Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Legacy systems redevelopment specialist, Micro Focus and Oracle have team to do a large scale systems migration at Australia's third largest health insurer HBA, moving the company from an IBM mainframe to a lower cost Sun Solaris environment.
According to the two vendors, the move to Solaris running Micro Focus
Server and Oracle Database has saved HBA $2 million a year. HBA, which
is owned by the global BUPA healthcare group, plans to add a web
services layer to integrate various systems.
“Many options were considered, including creating a completely new
system in Australia, or using the same system as our parent company as
a base for the new system,” said Peter Powell, CIO, BUPA Australia.
“However, none of these options really matched our requirements or
fitted into the time available. Plus, the savings we’re making by
migrating our applications to Unix are being re-invested to extend the
services we provide our members.”
The software and hardware migration to Micro Focus, Oracle, and Sun was
completed in 14 months. Powell estimates an ROI of just under three
years for the migration, which saw the conversion of 5,000 programs,
six million lines of code, four programming languages, and tens of
thousands of files.
“Customers can clearly benefit from our combined technology,” said
Lance Knowlton, vice president of Oracle Modernisation Solutions,
Oracle. “This effort allows customers to capitalise on the strategic
value of Oracle technology while advancing their most difficult
application modernisation efforts.”
"Micro Focus recognises the significant investments many organisations
have made in legacy applications and the challenges they face as they
evaluate approaches for deriving further benefits from those
investments," said Mike Gilbert, vice president of worldwide marketing
at Micro Focus. "By working with Oracle, we are committed to providing
a robust and extensive modernisation strategy for organisations to
unearth even greater value from their legacy systems."
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