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BluePhoenix (NASDAQ: BPHX) is a leading global provider of modernization solutions for legacy information systems. Its unique suite of automated tools and services helps customers achieve rapid ROI with renewed business capabilities. BluePhoenix is unique in addressing the full range of IT modernization through automated migration, SOA enablement, Re-Hosting and Re-Architecting solutions that mitigate risk, minimize IT downtime, and preserve application business logic.

BluePhoenix offers a wide range of Enterprise IT Migration solutions. Each migration project is preceded with a global assessment using BluePhoenix™ IT Discovery. This tool provides a full inventory of all IT application assets along with their interrelationships and dependencies, thus helping to identify the least risky and most cost-effective solution based on the client's specific IT environment and project needs.

BluePhoenix™ DBMSMigrator
This automated tool provides fast and accurate application migrations from nonrelational databases such as IDMS, ADABAS, IMS, and VSAM to the Oracle database. DBMSMigrator performs automated conversions with no residuals, emulation software, or translation procedures.

BluePhoenix™ LanguageMigrator
Incorporates in-depth knowledge and experience in language upgrades and implementations to create a reliable, time-efficient, and comprehensive solution. LanguageMigrator successfully addresses the range of challenges encountered when migrating 3GL/4GL languages such as PowerBuilder, COBOL, Natural, and ADSO.

BluePhoenix™ DataMigrator
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Danish Commerce and Companies Agency—Denmark
Suite: Enterprise IT Migration
Solution: DBMSMigrator: ADABAS/Natural to Oracle

Business Environment

Danish Commerce and Companies Agency is part of the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs in Copenhagen. The Agency administers legislation regarding business and commerce in Denmark and is responsible for regulating accountants, real estate agents, authorized translators, interpreters, restaurants, and hotels, as well as the Home Service Scheme.

Business Need

The need to cut expenditures as costs of execution and license fees are rising steadily while the specialized programmers needed for 4GL environments are getting harder and harder to find. In addition, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency decided that in order to stay competitive there is a need to improve response time by modernizing their legacy applications to Web-based environments.

IT Challenge

The project calls for migration of more than 2,700 ADABAS/Natural programs with a million lines of code, and 200 ADABAS views from the OS/390 (MVS) mainframe to Oracle/Java/J2EE running on Linux.

BluePhoenix Solution

Project still in progress. BluePhoenix utilized its highly automated tool, DBMSMigrator for ADABAS/Natural. This tool offers a complete solution for clients looking to migrate away from ADABAS/Natural, enabling migration to RDBMS/Java or RDBMS/COBOL. The solution also enables migrating ADABAS/COBOL to RDBMS/COBOL.
“Not only will the migration allow us to move our technology forward, but thanks to the efficiency of the automated conversion tools, we estimate significant savings in annual operating costs and expect to achieve a very rapid return on our investment. BluePhoenix was the only company in the field that could offer us a fully automated conversion solution from ADABAS/Natural.”