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December 2009 - MIGRATIE Groeimarkt: bedrijven die het mainframe de rug toekeren
- 50 klanten van Unisysmainframes 'afgeholpen'
- IBM-mainframeomgevingen het volgende doel
Nederland herbergt nog steeds unieke softwarebedrijven. Een daarvan is de firma Asysco in Coevorden, gespecialiseerd in het overzetten van Unisys mainframeomgevingen naar het Windows-platform. Met een in eigen huis ontwikkelde techniek heeft deze onderneming wereldwijd al meer dan vijftig bedrijven van het mainframe 'afgeholpen', waaronder grote banken, verzekeraars, retailbedrijven en overheidsinstellingen. Lees het gehele Automatiserings Gids artikel hier.
'Succesvolle migraties zijn de beste reclame'
December 2009 - Steeds meer bedrijven die willen migreren van gesloten Unisys-mainframes naar de open wereld van relationele databases en .NET weten de weg naar Asysco te vinden. Onlangs nog zijn twee grote trajecten afgerond bij een groot Zwitsers chemisch concern en bij een Europese autoverhuurder. Lees het gehele Emerce 100 artikel hier.
'Onze klanten zijn onze beste verkopers'
November 2009 - Praten, luisteren, oplossingen aandragen en vooral heelveel reizen. Het doel: zo veel mogelijk Unisys-mainframegebruikers ervan overtuigen dat Asysco dé oplossingen in huis heeft voor een vlekkeloze migratie naar de open wereld. Wie in de salesstaf van Asysco zit, heeft een bijzonder gevarieerd bestaan. Lees het gehele Management Team 100 artikel hier.
Profiled HBOS migration with Asysco
November 2009 - HBOS is a banking and insurance group in the UK and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking group. Back in 2004, the company migrated all its applications and data onto a Windows-based platform using Asysco's AMT-Lion. since then, HBOS has turned to Asysco again to complete the second stage of the mainframe migration project. Read the whole, Finance on Windows Partner Guide article, here.
Mainframe Modernization: Renewing the Enterprise
Making the Smart Move from Mainframe to Microsoft
October 2009 - Asysco Migration Technology helps companies save money and unlock the full potential of their legacy applications Read the whole Windows in Financial Services article here.
Mainframegebruikers willen over naar open systemen
Oktober 2009 - Uit recent onderzoek blijkt dat ongeveer vijftig procent van alle bedrijven waar een mainframe staat, binnen twee tot drie jaar over wil stappen op open systemen. Vooral kostenbesparing en het vinden van voldoende goed opgeleid personeel zijn de achterliggende drijfveren. Lees het gehele Computable 100 artikel hier.
'Migratie levert grote kostenbesparingen op'
Oktober 2009 - De economische teruggang heeft niet voor ieder bedrijf negatieve gevolgen. Asysco bijvoorbeeld ondervindt juist een impuls. Veel concerns, vooral in de financiële sector, zien in de migratieoplossingen van Asysco een manier om snel te bezuinigen en tegelijkertijd toe te treden tot de ‘open wereld’. Lees het gehele Management Finance artikel hier.
EMS-CHEMIE AG enjoys new future with AMT-LION
Coevorden, 7 September 2009 - EMS-CHEMIE AG, Switzerland, has successfully moved into production with their new open platform after a migration from a Unisys 2200 mainframe, enabled by Asysco Migration Technology.
The EMS Group, headquartered in Domat/Ems, is a leading chemical manufacturer, with business units in Performance Polymers and Fine Chemicals/Engineering. Their worldwide activity is supported by more than 2200 employees in more than 30 subsidiaries.
They had chosen Asysco as their business partner for a complete migration of their complex mainframe systems that cover vital areas of their business like production planning, supply chain management, procurement, customer management, invoicing, and numerous calculations and reports for their daily and month results.
