Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced a partnership with Anubex, a leading automated application modernisation solutions provider. Under the deal, Anubex will perform the cross-platform migration of an enterprise application of Swets. The project will involve the conversion, migration, and modernisation of the last back end application, developed with IDMS technology.
The company will use Anubex's tools to migrate an extensive number of lines of code, residing in batch and interactive programmes and scripts, and a substantial amount of production data. The application will be migrated to a new architecture consisting of a combination of COBOL and Java, running on Linux, which enables a more easy integration with other applications running on the same architecture. The firm's data, currently stored in a pre-relational network model, will be migrated to a fully relational model. Character-based screens will be migrated to rich Java interfaces where they will be maintained after the migration in Eclipse.
Anubex will collaborate with Swets' IT team to complete the migration, testing, and taking live of the applications. Slated for completion in the summer of 2009, the migration will be conducted according to SOAR, the snapshot-oriented migration process perfected by Anubex since 1993. To completely eliminate risk, business disruption and code freeze periods, the applications will be migrated and tested iteratively throughout the project and taken live in one single step.
