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Case Studies
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Migrating iSeries-based applications to Windows
The Problem
When Software Companies wish to migrate legacy applications to open
environments and upgrade them with fully functional BI/OLAP technology
and Web-enabled SOA capability, where do they turn?
The Partner
INFINITE Corporation recently completed an install of an Infinite iSeries
package with OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) for Crossroads. OLAP
technology is bundled with the Infinite iSeries migration suite. The
suite of products provides a complete environment for migrating AS/400
and iSeries applications to Windows, Unix or Linux. It also brings the
AS/400 database across and provides the ability to use such popular
databases as Oracle or MS SQL.
While Crossroads wanted to provide its customers with a Windows version
of its MES suite of products, it was primarily concerned with creating
new functionality using web-based SOA and BI/OLAP technology. This
included web pipes, creating web grids and building reporting dashboards
and web-based reporting and analysis.
Crossroads’ suite of MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is a
web-enabled business intelligence solution that has been specifically
designed for the manufacturing industry. Crossroads delivers
applications that improve the profitability and competitiveness of
manufacturers with sophisticated functionality that is cost efficient,
easy to use, implement and maintain.
The Need
Crossroads is the only cross-platform MES solution that operates on both
AS/400 and PC platforms and interfaces with multiple ERP systems.
Following the Global Alliance Partnership with SSA Global, one of the
world’s largest extended ERP vendors; Crossroads needed a seamless
solution to bridge the existing ERP systems from the AS/400 into the
platform-independent, web-enabled Crossroads GUI MES environment.
The Goal
Rich Grilli, president of Crossroads, said he needed to find a way to
run his system with multiple database capabilities. His goal was to be
able his applications to operate through SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle,
while utilizing Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems, yet only
maintain one set of source code. The only feasible solution he found was
INFINITE Corporation’s Infinite iSeries.
He selected the Infinite iSeries solution with OLAP capability and web
support because it provided the environment to migrate his iSeries
applications to Windows and Linux and allowed the flexibility to use
DB/2, SQL and Oracle.
The Need
Crossroads became a business partner with INFINITE Corporation in 1998,
though the original Baby product line. As times have changed, and
software technology has bettered, the company set its sights forward and
made the move to Infinite iSeries with OLAP.
Thanks in part to a stable partnership with INFINITE Corporation, the
transition to the Infinite line was smooth.
The Time
“Everything went smoothly,” Grilli said. From start to finish, the
project lasted only a few months. Crossroads installed their first
project with a national manufacturing company in Mexico at the end of
2005. Now, more than 200 users have touch-screen capability, web access
and custom drill-down reporting. Welcome to 2006!
The Benefits
“We wouldn’t have been able to do this without this tool,” Grilli said.
“It saved us a fortune! There would have been no way to accomplish this
in a reasonable timeframe.”
Installing Infinite iSeries saved Crossroads more than just time and
money.
“We would have lost all kinds of business has we not found this tool,”
Grilli said.
The Future
The creation of GUI screens with touch screen capability is just a
starting point for Crossroads. Grilli is looking to the future with
plans for more personalized production features. “The production
dashboard is an ongoing process,” Grilli said. The production dashboard
is a feature of OLAP that lets the user design, create and customize
specific reports.
Crossroads will now have the opportunity to deploy its application
across a wider base of clients and provide for integration with existing
ERP ancillary applications, while reducing down-time to the end user.
Being a business partner with INFINITE Corporation will ensure that there
is never a stopping point for Crossroads.
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TRADEMARKS
Copyright © 2010 INFINITE Corporation. IBM Midrange,AS/400,
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