Asysco had offered their unique and automated Asysco Migration Technology (AMT) for this strategic project. Now, after the successful and smooth go live, EMS-CHEMIE AG is looking forward to harvesting the benefits of the open and flexible AMT-LION environment, delivering more value to their business users in a more efficient way.
Last but not least, the new IT landscape has become far less expensive from a TCO point of view.
Asysco: a perfect solution for the financial world
June 2009 - At the moment, Asysco, the market leader in mainframe migrations, is attracting a lot of attention from the financial world. "Banks and insurance companies recognize better than most just how important it is to switch to open systems and they are quick to turn to us. Read the whole Management ICT article here.
Europcar Sweden converts their Unisys systems to a modern platform using Asysco Migration Technology
Coevorden, 15 July 2009 - Europcar Sweden (Europeisk Biluthyrning AB), with headquarters in Stockholm, has trusted Asysco to go ahead with migrating their business critical car booking and reporting system, currently residing on a Unisys mainframe.
They will use Asysco Migration Technology (AMT) LION for converting their LINC code based applications and DMS II databases into a modern and open Windows environment.
Europcar is currently using a Unisys LINC/EAE application environment to handle car reservations and logistics, and underlying financials and management reporting. This is a 24x7 operation, putting a high demand on the central system. Approximately 100 rental offices, which are spread all over Sweden, are connected to the central environment.
As an end result of the migration process, and in addition to substantially lowering their TCO, Europcar is looking forward to a more flexible and proactive approach in the delivery of new functions to their business users, as well as a significant improvement of their reporting system. Last but not least, they also expect more transparency and better service, by implementing a new support model for their environment.
The decision in favor of AMT-LION has been fully supported both from a technical and a business perspective. The project duration is expected to be 6 months.
KEEP ON MOVING
Finance on Windows, summer 2009 - When its mainframe system reached the end of its life, the HBOS insurance and investment division (HBOS I&I) looked long and hard for the best system to take it into the future. The answer came from Asysco, as Jacqui Griffiths found out.
Read the whole article here.
New customer, Turlock Irrigation District
We are proud to announce that Turlock Irrigation District (TID), California, has signed with Asysco for a Unisys migration project.
TID, established in 1887, was the first publicly owned irrigation district in the state and one of only four in California today that also provides electric retail energy to its customers.
Today, TID provides safe, low-cost and reliable electricity to a growing customer base that today numbers in excess of 98,000 home, farm, industrial and municipal accounts. TID also provides irrigation water to over 5,800 farmers covering approximately 150,000 acres of farmland.
TID will convert with us some 700,000 Lines of LINC and a small amount of COBOL, and they have chosen for AMT-LION as the target platform.
Groeien ondanks (of dankzij) de crisis
April 2009, er zijn bedrijven die absoluut geen last hebben van de neergaande economie. Asysco is zo'n bedrijf. Asysco is gespecialiseerd in migratie van Unisys -en binnenkort ook IBM-mainframes naar open systemen. De vraag hierna is zo groot dat Asysco alleeen maar groeit. Lees het gehele Management Team 500 artikel hier.
Asysco takes on additional staff
Coevorden, 6 april 2009, the Dutch Asysco company, specialist in mainframe migrations, has once again taken on three new employees for the Q&A and R&D & Migration departments. Gerlof Lutter is to reinforce the testing team at Asysco, while Lesley Bickerton and Jeremy Lukins have been employed as software engineers. Read the whole article here.
Open systems lead to big savings in the financial world
Migrating mainframe applications provides fast time-to-time-market
In the financial world, extensive use is still made of mainframe applications. After all, the mainframe offers unparalleled stability. But it also has its disadvantages. For instance, the costs of management and maintenance are high and it is difficult to improve competitive position. Moreover, it's increasingly difficult to find qualified personnel because many mainframe specialists have either retired or have reached pensionable age. So what are the opportunities for financial institutions to benefit from the advantages of the mainframe, without the associated disadvantages? Read the whole article here.
