Mainframe Modernization Solution Enables Retailer to Realize Annual Operating Savings of more than $2 Million

The client is a $5 billion publicly traded health and wellness retailer.​ 

The client needed additional capacity on an aging mainframe infrastructure to run its retail supply chain, distribution logistics, stock control and pricing. License fees were consuming a large portion of the IT budget. This successful retail client sought a new IT infrastructure that was ready to take on the future. The goal was to reduce licensing costs while migrating to a new, more capable and flexible platform without interrupting business or losing any of the key functions of existing applications. The client needed the project completed in 18 months.​

Ensono assessed the applications and data environment and designed a migration plan to a Microsoft platform using NetCOBOL for .NET as the target application language and SQL Server as the data store. The legacy code was converted using Ensono’s ExperThink^TM and Universal Data Converter^TM at our Tarrytown, NY, center, tested and delivered production-ready within 18 months. The client realized ongoing annual operating savings of more than $2 million.​

• Successful application conversion was delivered and tested in 18 months​
• Realized ongoing annual operating savings of $2+ million including software license reductions​
• Rapidly recouped investment in modernization project​
• Batch performance increased and batch window reduced by 30%

• More than 4,500 COBOL programs​
• 100 Easytrieve programs​
• Thousands of JOBs, PROCs and CONTROL CARDS​
• 800 Db2 tables​
• 14,000+ flat files​
• Migration to .NET with SQL Server​