Anubex Awarded Contract to Migrate Applications for the City of Brussels.ANTWERP, Belgium -- Anubex, leader in automated software modernization  This article or section appears to contain a large number of buzzwords and may require cleanup. , is pleased to announce it has been awarded a contract to
migrate two software applications used by the city of Brussels The City of Brussels (French: Bruxelles-Ville or Ville de Bruxelles, Dutch: Stad Brussel) is one of the municipalities (the largest one) of the Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium and is the official capital of Belgium. . The deal
is valued at about $1.3 million.
The two software applications manage the financial administration and the human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. of several of Brussels' municipal agencies. The applications have been in use for more than 15 years and today are used by several hundred people. Technically, both software applications will be migrated from a BS2000 mainframe environment to Windows. The financial administration application (known as BRUFIN) will be migrated from IDMS See CA-IDMS and IDMSX. 1. (language, database) IDMS - A pictorial query language, an extension of Sequel2. ["A Management System for an Integrated Database of Pictures and Alphanumeric Data", G.Y. Tang, Computer Graphics Image Processing 16:270-286 (1981)]. on BS2000 and the human resources application (known as PERBRU) will be migrated from LEASY/UTM. Both applications will be converted to more modern technologies on Windows, including modern user interfaces in Java and relational databases in Oracle. The character-based screens of both applications (developed with CA's MAP/C and with Fujitsu Siemens' IFG IFG Impaired Fasting Glucose IFG International Forum on Globalization IFG Individual and Family Grant IFG Inferior Frontal Gyrus IFG Inter-Frame Gap IFG I Feel Good IFG International Facilities Group (Northbrook, Illinois) technology) will be consolidated and migrated to Java Swing and made accessible to users over the internet. Making this transition possible is a combination of Anubex' own Swing-based Waxwing waxwing, any of three species of perching songbirds of the Northern Hemisphere. Waxwings have crests (raised only in alarm) and sleek brownish-gray plumage with flecks of red pigment resembling sealing wax on the wings and a yellow band on the tail tip. components and Instantiations' Swing Designer[TM]. Together these tools combine the rich semantics of the older MAP/C and IFG screen technologies into a native Java drag-and-drop development environment within the Eclipse IDE. This will enable developers to re-use their current skills after the migration to incrementally enrich the mainframe screens with modernized features native to Java. The migration will move some 1.5 million lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. , 1,300 user-interface screens, and 7 GB of data to Windows. In order to maximize efficiency, the migrations of the two applications will be staged to overlap, with the BRUFIN application going live first in February 2009, and the PERBRU following in October of that same year. The project will be executed according to Anubex' iterative snapshot-oriented process called SOAR, and will involve experts from GIAL GIAL Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics GIAL Greta Industriel de l'Agglomération Lyonnaise (Lyon, France professional training) , the non-profit organization that acts as primary provider of IT services to the city of Brussels; Fujitsu Siemens; and Rever. According to Louis Heymans, Managing Director at Anubex, "Our tools will automate over 95% of the work needed to extract these applications from the mainframe, transform them to a Windows architecture, and retarget them to internet and RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database technologies. By combining these tools with the Anubex SOAR process, GIAL and the city of Brussels will be assured a seamless transition." Mia Vermeir, Finance Director of the city of Brussels, justifies the migration through their need to work with up-to-date technologies (graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to , data accessibility O), the urgency to eliminate their technical dependence on the BS2000 platform and the savings that will be generated through a reduction in operational costs. About Anubex Anubex provides solutions for the modernisation of large and complex legacy applications for business and government organisations alike. Anubex exclusively applies a proven methodology and specialised software to optimally re-use the value in existing applications while automatically transforming them to use the most leading-edge technologies. Several of its customers are ranked among the Fortune Global 500. Anubex was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Antwerp (Belgium) with an office in Sacramento (USA). For more info on Anubex, visit their website at www.anubex.com Copyright (C) 2008 by Anubex NV, Belgium. Anubex, the stones logo, Anugen, SLAM, and SOAR are trademarks or registered trademarks of Anubex NV. |
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