Large pitfalls in modernizing legacy applications
Coevorden, 26 January 2009 - There are countless companies that are still continuing to use legacy applications - companies that often consider migrating to another platform. However, migration specialist Asysco says that migrations are not always without risk and tells about the pitfalls in modernizing legacy applications. Read the whole article here.
Asysco takes on three new ICT specialists
Coevorden, 14 January 2009 - Asysco, the Dutch company specializing in mainframe migrations has taken on three new employees. Jurjen Leinenga has joined the QA department while the R&D department has recruited Clement Nelemans and Allard Peper. Owing to a number of new international orders, the number of employees is expected to continue to rise in the future. Read the whole article here.
Migrating from a mainframe to open systems very quickly leads to financial benefits
Coevorden, 8 december 2008 - The ROI for migrating from a mainframe to an open environment is achieved within a year by approximately sixty percent of organizations. This is one of the results of a survey carried out by the Dutch company Asysco - the specialist in mainframe migrations. Most of the companies that took part in the survey said that the cost of maintaining a mainframe is so high that the investment in migration is soon recouped. Read the whole article here.
Marcel den Outer and Gert Assen join Asysco
Coevorden, 9 december 2008 - The Dutch company Asysco, the specialist in mainframe migrations, has recruited two new employees. Marcel den Outer will strengthen the Service Europe department as a technical consultant and Gert Assen is joining Tailormade Services as a software engineer. Read the whole article here.
Asysco turns its attention to IBM mainframes
The financial crisis does not only have adverse effects. In fact, in Coevorden, Asysco is noticing an upswing in (financial) customers that want to quickly migrate from their mainframes to open systems. Asysco has the solutions to this and can guide its customers through the transition. Read the whole Consultancy Guide 2008 article here.
Asysco anticipates strong growth
Coevorden, 1 December 2008 - The Dutch company Asysco, the specialist in mainframe migrations has expanded its team with the addition of two new employees. This expansion follows the acquisition of various large orders for 2009 from clients that want to migrate their mainframe applications to open systems. Read the whole article here.
TeliaSonera is modernising their Unisys mainframe environment with Asysco Migration Technology
Asysco proudly announces that they have teamed up with TeliaSonera, the telecommunications operator with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, in order to modernise their Unisys mainframes environment.
The unique Asysco Migration Technology (AMT) will be used for converting all of TeliaSonera’s Unisys legacy applications and databases to a more cost efficient computing platform, maintaining the business functionality and interfaces, without compromising performance and security.
Besides a substantial maintenance cost reduction, the new platform will also deliver a faster time-to-market (based on the much more flexible repository based development) and a more efficient system management.
TeliaSonera telecommunication services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, in Spain and the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey. They are the leading European provider of quality cross-border voice, IP and capacity services, provided through our wholly-owned international carrier network.
In 2007, TeliaSonera’s net sales amounted to SEK 96 billion, and at the end of December 2007 the total number of subscriptions exceeded 114 million in 18 countries. The TeliaSonera share is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Simplicity and service are important tools for them in creating profitable growth and value for our customers and shareholders. To download PDF click here.
HBOS INSURANCE & INVESTMENTS HAVE UPGRADED THEIR UNISYS LEGACY TO .NET
In September 2008, HBOS have gone into production with their migration to Asysco Migration Technology Visual Studio (AMT-VS). This is the endpoint of a process aimed at modernising their Unisys mainframe environment. Read the whole article here.
It's the business people and not the technical people that ask for Asysco
November 2008 - Asysco, the company specialized in conversion software that makes the transition from Unisys mainframes to open systems run smoothly and seamlessly, is seeing exeptionally rapid growth. Located in rural Coevorden, the company is attracting the attention of firms the world over at an ever-increasing rate. "It's going incredibly fast," says CEO Erik van Rikxoort. Read the whole Management Team 100 article here.
Open Windows platform for Unisys mainframe simply accessible
Business agility, which allows new products to be effectively marketed, must receive optimum support from IT. That is tricky for mainframe users. Software development is time consuming and inefficient. The switch to an open Windows platform is the solution, which is quickly realizable thanks to Asysco. Read the whole Computable 100 - 2008, article here.
