Finnish Support Center FSC Oy Experts in Data Management
FSC Background
FSC Oy, founded in 1993, is a IT service company providing support, migration and data conversion services, including methods and software, for the Mainframe environment.
• Our turnover in 2009 was more than 500K€.• The profit achieved was 10+% of the turnover.
Our business is to deliver modernization projects for aging data systems towards new, open, more easily maintained systems and related data management and support services.
Our modernization project may include both application and database migrations.
Business Concept
FSC delivers following products and services:
• Legacy Modernization, ie. application migrations and data conversions
• Support services
• Related software incl
• Migration tools
• Cobol compilers
• Development environments
• Training services
Products and Services
We co-operate with all companies using Legacy systems in Finland whose intention is the renew their systems.
The business domain covers industry, banking, insurance, public administration and services.
We also operate in Sweden and are prepared to expand to the other Nordic countries.
Customers
Cost-effective Windows Server platform
Microsoft/Fujitsu Alliance
The Past The Future
Managing change -
responsive to business
needs
20%
80%Keeping things
constant - maintaining
Affordable transition:
• COBOL preserved
• Shallow learning curve
Better developer environment & tools
Better developer environment & tools
Positioned for change
Proven RAD
Affordable off-the-shelf solutions
Visual Studio .NET
Security + Experience + Support
Visual Studio .NET + NetCOBOL + Neo solutions
CICS Screens Now ASP.NET Pages
.NET Framework + Choose best language/developer
IA hardware + .NET + NetCOBOL + NeoKicks + NeoBatch + Neo…
Example of a migration solution for .Net
For our company:
FSC has strongly invested its capabilities and knowledge in migration and system renewal branch. FSC is the most competent partner in this branch in Finland and among the strongest in Scandinavia.
Methods and tools:
• Very high ROI. • Recycling the customers present capabilities• Minimal end user training needed: instant usage • Controlled and definite project• The tools and methods have many international references
Competitive Advantages
Software
Sub contractors
Methods
Service providers
FSC Oy service processes
Partners
Legacy Modernization projects
Support services
Business Model
• Anubex - migration tools and methods
• Alchemy Solutions - Cobol and migration tools
• Cobol-IT - Open source Cobol compiler and develoment tools
• HP - marketing co-operation
• Microsoft - partnership
• HTWC - migration tools
Partners
Referencies
“In 2014 we will be the leading expert and partner of system modernization services and
tools in Finland and well recognized in Scandinavia.”
The Vision