Orange County Transportation Authority Challenge
With 11 different databases acquired over years of mergers and re-organizations, the Orange County Transportation Authority adopted a strategy of centralized computing, standardizing on the world’s leading DBMS, Oracle.
"We lead in the nation’s transportation industry", stated William Mao, Manager of Information Systems for the Authority, "We follow leaders in the IT industry; Oracle leads, we follow".
Understanding the value of the Authority’s core-business systems that run on IBM’s UniVerse, Ray Riggins, Manager of Application Development, looked for a solution that would preserve the mission critical applications and allow him to move to Oracle.
"I thought about this problem for months. The development of these applications was a 26 man-year effort, refined over 13 years. Re-engineering was not an option. The funny thing is, I had the solution sitting on my desk, in a flyer I had been moving around with no time to read. ON Corp claimed they could preserve my UniVerse applications and run them directly on Oracle Server, and they proved it. We started by compiling all the applications to find any land mines then chose a pilot application as a proof of concept, signed off on Jan 12, 2001, the next step was a detailed project plan, then execution. We chose to move an application at a time to limit risk and disruption. The first application went live on Oracle Feb 02, 2001, the last of the 13 applications on June 13, 2001", described Riggins.
With their core-business systems now running live on Oracle, the Authority is making decisions using state-of-the art reporting tools, such as Crystal Reports, integrating mainstream packaged solutions and introducing web based tools.
"The best compliment I can give ON Corp" stated Mao, "is to freely offer to be a reference. ON didn’t ask for the reference, I offered it."
ON Corp is helping organizations like OCTA who have a need to re-deploy business applications developed on one of the common MultiValue DBMS, such as IBM’s UniVerse and UniData, PI/Open and Pick varieties such as D3, on relational DBMS such as Oracle and SQL Server. ON’s suite of products and services transform applications, without change, to run independently of the database, operating system and user interface; running legacy applications directly on the operating system of choice and performing I/O concurrently with multiple choices of databases.
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