Asysco helps the financial world switch to open systems.
October 2008 - The financial world is switching increasingly and more quickly from closed mainframe applications to open systems. Not simply because this saves costs but particularly also in order to improve the competitive position. Asysco in Coevorden is in the ideal position to accompany these companies to the open world. Read the whole Management Team Finance article here.
Nature’s Sunshine Products signs with Asysco to convert their Unisys LINC systems
After much due diligence, Nature’s Sunshine Products (NSP) has decided to implement Asysco’s AMT-LION migration solution. All NSP Unisys mainframe applications (EAE and COBOL) will be migrated to a Windows-based, SQL-backed AMT-LION system. This migration will allow NSP to retain their current business logic while moving to the highly productive AMT-LION Windows programming environment. With a move to AMT-LION, this leaves open the possibility of moving to Microsoft’s C# or VB.Net for Visual Studio in the future, if/when that becomes a strategy for NSP. NSP will retire its Unisys mainframe in early 2009.
NSP, located in Provo, Utah, provides the highest quality herbal, vitamin, mineral, and nutritional supplements worldwide. Visit them at www.naturessunshine.com.
Asysco has the wind in its sails
June 2008 - Asysco really has got the wind in its sails. This IT company, based in Coevorden and specialised in solutions for migrating mainframes to open environments, is being increasingly approached by large customers who have decided to bid farewell to their closed systems. Read the whole Management Team ICT article here.
Asysco adds more employees
Coevorden, 19 May 2008 - Asysco has recruited three new employees. These appointments result from an increasing number of orders for Asysco that focus on migrating mainframe applications to flexible, open systems. Read the whole article here.
Asysco strengthens team with four new employees
Coevorden, 28 April 2008 - Asysco, the specialist in mainframe migrations, has added four new employees to its team. This expansion focuses on Asysco's technical team, enabling the company to support its rapidly growing number of customers in their migration processes. Read the whole article here.
Asysco appoints three new staff members
Coevorden, 14 April 2008 - Asysco, specialist in mainframe-migrations, has just appointed three new members of staff. Janita Hoveling has started work as test coordinator, Henry Morren as R&D software engineer and Greg Hammil as test engineer. Read the whole article here.
Asysco Migration Technology: Cost-Effectiveley Automating Application Conversion
Asysco has been working with clients using Unisys Mainframes for more than 20 years and is an established leader in Unisys mainframe migrations. Read the whole Windows in Financial Services article here.
The Broekman Group Outsources Application Development and Management to Asysco
Asysco has entered into a new contract with the Broekman Group. Broekman is one of the biggest companies in the port of Rotterdam and has a large number of international branches. The contract has a value of 25,000 man-hours and comprises the building of new applications and the maintenance of existing applications. Read the whole article here.
Unique tools for migration from closed mainframe to open platform
More and more mainframe users want to switch to open environments. Asysco in Coevorden has the solution for them. In a fully automated process, mainframe based applications and databases are converted to a Windows platform, for example. Read the whole Consultancy Guide 2008 article here.
Using LION by Unisys mainframe to open Windows platform
Many organizations feel very challenged by the idea of migrating a Unisys mainframe to an open Windows platform. There's no need, according to Erik van Rikxoort, CEO, and Romke Wijmenga, CTO of Asysco. Such a migration can be realized within a few months and the organization can continue with a clean slate. Read the whole Emerce 2008 article here.
Asysco appoints Erik van Rikxoort as new CEO
The Dutch company Asysco, supplier of solutions for protecting, modernising and expanding investments in existing Unisys LINC EAE- or Cobol-systems, has appointed Erik van Rikxoort as Chief Executive Officer. Since 1 September, Van Rikxoort has been responsible for realising Asysco’s growth strategy through international expansion, the development of sales activities and further development of the partner channel. Read more about the appointment of Erik van Rikxoort here.