saves over $700,000 Annually by Migrating Its Legacy System to a Modern Computing Environment"By porting the application with NetCOBOL for .NET we improved the performance and maintained the transactional integrity of the original application.Our costs are now a fraction of what they were before. One of the most gratifying aspects of going to a distributed environment using NetCOBOL for .NET was the minimal training required by both the programming staff and the end users."Debbie Brasher, IT Manager, Superior Court Stanislaus County System
