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Case Studies
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Introduction
International Monetary Systems, Ltd. (IMS) enjoys a
reputation as the leader in the commercial industry
barter marketplace. IMS was established in 1985, for
the purpose of acquiring, owning, managing, and
operating trade exchanges and other related
businesses and is one of the world's largest barter
systems, serving more than 16,000 business and
service professionals throughout the U.S. IMS has a
seasoned management team with more than one hundred
years of combined industry experience.
The Problem
IMS had very robust, custom applications that had
been designed over years to uniquely support the
specific functionalities their clients required. IMS
realized that in order to be the true industry
leader, their IT environment needed to expand and
modernize to accommodate the evolving needs of their
global clients. The IMS organization required
greater scalability for their applications. This
meant the ability to support an increasing number of
users, the ability to run those AS/400-developed
applications on open platforms like Windows Server,
and to deploy them via the web, graphically.
The Solution
IMS explored a number of different bartering
applications after coming to the realization that it
was time to migrate and modernize. While acquiring
new applications was the first choice for them, they
realized that none of the applications they reviewed
offered them the unique functionality that they had
developed in their custom applications. A complete
rewrite of the application would have been costly
and time-consuming, two resources which most
companies cannot spare, and IMS was no exception.
IMS determined, after thorough evaluation of
marketplace options, that migrating their code and
modernizing the user interface was the appropriate
course of action to alleviate their problems.
The decision to implement the INFINITE solution was
based on the following characteristics:
• The ability to retain their investment in a highly
specialized application
• The speed and efficiency of the Infinite migration
and modernization approach
• Web deployment for access from ground or
satellite-based clients and SOA enablement
The Outcome
This AS/400 Migration and Modernization project was
begun in early 2007 and will be completed later in
the year. Now IMS end users can look forward to
enjoying enhanced functionality with their migrated
applications, as well as a graphical, web-enabled
user interface. IMS developers enjoy an improved
development environment with the capability of
making dynamic additions to the existing application
functionality. The business runs more efficiently,
cost-effectively and experiences the benefits of
integration of database and applications across the
enterprise.
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TRADEMARKS
Copyright © 2010 INFINITE Corporation. IBM Midrange,AS/400,
OS/400 and System/36 are registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation.Windows,
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Microsoft. INFINITEweb, INFINITE BI, INFINITEiSeries, INFINITE 36 are registered trademarks of INFINITE Corporation. All other
product and brand names are registered trademarks of their respective companies. No part of this document may be reproduced without written permission of INFINITE Corporation.
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