Press Release
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, January 31, 2006 – Syncsort Incorporated is pleased to announce that CNAMTS, the French National Health Service, has selected SyncSort, the high-performance commercial sort and data manipulation utility, and ACUCOBOL-GT, a robust COBOL development system, from Acucorp, Inc., as part of its migration strategy to move vital government prescription and healthcare reimbursement systems from the IBM® mainframe to an IBM pSeries® server running BEA Tuxedo® and accessing data from an Oracle® database.
During rigorous benchmark testing, CNAMTS found that SyncSort was significantly faster than other sort utilities. Production data was used during the benchmarks, ranging in size from two to 10 gigabytes. The tests were conducted with a number of different solutions, but according to CNAMTS, SyncSort was the only one to provide the performance and functionality needed with ACUCOBOL-GT to process its social security and medical benefits data. CNAMTS also discovered that as the amount of data increased, the performance benefits of SyncSort also increased.
"Our mainframe applications were mostly written in COBOL and when we made the decision to migrate, we needed to find a solution that didn't require them to be rewritten. We selected Acucorp's ACUCOBOL-GT Development System in order to extend and modernize these business-critical COBOL applications," said the Migration Project Manager at CNAMTS. "We also needed to find the right high-performance tool to process the rapidly growing amount of data that we receive on a daily basis. After performing numerous benchmark tests, we chose SyncSort because it was substantially faster and the only product that proved to be compatible with ACUCOBOL-GT."
CNAMTS has also discovered the benefits of Visual SyncSort, the graphical interface for SyncSort, as a Rapid Application Development tool (RAD). "Due to Visual SyncSort's ease of use, we have decided to integrate it into CNAMTS development and production sites," explained the Migration Project Manager. "We have already successfully deployed Visual SyncSort on more than 300 PCs, and we are considering extending its use as a standard software tool."
Migrating to IBM pSeries servers running ACUCOBOL-GT, Tuxedo and Oracle, CNAMTS expects the project to be completed by the beginning of 2006. The new system is expected to process applications up to three times faster than when on the mainframe. "We're confident that by moving to open systems, running a modern and portable COBOL like ACUCOBOL-GT and interoperating with the robust SyncSort utility is the right solution to carry on our work now and into the future," added the Migration Project Manager.
"CNAMTS selection of SyncSort reinforces more than 35 years of research and development in high-performance software," said Dan Regan, Syncsort's senior vice president. "Our combination of patented algorithms, advanced access methods, and dynamic optimization allows SyncSort to achieve the maximum from their hardware."
"With ACUCOBOL-GT, CNAMTS can enhance its legacy applications on a new platform while still retaining their valuable business logic. The organization can also preserve its current COBOL development team, without having to retrain them," explained Stéphane Croce, Vice President, Strategic Directions at Acucorp. "The choice to maintain and modernize its legacy systems will substantially increase CNAMTS' return on investment and lower its total cost of ownership when compared to other migration alternatives."
About CNAMTS
CNAMTS (Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie des travailleurs salariés) administers health, maternity, invalidity, professional sicknesses, death and on the job accidents insurance for salaried employees in France. It also coordinates the medical verification system and participates in the organization of health prevention campaigns. CNAMTS manages a network of local and independent agencies, including: 129 CPAM (Primary Social Security Office), which is in charge of healthcare treatments reimbursement and workers' compensation; and 16 CRAM (Regional Disease Insurance Offices) which is in charge of the prevention of accidents at work.
About Acucorp
Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, USA with additional offices in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 100 countries. Its over 4,000 customers and 1,000,000 end users include Allianz Investmentbank AG, Ford Argentina, L'Oréal Mexico, Red Cross Belgium, SEB, Siemens, Symology, Thames Water, The Travelex Group (formerly Thomas Cook), Tower Records and Warner Music Group. The Company designs, develops, and markets innovative solutions for extending the life of vital COBOL business systems. More information about Acucorp can be found online at: www.acucorp.com.
About Syncsort
Syncsort Incorporated is a leading developer of high-performance storage management and data warehousing software for mainframe, UNIX, Linux, Windows and NetWare environments. For more than 35 years, Syncsort has built a reputation for superior product performance and reliable technical support. An independent market research firm has named Syncsort as one of the top Data Warehouse 100 Vendors for seven years in a row and the company was recently chosen as the leading provider of Data Acquisition and Integration products. Over 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries to back up and protect data in distributed environments, speed data warehouse processing, improve database loads and speed query processing. For more information, visit the Syncsort Web site at www.syncsort.com.
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