Transoft posted another migration success story

October 2003

Transoft posted another migration success story

Transoft announced a successful completion of a migration project for cosmetics giant L’Oreal in Mexico. In conjunction with its local partner, Unycorp S.A. de C.V., Transoft reported in a press release that it migrated the entire set of L’Oreal industrial applications and data from its HP 3000 server environment to a Windows 2000 Server system. Using the Transoft Legacy Liberator toolset, Transoft relocated mission-critical programs and data built for L'Oreal's HP e3000 server to an open environment running Acucorp's ACUCOBOL and Microsoft SQL/Server, “preserving all the functions and screen layouts of the former system. As a result, L'Oreal avoids the huge risks of reengineering and saves on potentially high maintenance and programming costs due to the upcoming end of support for HP e3000 platforms worldwide.”

Transoft said that L’Oreal's open-system applications now run on an HP ProLiant DL740 server, with four Intel Xeon processors running at 2.0GHz/1 Mb, 4 Gb of RAM and a 60 Gb hard disk. The company completed parallel testing of the transfer process in late August and launched the new applications in September

“We are very pleased to help L'Oreal in Mexico evolve to a modern architecture,” said Dave Roth, vice president of business development for Transoft. “L'Oreal is a leader in producing and exporting cosmetics in Mexico and Latin America. It does not need the risk of replacing all its highly valued HP e3000 applications and data with packages or new application developments. We offered the best alternative with a smooth transition from the HP environment to a modern Microsoft solution.”

The technical advantages that L’Oreal said it gained after choosing Transoft’s Legacy Liberator were another key element of its decision. “Besides the end of support for the HP e3000, we found it hard to interact with and expand this platform,” said Jesús Solórzano, manager of industrial IT at L’Oreal. "With this move to open systems, we are now much more flexible and have effectively increased our IT 'brain power' to assist with L'Oreal's future growth. We could not have made this move without Transoft.”