UniVerse application environment migrated to Oracle, without re-engineering.
Faced with escalating requirements by Homeland Security, growing difficulty sharing data with the public, the Federal Government, and additional county departments, along with the need to incorporate modern technology solutions, Suffolk County, NY (SCNY) mandated a consolidation of their UniVerse system to Oracle DBMS.
Suffolk County has had a long-standing relationship with ONgroup, dating from the early 1990’s. Using technology from ONgroup they developed in-house mission critical systems with non-technical people—mainly Steven Costa, a Civil Engineer and Patricia Floria, an Aeronautical engineer.
“Our end users are technical specialists working out in the field on waste water management projects, pollution control, hazardous materials, and such. They may access the application via laptop or the internet. The analysts are looking for better ways to mine the data. Faced with something they do not currently have, they say, “…if we were on Oracle…” describes Costa. “Once the Oracle decision was made, we were unsuccessful in getting estimates to re-write with Oracle, including applications from Oracle. Anything we did find was lacking in features and had very high costs.”
“We were please to hear that ONgroup was able to provide ONware™, the technology we needed to move from UniVerse to Oracle”, stated Costa. “The easiest part of the migration from UniVerse to Oracle was moving the data. With ONware, the data converts almost instantaneously! We were much relieved with minimal modifications to program objects”, states Costa. “I’d say the biggest issues that came up had nothing to do with Oracle or ONware, they were the differences in how printing is handled by the operating systems when going from a Unix platform to Windows”.
Suffolk County, NY has been building highly customized, mission-critical applications with ONware and MultiValue DBMS tools, such as Prime INFORMATION and UniVerse, since the early 1990’s. With user-friendly technology and a keen desire to meet the needs of the various agencies, “[…we have been able to develop, in-house, with non-technical people]”, states Costa. “The applications fit nicely, like a glove. The people who use the systems developed them. Costa, and Floria, acted as the primary architects and developers of the county’s Water Resource, Waste Water Management, Hazardous Materials, and Pollution Control and other systems.
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