Paymaster

"We selected Transoft because we believed it had the tools and the people to get the job done at the right price."

Ralph Tigwell, Director Business Technology, Paymaster (1836) Ltd.

Transoft, a leader in helping companies evolve their existing legacy applications, has successfully completed an application migration project for Paymaster (1836) Ltd, formerly the Office of HM Paymaster General, moving its critical Banking Suite COBOL-based systems from its legacy ICL VME mainframe to an open systems and better performing Windows 2003 environment.

"The Banking Suite was the last remaining application on our ICL mainframe which was planned to be shut-down and removed by the end of April 2006," said Ralph Tigwell. "It was imperative that along with removing the ICL Trimetra mainframe, the migrated suite had to run with almost total transparency to the staff who use it. I am very pleased to report that after a month’s parallel running we were able to go live mid-April as we originally planned at the start of the project last October, and now we have switched off the mainframe. The new HP DL360 2 processor Windows 2003 platform has not only saved significant costs but is processing the work many times faster than before, allowing us to reduce to a single shift operation."