Arlington County Generates a Modernization ROI of over 30% Through Legacy System Migration

The county migrated two mission critical systems to Windows to mitigate the rising costs of maintenance and lack of replacement support staff.

Intellisys’ capabilities and automation allowed the county to retire its mainframe at least a year earlier than anticipated.

Arlington County

The Story

Arlington county is an urban county close to Washington D.C. The County has two complex service costing and invoicing systems, Client and Service Event System (CASE) and Purchase of Service System (POS) that were incurring increasing maintenance costs and weren’t scalable or easily extended or enhanced. These systems were written over 20 years ago in COBOL, CA-IDEAL and DATACOM and were installed on an IBM mainframe. The County had invested a considerable amount of time and resources in accumulating business drivers in the systems, and hence was not in a position to simply throw away this investment and start from scratch. At the same time, migrating to modern platforms was not without risk.

Rising maintenance costs

Inability to extend or enhance applications easily in response to changes in legislative requirements

Scarce supply of replacement support personnel

Manual migration methods too time-consuming and created uncertainties in modernization ROI

Solution

Intellisys platform documentation and optimization & migration capabilities

Results

Extracted embedded information from the source of roughly 500K lines of code distributed across COBOL, CA-IDEAL, and DATACOM
Allowed the information to be optimized and generated modern, web-based code that was scalable and maintainable
Automated the extraction of the data model and logic at 100%
Automated the generation of the target system at 82% on Microsoft’s .NET platform in C#/ASP .NET/SQL Server/SSRS in 8 months
No performance degradations in newly generated systems and extensive estimated operational cost savings, resulting in substantial modernization ROI.

Arlington County Generates a Modernization ROI of over 30% Through Legacy System Migration

Arlington County

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Arlington County Generates a Modernization ROI of over 30% Through Legacy System Migration

Arlington County

INDUSTRY

PLATFORM CAPABILITIES USED

SUCCESS METRIC

Challenges >>

Solution >>

Results >>

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