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1165 Northchase Pkwy
Marietta, Georgia
USA 30067

www.transoft.com

Contact Information

Geoff Baker
gbaker@transoft.com
Main: +44 1753 778010

Since 1986 Transoft, part of Iris Group, has been helping organizations to evolve new solutions from their existing applications, delivering improved business processes - faster, with less risk and at lower cost. Transoft's specialist tools and services have enabled many companies to adopt the latest technologies as part of the development lifecycle of their existing applications; keeping them productive and relevant to changing business needs for longer; providing a continued ROI. Transoft provides application modernization and migration solutions to customers in every region of the world, from offices in the USA and Europe, and with local business partners.

Transoft Application Modernisation SOA solutions provide the unique approach of blending new technologies such as Web services (J2EE or .NET), Java, COM, CORBA and XML with existing application core (legacy) business functions, enabling an evolutionary path within an SOA framework to application extension and transformation, while dramatically reducing project risk, cost and time.

Today, many organisations recognise the benefits of adopting an Application Modernisation strategy instead of ground-up application replacement projects, which can be risky and expensive and do not leverage the return on investment made in existing applications. Transoft's ability to create Web or application services from existing application functions means that existing systems can rapidly be redeployed as Java or .NET-centric systems at a much lower cost and with less risk than conventional re-engineering.

The benefits:

• Comprehensive approach for the evolution of new solutions from your existing applications throughout the entire lifecycle of these applications
• Modernisation of your existing applications may range from enhanced graphical interfaces and the inclusion of a relational database through to taking advantage of the vast range of available modern technology, such as Java/J2EE or Microsoft .NET, to transform, extend and integrate them within and outside the enterprise
• Protects the considerable investment made in developing the original application and removes the cost that a package or re-development implementation would require
• Simply the most flexible, cost-effective, fastest and minimum risk means of enabling an evolutionary path to application extension and modernization

S P Richards
S P Richards Co. is the second largest office products wholesaler in the United States. Transoft first helped SP Richards to migrate its in-house developed order processing system to Unix. In recent years Transoft has enabled SP Richards to implement an SOA architecture covering its legacy systems and its 3rd party package for Warehouse management which runs on iSeries and is written in RPG. Transoft’s SOA for legacy framework currently supports over 40 distribution centers and handles over 1,000,000 transactions per day for SP Richards.

Genuine Parts
Genuine Parts Company (GPC), owns and operates several hundred NAPA auto parts stores and is the wholesale distributor to all of the 7,000 NAPA stores worldwide. Transoft has worked with GPC for over thirteen years providing a continuous modernization strategy and implementation solutions.

Transoft first helped GPC migrate its store system to UNIX and then assisted in the strategy to re-architect the application into a Service Oriented Architecture leveraging core business logic from the legacy system while introducing a new graphical user interface and additional logic layers written in Java. Transoft’s SOA for legacy solution was then extended through the organization providing SOA capabilities to GPC’s massive iSeries data center which manages all of its distribution centers in North America.

By exposing the iSeries RPG code as Services GPC has been able to provide each NAPA store with highly scalable integration directly to the distribution center systems.

Stapletons
Founded in 1937, Stapletons started by trading tyres and other products to garages before ultimately deciding to expand in the late 1950s by becoming specialist tyre retailers. Stapletons didn't want to replace their legacy business system since it was a proven and fully integrated solution covering Sales Orders, Warehouse Management, Accounting, Stock Control and Business Intelligence. They needed a solution that changed none of this, while still allowing Stapletons to reliably provide a sales order process via their Web site.

Steve Parker, I.T. Director at Stapletons, describes their thought process, "we knew that implementing software that would "glue" our bespoke legacy system together with a modern Web application would be a lot cheaper than tossing out our legacy data and implementing new systems. We believe redevelopment inevitably costs more than is budgeted for, produces training issues, takes time to "bed in", and invariably doesn't meet expectations, or requires further modifications at further cost."

Stapleton's chose Transoft and its SOA Adapters as the means, at a very reasonable cost, to re-architect the existing applications such that full integration with the Web sales operation was achieved. TheWeb site was launched in 2001 and online ordering now accounts for nearly 20% of Stapleton's trade business