DFID

"We now have a much more flexible platform upon which to base our operations, but our business users can still utilize the system in the ways they’ve grown accustomed to, and have been successful with. It’s meant we’ve been able to apply change only where it’s been needed, rather than for change’s sake."

Des Donachie, Information Systems Development Manager, DFID

Every year Britain spends approaching £2 billion (US$3.2 billion) to help develop some of the poorest nations of the world. With offices in London and East Kilbride near Glasgow, the Department for International Development is the government agency responsible for managing this budget. Its task is to promote development and reduce poverty, and to administer ex-colonial pension schemes.

Like many organizations world-wide, the Department for International Development has had to face up to the challenge of evolving IT systems that are rapidly approaching the end of their lifecycle. These systems had become expensive to maintain and difficult to develop, yet provided users with all the information they needed. So although one strategy was to upgrade or migrate to modern systems, the business challenge was to ensure that users didn’t feel that they were losing the systems they were comfortable with.

So the Department for International Development turned to Transoft, the international supplier of application modernization and migration software products and services.

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