legacy in case studies
Denplan bites hard on document automation
Case Study Denplan head of IT Phil Metcalf said the company's existing legacy systems had a number of template documents used to communicate with customers at set times hardwired into core code. Dental payment plan provider Denplan... [17 Jan 2008]
Paymaster saves £300k with mainframe move
Case Study Paymaster used Micro Focus application modernisation technology to move its core legacy applications from a Trimetra mainframe to a Windows server environment, after Fujitsu announced its plans to withdraw support for... [08 May 2007]
Cambridge speedy software brings out the stars
Case Study The Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (Casu) - part of the university's Institute of Astronomy - is testing the Kognitio WX2 database system with legacy data. Cambridge University is speeding up astronomical discoveries... [16 Apr 2007]
ING Direct completes mortgage IT push
Case Study Knight explained: "We are in a fortunate position as a direct-to-market bank in not having a lot of legacy. Savings bank ING Direct has completed its largest tech project in the UK, using offshore developers to help with... [04 Jan 2007]
Publisher gets smart about marketing
Case Study Another benefit is that staff will no longer be needed to maintain legacy databases which contained customer info, as all the data has been migrated to the new system - and this staff can now be re-deployed elsewhere. [28 Nov 2006]
Bank security spend beats spam and malware
Case Study Much of the complexity was the result of previously failing to address the challenges of three mergers in eight years, which brought with them two legacy mail systems, according to Martin Farrelly, head of information... [03 Oct 2006]
Convergence cuts costs at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital
Case Study The converged infrastructure now supports analogue, digital and IP handsets, meaning that the hospital could reduce the cost of the switch-over by retaining legacy equipment. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in... [18 Jul 2006]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study Morning also revealed that CRM is now mobilised at Coca-Cola but, thanks to the company's legacy systems, in-house techies were tasked with creating an application for the handheld. He said: "We looked at the... [17 May 2006]
Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans
Case Study Of course, being given a blank sheet of paper and lack of legacy kit and processes has its advantages, but by the time Turner and his team knew what they had to do, they had "three laptops, an overhead projector, a great... [11 Apr 2006]
Wireless prescription helps doctors speed up treatment
Case Study But the group of hospitals has much grander plans than this: it is working with some Citrix technology that will enable legacy client-server applications to be delivered to PDAs. The Royal Group of Hospitals in Belfast... [06 Oct 2005]
Council switches off mainframe in efficiency drive
Case Study Helens called in Micro Focus and MigrationWare, to help migrate the legacy applications. Helens' legacy systems have been replaced with packages or rehosted using ground-breaking technologies providing... [07 Sep 2005]
Broadband boosts building society's network
Case Study While its legacy network wasn't causing problems, Britannia decided to put a very short timescale on the network update project, completed late last year, to start reaping the benefits as soon as possibly. [02 Sep 2005]
Payments giant saves £2.5m with new network
Case Study And with the creation of a wide-area network, it was also able to dump its costly legacy equipment and build a converged IP network that employees could use for free phone calls and data exchange. Voca said it is also... [07 Jul 2005]
Councils combine to streamline services
Case Study This is something that will involve tacking the councils' legacy applications. Councils in Suffolk are combining their infrastructures to cut costs and provide better services to customers - without pushing up council tax. [05 Jul 2005]
Pru calls in VoIP to improve customer service
Case Study And Worth said the work is unlikely to stop there: "Like any financial services company we've got a huge amount of legacy systems and work processes that we are looking to simplify, perhaps through using middleware. [21 Jun 2005]
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