Guernsey Electricity needed to reduce its dependence upon increasingly scarce ICL mainframe skills, while at the same time cut costs and increase performance. The company decided to migrate its core business applications from a mainframe to a Windows environment. The utility’s business-critical MIDAS application, the primary source of customer information used by up to 150 employees each day, had been developed in-house in ICL ApplicationMaster and COBOL - its functionality very popular with users. Working with Micro Focus Net Express with .NET and Server Express for .NET along with consultancy and software tools from Blue Phoenix, Guernsey Electricity’s system was successfully migrated to Windows without any change to end-user functionality.

As well as achieving its primary goals the project improved batch performance, reducing run times by 50%. The company, which is the sole provider of electrical power on the island of Guernsey, will reduce application operating costs by 70%.

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