Cologne Chamber of Industry & Commerce move from BS2000 to Windows 2008

Rome, Italy January 11th 2010

HTWC, the solution's provider of a broad range of Modernization and re-hosting products and services for a wide variety of Mainframe systems, announced the successful re-hosting of Mainframe applications and databases from BS2000 to Windows 2008 and SQL for the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK).

Like many IT organizations, the IHK IT was facing challenges; Challenges to provide the services to address increasing business needs, legacy barriers to development , and of course challenges to address license and maintenance costs.

The in-house ERP system IBIS had been developed over several years. The application reflects many years of development and refinement of in-house business processes, and is considered a valuable asset by the organization. Yet, it was becoming increasingly difficult to develop to deliver growing business needs without generating extra costs.

The Challenge

Move the organization's IT forward, whilst cutting cost as well as the retention of legacy intellectual property

In HTWC's XFRAME, the IHK found the ideal solution. Re-hosting their ERP application and BS2000 services, to a more efficient and cost effective platform, Windows 2008 and SQL server.

Production line efficiency

75% cost reduction, improvements in performance and the creation of a homogenous development environment, have all been achieved in a project spanning 6 months, with an 8 month payback period, with zero impact to the business.

Modernising our BS2000 has been risk free, smooth, and achieved it's goals. We significantly lowered our license and maintenance costs ¦and are now future proof

Mr. Thomas Kirchrath Head of Information Technology, IHK Koeln