Public sector
Ateras and Fujitsu enable school migration
13 January 2008
Township High School District 211 in Illinois, USA, in its overall effort to reduce IT costs and improve productivity, has selected a solution by Ateras and Fujitsu to migrate its student information, payroll, personnel and security database systems from a mainframe IMS environment to the Microsoft SQL Server platform.
Ateras and Fujitsu will move the district's applications off a mainframe and onto the Microsoft Windows platform. The solution uses Ateras DB-Shuttle and Fujitsu's NetCobol for .NET, NeoBatch and NeoKicks.
Ateras' technical expertise and 100 per cent automation technology will meet the district's requirements for a quick and error-free conversion of the IMS calls, the database and data. The Fujitsu suite of products will automate the migration of CICS, Cobol and JCL code, and be used for future development of tightly integrated high-performance applications in the Windows environment. A key objective for the project is to make the migration, which will modernise all of the district's critical business processes, as transparent as possible to users who are dependent on minute-to-minute interaction with their business applications and interfaces.
District 211 also wants to avoid any interruptions that might lower the productivity of the district-wide staff. Ateras and Fujitsu will support this effort by using DB-Shuttle and NetCobol technology to create an open architecture environment providing seamless computing across the district's enterprise.
"We've chosen to migrate these back-office functions, which are critical to our overall technology infrastructure, to a more agile platform like Windows to eliminate the significant costs associated with mainframe maintenance, while at the same time increasing our internal control over core applications," said Charlie Peterson, director of technology services at High School District 211. "Ateras and Fujitsu offered us the most comprehensive solution for meeting our goal within a relatively short timeframe."