BLUEPHOENIX TO MODERNIZE LEGACY DATABASES FOR DEPT OF ENERGY.BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BPHX), Cary, N.C., a leader in value-driven legacy modernization, has announced that following a successful global assessment of the systems at the U.S. Department of Energy, it has won a major project estimated at $1.1 million to migrate and modernize several key applications and databases to the Java/Oracle environment. The legacy technology includes ADABAS/Natural, VSAM/COBOL, JCL (Job Control Language) A command language for mini and mainframe operating systems that launches applications. It specifies priority, program size and running sequence as well as the files and databases used. JCL - Job Control Language , Assembler, CLIST CLIST Command List CLIST Center for Labor Information and Training CLIST Comma Separated List , SuperWylbur, PL/I (Programming Language 1) A high-level IBM programming language introduced in 1964 with the System/360 series. It was designed to combine features of and eventually supplant COBOL and FORTRAN, which never happened. , CA Easytrieve and SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. . This project will be executed in conjunction with BluePhoenix partner EES See Skipjack algorithm. (Energy Enterprise Solutions), to whom BluePhoenix is serving as subcontractor. The Department of Energy's overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. Working in conjunction with EES (Energy Enterprise Solutions), a leading provider of solutions to the Department of Energy, BluePhoenix's automated migration tools and services will be used to perform the migration, transformation, testing and enhancement to the modernized databases and applications. "We are very comfortable with our initial experience of working with BluePhoenix through the global assessment and into the initial stages of the migration effort," said Bill Underwood, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. and Director of Office of Information Technology, Department of Energy / Energy Information Administration. "We look forward to leveraging the benefits of modern technology with the reduced risk and timeframes that BluePhoenix can provide." According to a recent study entitled "Government and IT Modernization" from Gartner, Inc., factors such as skill gaps, budget cuts, complexity and age of IT systems have a direct impact on government IT departments' assets, services and management practices. Gartner notes that "During the next 5 to 10 years, the retirement of baby boomers will create gaps in skills required to upgrade and maintain legacy mainframe-based systems that are poorly documented and dependent on vanishing programmers." "This project represents our continued support and commitment to the federal government in their quest to secure a safe, rapid, economic migration path for their legacy databases and applications," said Arik Kilman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BluePhoenix. "Given the amount of legacy systems that can be found in all areas of government, we see this as an excellent market for growth in the coming years." About BluePhoenix Solutions BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX) is a leading provider of value-driven modernization solutions for legacy information systems. BluePhoenix offerings include a comprehensive suite of tools and services from global IT asset assessment and impact analysis to automated database and application migration, rehosting, and renewal. Leveraging over 20 years of best-practice domain expertise, BluePhoenix works closely with its customers to ascertain which assets should be migrated, redeveloped, or wrapped for reuse as services or business processes, to protect and increase the value of their business applications and legacy systems with minimized risk and downtime. BluePhoenix provides modernization solutions to companies from diverse industries and vertical markets such as automotive, banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing and retail. Among its prestigious customers are: Aflac, Citigroup, DaimlerChrysler, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, Lawson Products, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, Merrill Lynch, Rabobank, Rural Servicios Informaticos, SDC SDC Silver Dollar City SDC Security Door Controls SDC Student Development Center SDC San Diego Chargers SDC Science Data Center SDC System Development Charges SDC Studebaker Drivers Club SDC San Diego, California (border patrol sector) Udvikling, and TEMENOS For the municipality in Crete see Temenos, Greece. Greek Temenos (τέμενος[1], from the Greek verb τέμνω . BluePhoenix has 15 offices in the USA, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Cyprus, South Korea, Australia, and Israel. For more information, visit http://www.bphx.com or call 210/408-0212, ext. 600. |
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