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More and more companies are modernizing legacy applications to drive business growth with more reliable, efficient IT infrastructures. The Application Modernization Initiative from HP, Oracle and Intel is leading the way.

The business mandate is clear: You need to increase business agility and performance while reducing operational costs and risks. And legacy applications running on older mainframe technologies often run counter to these goals.

That’s why HP and Oracle, in collaboration with Intel Corp., launched the Application Modernization Initiative to help customers worldwide modernize legacy environments.

“The Application Modernization Initiative is a huge opportunity for the resources of HP, Oracle and Intel to come together to help you move to the next generation of enterprise infrastructures,” says Mark Hurd, HP chairman and CEO, during a keynote address delivered recently at Oracle OpenWorld 2007.

To meet increased customer demand for Application Modernization Initiative projects, HP is now tripling the delivery capacity of our Mainframe Modernization Centre of Excellence in Madrid.

“The Application Modernization Initiative enables you to efficiently transition to open standards-based architectures so you can focus upon innovation,” adds John McCain, senior vice president and general manager, HP Services.

Swedish Tax Agency commits to modernization program

When the Swedish Tax Agency wanted to modernize its application and infrastructure environment to make operational activities more effective, it worked with HP Services and our Mainframe Modernization Centre of Excellence to design and implement an application modernization solution. The Swedish Tax Agency’s objective was to simplify procedures when interacting with both the public and business community.

“We have selected HP to perform key migration of our Unisys mainframe applications. This migration will make it possible for the Swedish Tax Agency to provide better opportunities for all kinds of taxpayers to file their tax returns electronically, and save time and money,” says Anne Grön, CIO, Swedish Tax Agency.

“This is a critical modernization program for the Swedish Tax Agency. Under the contract, HP will migrate the existing legacy environment, consisting of Cobol and Assembler applications, to a new open systems based environment including HP Integrity Servers and Oracle 10g Database.”

The right components come together

The Application Modernization Initiative solution incorporates the Oracle Grid Computing Platform with SOA capabilities, including Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager/Grid Control.

The solution runs on HP Integrity systems based on Intel® Itanium® processors, working with the HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture. It is designed, implemented and supported through the HP Application Modernization Services portfolio and also includes architectural design and consulting support from HP, Oracle and Intel.

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Norwegian land management agency and consultant Statskog wanted to improve its allocation of IT budget and internal staff resources. And it was looking for a more proactive approach to supporting its IT environment, which is rapidly transitioning to the HP BladeSystem infrastructure.

HP Proactive BladeSystem Service is helping Statskog achieve these goals with a support program tailored to its specific requirements. This flexible HP Care Pack offering lets the organization complement its internal resources with proven BladeSystem technical and advisory support, budget more accurately for services needs and plan more confidently for future business and technology change.

“We wanted HP for more than standard support,” says IT Development Manager Baard Hansen. “We wanted them as a strategic partner, to give us advice and input into our environment. The HP Proactive Blades support agreement is the perfect answer, because we can pick and choose from a menu of HP services to create a program that meets both needs.”

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