testimonial
“The Avon Company’s decision to decommission the mainframe was driven by a business imperative to exit the data center business. At the same time, we had to ensure that the integrity of the business-critical batch processing from IMIS was retained. Heirloom Computing’s cloud-native solution delivered on all the requirements with ease.”
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WhoRick Boyle
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RoleVP IT
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Company
project
overview
The Avon Company, a global beauty leader connecting people through affordable innovation and expertise, faced a strategic business imperative to exit the data center business while preserving their mission-critical marketing operations.
Their Integrated Marketing Information System (IMIS), a bespoke IBM mainframe application with no viable alternative outside the mainframe environment, required seamless migration to AWS without disrupting the business-critical batch processing that supports Avon's global marketing campaigns and collateral distribution.
Partnering with Heirloom and implementation teams from Cognizant, Avon embarked on a 7-month transformation to replatform 1.3 million lines of COBOL, Assembler, CICS, Db2, and MQ code through automated refactoring to cloud-native infrastructure on AWS.
Their Integrated Marketing Information System (IMIS), a bespoke IBM mainframe application with no viable alternative outside the mainframe environment, required seamless migration to AWS without disrupting the business-critical batch processing that supports Avon's global marketing campaigns and collateral distribution.
Partnering with Heirloom and implementation teams from Cognizant, Avon embarked on a 7-month transformation to replatform 1.3 million lines of COBOL, Assembler, CICS, Db2, and MQ code through automated refactoring to cloud-native infrastructure on AWS.
outcomes
The migration delivered exceptional results for Avon's global operations, successfully achieving their strategic goal of completely exiting the data center business while enhancing operational efficiency.
The IMIS platform was seamlessly modernized to run as a cloud-native application on the Java platform deployed to AWS, maintaining full integrity of business-critical batch processing through a carefully managed parallel production period aligned with mainframe decommissioning milestones.
The transformation enabled complete decommissioning of Avon's IBM mainframe while reducing operational expenses by 65%, providing significant cost savings that support continued investment in beauty innovation and global market expansion.
This cloud-native solution positioned Avon with the scalable, flexible infrastructure needed to adapt quickly to changing market demands while maintaining the reliable marketing operations that connect millions of customers worldwide with their beauty products and expertise.
The IMIS platform was seamlessly modernized to run as a cloud-native application on the Java platform deployed to AWS, maintaining full integrity of business-critical batch processing through a carefully managed parallel production period aligned with mainframe decommissioning milestones.
The transformation enabled complete decommissioning of Avon's IBM mainframe while reducing operational expenses by 65%, providing significant cost savings that support continued investment in beauty innovation and global market expansion.
This cloud-native solution positioned Avon with the scalable, flexible infrastructure needed to adapt quickly to changing market demands while maintaining the reliable marketing operations that connect millions of customers worldwide with their beauty products and expertise.