When utility reportedly balks at paying for outdated database solution, IBM and ANTs offer a modern alternative and clean migration.
One of the West Coast’s largest utilities has turned to IBM and ANTs software inc., a provider of database consolidation solutions, for help in migrating 18 billing, energy, retail, and other business-critical applications from Sybase ASE 12.0 and 12.5 to IBM DB2. IBM DB2 SQL Skin for applications compatible with Sybase ASE (IBM DB2 SQL Skin), co-developed by ANTs and IBM, has made it possible for the utility company to accelerate its database management system (DBMS) migration initiatives, reduce legacy maintenance costs, while avoiding disruption of the users' experience, according to ANTs.
The SQL Skin acquisition decision was made after the company conducted proof-of-concept projects where three Sybase ASE applications were migrated to IBM DB2 in less than three weeks and with compatibility close to 100 percent, using IBM DB2 SQL Skin, which is built on ANTs Compatibility Server (ACS), according to ANTs.
Like many organizations, the business enterprise supports C++, PowerBuilder and Perl-based applications running on Sybase ASE. With limited on-site Sybase ASE expertise, and facing the end-of-life of Sybase ASE 12.0 and 12.5, a complete manual migration of data and applications to Sybase ASE 15 was considered too costly and time-consuming, according to ANTs.
“It is exciting and validating to have earned the trust of this West Coast utility and to have secured a multi-year contract to provide them with an easy, efficient and flexible answer to database migration,” said Joseph Kozak, chairman and CEO, ANTs software, inc. “We think it is crazy to pay… penalties for staying with products…that have officially ended life, and foolish to worry supporting applications or stressing out to find talent in a pool of disappearing… experts.”
Kozak added, “We hear back-channel chatter speculating on Sybase ASE’s future and enterprise viability as a legacy enterprise platform. We do not respond to speculation, but our customers’ needs, IBM and ANTs are already helping enterprises eliminate expensive, time-consuming DB2 migration with IBM DB2 SQL Skin. Looking ahead to 2011, we are pleased to expand our engagement with this West Coast utility customer, and provide solutions which sharply cut the costs of their Sybase implementations.”
Serving over 14 million people and, as one of the largest providers of electricity on the West Coast, the utility has been providing electric service for more than 120 years.
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