Visual COBOL helps Trasmediterranea Acciona navigate to the Cloud
Visual COBOL helps Trasmediterranea Acciona
navigate to the Cloud
How modernization made the difference for Trasmediterranea Acciona
IT cost reduction of 20%
Return on investment within 18 months
Modernization project completed in less than nine months, improving time-to-market by 25%
More efficient modern application development environment
About Trasmediterranea AccionaCORE APPLICATION: Ticketing and boarding application, comprising of COBOL
batch processes and CICS transactions
Acciona is one of the leading
Spanish corporations, an operator
in infrastructures, energy, water
and services in over 30 countries.
Trasmediterranea is the largest
Spanish shipping company and
one of the largest in Europe.
Trasmediterranea links the main ports
of Spain with the Balearic and Canary
Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, and with
Morocco and Algeria, throughout
the year.
Trasmediterranea relied on its
mainframe to deliver ticketing
and boarding application services.
These core business services are
comprised of COBOL batch processes
and CICS transactions.
The business critical ticketing and boarding
application needed modernizing. Options for this
valuable application included rewriting, replacement,
retiring it and re-hosting to a different platform.
Rewriting or replacing the COBOL application would be
too costly and would take twice as long as reusing it.
Trasmediterranea was also keen to improve customer
service and enhance the user experience.
Trasmediterranea’s mainframe was an effective but
costly solution. With a steady increase in recurring
costs, Trasmediterranea needed a more versatile and
flexible approach; one which would reduce operational
costs and enable the adoption of new technologies.
Setting a course towards modernization
Visual COBOL for Visual Studio brings efficiency and cost savings Reusing existing COBOL mainframe
business functions in the Cloud saves
time, money, and reduces time to
market, from an original plan of twelve
months down to less than nine.
Micro Focus Visual COBOL enabled a
fast transition to a modern architecture
under .NET, providing a flexible
platform for future growth.
Re-use helped Trasmediterranea
meet project timelines and preserve
the capabilities of its business-
critical application.
Moving to the Cloud delivered a
unified web-based user interface, with
full integration of information, people
and processes.
Improvements in business operations
have realized a 20% saving in
infrastructure costs. In addition,
Visual COBOL created a collaborative
development environment.
Trasmediterranea reaches its destination
“Using Micro Focus Visual COBOL, we can reuse our critical COBOL application, which for us is by far the lowest risk route in taking this application to the cloud.”
Trasmediterranea Acciona
“Making our core logistics application available under Microsoft Azure, using Visual COBOL has not only dramatically reduced our costs, but it also helps position our applications in a more agile, modern architecture for the future.”
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