Transoft
Migrates HP e3000 applications and data at L’Oreal
in Mexico
Technology Allows Cosmetics Leader to
Evolve and Innovate
ATLANTA, September 29, 2003 – Transoft,
a leader in enabling companies to evolve new solutions
from existing applications, announced today the successful
completion of a migration project for cosmetics giant
L’Oreal in Mexico. In conjunction with its local
partner, Unycorp S.A. de C.V., Transoft migrated the
entire set of L’Oreal industrial applications and
data from its HP e3000 server environment to a Windows
2000 Server system.
Using the Transoft Legacy Liberator toolset, Transoft
relocated mission-critical programs and data built for
L’Oreal’s HP e3000 server to an open environment
running Acucorp’s ACUCOBOL-GT® and Microsoft
SQL/Server, preserving all the functions and screen layouts
of the former system. As a result, L’Oreal avoids
the huge risks of reengineering and saves on potentially
high maintenance and programming costs due to the upcoming
end of support for HP e3000 platforms worldwide.
L’Oreal’s open-system applications now run
on an HP ProLiant DL740 server, with four Intel Xeon
processors running at 2.0GHz/1 MB, 4 GB of RAM and a
60 GB hard disk. The company completed parallel testing
of the transfer process in late August and launched the
new applications on Sept. 9.
“We are very pleased to help L’Oreal in
Mexico evolve to a modern architecture,” said Dave
Roth, vice president of business development for Transoft. “L’Oreal
is a leader in producing and exporting cosmetics in Mexico
and Latin America. It does not need the risk of replacing
all its highly valued HP e3000 applications and data
with packages or new application developments. We offered
the best alternative with a smooth transition from the
HP environment to a modern Microsoft solution.”
The technical advantages gained by L’Oreal after
choosing Transoft are another key element of its decision. “Besides
the end of support for the HP e3000, we found it hard
to interact with and expand this platform,” said
Jesús Solórzano, manager of industrial
IT at L’Oreal. “With this move to open systems,
we are now much more flexible and have effectively increased
our IT ‘brain power’ to assist with L’Oreal’s
future growth. We could not have made this move without
Transoft.”
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