Corporate Information

HTWC srl
Viale America 125
Rome Italy

www.htwc.com

Contact Information

Fabrizio Calabretta
fabrizo.calabretta@htwc.com
Main: +39 06 51958755

Marco Grossi
marco.grossi@htwc.com
Main: +39 06 51958755

HTWC® was founded in Italy from a spin-off of the Italian research and development division of one of the major international software & hardware vendors.

Over the last years the company has developed and refined solutions for organizations that have needed to perform legacy migration.   HTWC® carried out one of the first European Mainframe Rehosting projects currently running in production followed by many other projects nationally and internationally.  For more than a decade HTWC® has maintained its position as the foremost Italian player in the rehosting market with its products, solutions and services.  

HTWC contributes its solutions to the Oracle Modernization Alliance as part of building the SOA Modernization Architecture that creates a target architecture that allows businesses to migrate their applications and permits them to benefit from flexible, open and standards based systems. As a leader in mainframe modernization HTWC® understands that companies today require extreme levels of flexibility from their technology investments. HTWC® is proud to present complete enterprise platform capabilities which leverage HTWC® on the market.

HTWC has build a strong and diversified customer base all over Europe, North Africa, the Middle-East and now HTWC solutions are also now available world wide.

HTWC® supports the customer in the toughest modernization challenges including:

• MAINFRAME rehosting
• SOFTWARE conversion
• SOFTWARE analysis and maintenance
• DATABASE transformation

During past years HTWC has created, developed and distributed the XFRAME® solution on the world market. With XFRAME® it is possible to re-host applications from OS/390, MVS, z/OS and VSE systems to Linux and UNIX.  A Unikix/Sun/Clerity MTP-MBM compatibility toolkit is also available to support migration of applications running in those environments to XFRAME®.

Organizations looking to migrate away form mainframes are able to obtain the following with our solutions:

• Saving on acquiring and managing costs of IT systems
• Avoid the costs of changing the procedures
• Migrating existing applications in a rapid way without any interruption of service
• Increasing the programmers’ productivity by up to 50%
• Easily integrate the old applications to the new ones.

XFRAME®’s design and architecture provides high performance in Linux/UNIX environments, running existing applications that take full advantage of modern SMP and/or clustered architectures, thus assuring real salability.

With a complete set of tools and utilities and a wide range of supported platforms, XFRAME provides a complete and portable rehosting solution.

XFRAME® components include:

• XCICS Transaction Server
• XVSAM File Manager
• XSORT Utility
• Smart Data Conversion Toolkit
• JCL to Shell Converter
• XIMS IMS/DC Compatibility Toolkit
• XBM Scheduler

and more ...

Additionally, HTWC® provides H2R (Hierarchical to Relational) - a data migration tool that allows you to move your IMS/DB (DL/1) data structures to Oracle. H2R provides a transparent gateway to access and maintain data stored in Oracle while accessing the data in the "traditional" IMS way.

G.D.
G.D. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of fast and efficient cigarette making and packing lines. G.D. is part of COESIA, an industrial group specialized in the production of automated machinery. G.D. headquarters is located in Bologna, Italy with an extensive service network consisting of 12 branches. In 2004, G.D. turnover was reported at 440 Million Euros with a workforce of 2,200 employees worldwide.

G.D. Rehosted applications that used a 350 MIPS IBM mainframe running:

• IBM OS/390
• IBM CICS
• IBM PL/1
• IBM DB/2
• IBM IMS/DB
• CA Easytrieve

The Easytrieve and PL/1 were converted to COBOL and then the applications were re-hosted onto an HP-UX PA_RISC running:

• HP-UX 11.11
• HTWC XFRAME 3.4
• HTWC H2R 2.0
• Oracle Database 9i
• Micro Focus COBOL 2.0

Snaidero Group
Snaidero came into being in 1946 when its founder started a small artisan workshop with the very clear idea that he wanted to create innovative furniture that is both aesthetic and functional. The meticulous attention to detail and quality gradually brought prestige to the company and it became known thought the country.

The Snaidero group is now the fifth largest European Kitchen manufacturer and one of the leading players in their market sector. Snaidero Rehosted applications running on a 100 MIPS IBM mainframe running:

• IBM OS/390
• IBM CICS
• IBM COBOL
• IBM DB2

The applications were re-hosted to an HP-UX PA_RISC system running:

• HP-UX 11.11
• HTWC XFRAME 3.1
• Oracle Database 9i
• Micro focus COBOL 2.0