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HP has helped hundreds of enterprises transform their mainframe environments into robust, responsive IT infrastructures.  This array of worldwide companies turned to HP for expertise in migrating or re-engineering their mainframe environments.  Learn how they have successfully met today's business needs -- through lower operating costs and increased flexibility -- by leaving their mainframes behind.  

»  Energy/Utilities
»  Financial Services Industry
»  Government
»  Manufacturing & Distribution
»  Retail
»  Services

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Energy/Utilities

»  View all Energy/Utilities customer successes (PDF, 281KB)
»  Aquila (HP UX 11i, HP Services Consulting, Oracle, Peoplesoft)
Migrated PeopleSoft HR, PeopleSoft Financials, and CISPlus for a more flexible environment to support new business opportunities and reduce operational costs.
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Financial Services Industry

»  View all Financial Services Industry customer successes (PDF, 320KB)
»  Alliance & Leicester (Windows, HP Services Consulting)
Web front-end enabled customer self-service to meet  increased demand and reduce internal costs

»  National Agriculture Cooperative Federation (HP UX 11i)
Replaced its mainframe with HP Superdomes, shortening claim investigation and payment process from 25 to 10 days

»  Shazam (HP NonStop)
Expected 30 percent cost savings compared to their corresponding mainframe solution
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Government

»  View all Government customer successes (PDF, 562KB)
»  Land Registry (HP Financial Services, HP Services Consultng, Oracle)
Implemented a distributed IT infrastructure to lower cost-per-transaction with agreed-upon service levels at a predictable cost. 

»  Peralta (HP Services Consulting, Windows)
HP helped consolidate 12 disparate networks with UNIX®-based & mainframe-based e-mail systems.

»  Workcover (HP Services Consulting, Windows)
Migrated COBOL application, enabling significantly reduce IT costs.
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Manufacturing & Distribution

»  View all Manufacturing & Distribution customer successes (PDF, 721KB)
»  Festo (HP UX 11i, Windows, SAP)
Reduced inventories and logistics cost while, during the same period, sales and product range grew.

»  General MIlls (HP OpenView, MCS, HP UX 11i, Windows, SAP, Oracle)
Transitioned SAP R/3 to HP servers; resulted in reducing data center size by a factor of seven.

»  KCM (Windows, SAP)
Moved SAP from a mainframe to 64-bit Itanium-based systems, reducing maintenance costs and providing headroom for future scalability & performance.

»  Kennametal (HP UX 11i,  Windows, HP OpenView, XP, SAP, Oracle)
Migrated IT operations from mainframe to HP-UX environment using HP Critical System Support.

»  Renesas (HP UX 11i, Windows, SAP, Oracle)
Enabled a rapid system implementation and increased cost efficiencies. 
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Retail

»  View all Retail customer successes (PDF, 1MB)
»  Meijer (HP OpenView, HP UX 11i, Oracle)
OpenView monitors hundreds of servers, including 10 IBM Mainframes, enabling IT staff to manage more systems and network devices with fewer people.

»  Vendex KBB
Achieved operational cost savings through consolidation of multiple systems, including their mainframe; Vendex is protecting against disaster using HP's Business Continuity & Availability services and Temp Capacity on Demand to turn an additional system capacity at its second site to meet performance needs.
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Services

»  View all Services customer successes (PDF, 562KB)
»  Allgemeine Bausparkasse - ABV (HP Services Consulting, HP UX 11i, EVA)
Original core mainframe business application now runs on HP, after Sun was unable to adequately handle the application and enterprise database.

»  Sodexho (HP UX 11i, HP OpenView, HP Services Consulting, SAP)
Clustered HP-UX servers with Oracle9i database delivered a fivefold reduction in total cost of ownership
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