BluePhoenix Solutions to Modernize Legacy Databases and Applications for U.S. Department of Energy
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Project to Increase Resource and Manpower Availability, Cut Costs and Enable Development of Enhanced Functionality
Database and Application Technology to be Migrated Include ADABAS/Natural, VSAM/COBOL, JCL, Assembler, CLIST, SuperWylbur, PL/I, CA Easytrieve and SAS to a Java/Oracle Environment
Project Estimated at $1.1 Million and Expected to Take 15 Months to Implement
BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX), the leader in value-driven legacy modernization, today announced that following a successful global assessment of the systems at the U.S. Department of Energy, it has won a major project estimated at $1.1 million to migrate and modernize several key applications and databases to the Java/Oracle environment. The legacy technology includes ADABAS/Natural, VSAM/COBOL, JCL, Assembler, CLIST, SuperWylbur, PL/I, CA Easytrieve and SAS. This project will be executed in conjunction with BluePhoenix partner EES (Energy Enterprise Solutions), to whom BluePhoenix is serving as subcontractor.
The Department of Energy’s overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex.
Working in conjunction with EES (Energy Enterprise Solutions), a leading provider of solutions to the Department of Energy, BluePhoenix’s automated migration tools and services will be used to perform the migration, transformation, testing and enhancement to the modernized databases and applications.
“We are very comfortable with our initial experience of working with BluePhoenix through the global assessment and into the initial stages of the migration effort,” said Bill Underwood, CIO and Director of Office of Information Technology, Department of Energy / Energy Information Administration. “We look forward to leveraging the benefits of modern technology with the reduced risk and timeframes that BluePhoenix can provide.”
According to a recent study entitled “Government and IT Modernization” from Gartner, Inc., factors such as skill gaps, budget cuts, complexity and age of IT systems have a direct impact on government IT departments’ assets, services and management practices. Gartner notes that “During the next 5 to 10 years, the retirement of baby boomers will create gaps in skills required to upgrade and maintain legacy mainframe-based systems that are poorly documented and dependent on vanishing programmers.”
“This project represents our continued support and commitment to the federal government in their quest to secure a safe, rapid, economic migration path for their legacy databases and applications,” said Arik Kilman, CEO of BluePhoenix. “Given the amount of legacy systems that can be found in all areas of government, we see this as an excellent market for growth in the coming years.”
Source: BluePhoenix Solutions Ltd
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