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Scottish
& Southern Energy plc Migrates 1.9 TB Database Applications using
Fujitsu’s NetCOBOL for World Class Performance
Using NetCOBOL for .NET and Microsoft’s SQL Server one of the largest utility companies in the UK is seeing performance improvements, such as some reports taking 4 minutes when they previously took 40, on a much more economic platform. Sunnyvale, September 12, 2005 – In a case study recently published by Microsoft, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) is publicizing the results of a mainframe-to-Microsoft’s .NET Framework migration using Fujitsu Software’s NetCOBOL for .NET and Microsoft’s SQL Server and Visual Studio. The migration involved taking a 1.9 TB database and associated COBOL applications from DB2 to SQL Server, and resulted in an application that delivered world-ranking performance in both transactions per second and the number of rows in a SQL Server database. The SSE migration demonstrates that Windows servers are fully capable of supporting the workloads and service levels that have been associated with mainframes in the past. As Stephen Jeffers, Chief Technology Officer, SSE, states: "We were looking for alternatives to our existing IBM DB2 system so as to improve our ability to analyze customer information and to deliver more timely external reports for investors in the Country. … The solution has demonstrated significantly improved reliability and fault tolerance for SSE. … The costs would have been prohibitive had we stayed with the legacy system [i.e. mainframe]." Ron Langer, VP of Global COBOL Sales, Fujitsu Software Corporation, comments, “This is an important project to make public as it dispels any doubt that we can deliver mainframe class performance by migrating COBOL applications to Windows Server environments. The teams at SSE and Microsoft Services did an excellent job in migrating this system, demonstrating that those with vision will always be the leaders in the market place.” Microsoft sees a yet brighter future ahead for SSE. Jennifer Gunnion, Business Manager, Microsoft UK, said, "SSE is in a position to vastly improve its management information by looking at other Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services." The case study explains how the need for flexible reporting and information in a highly competitive market lead SSE to migrate their financial reporting system to the Windows Server environment. Microsoft Services helped an SSE team to perform the migration with the help of NetCOBOL for .NET, Visual Studio® 2003, and Microsoft Visual C#®. Jeffers says, "We felt that our developers would get more done in less time, and there would be a greater likelihood of reuse down the road. … The improved performance compared with the mainframe is a major benefit. Some reports that previously took 40 minutes now only take 4 minutes." To read the complete
study, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/casestudy.asp?CaseStudyID=16811.
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