testimonial
"Heirloom's platform and outstanding project team delivered on the promise of automatically transforming and deploying a complex mainframe workload to the JVM in 90 days."
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WhoTim Schwab
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RoleVP Enterprise Applications
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Company
project
overview
OCLC, a global library cooperative supporting thousands of libraries worldwide in advancing research, scholarship, and learning, faced a strategic imperative to enhance business agility while decommissioning their aging IBM mainframe infrastructure.
Their mission-critical online and batch applications, built on COBOL, CICS, JCL, and RACF, required rapid migration to modern infrastructure without disrupting essential library services that millions of researchers and students depend on globally.
Partnering exclusively with Heirloom, OCLC embarked on an ambitious 3-month transformation to replatform their applications to JBoss Application Servers running on Red Hat Linux hosted on VMware instances.
Their mission-critical online and batch applications, built on COBOL, CICS, JCL, and RACF, required rapid migration to modern infrastructure without disrupting essential library services that millions of researchers and students depend on globally.
Partnering exclusively with Heirloom, OCLC embarked on an ambitious 3-month transformation to replatform their applications to JBoss Application Servers running on Red Hat Linux hosted on VMware instances.
outcomes
The migration delivered remarkable results for OCLC's global library operations, completing in just 90 days and exceeding all expectations for speed and efficiency.
The mission-critical applications were successfully replatformed to run on JVM, enabling OCLC to completely decommission their IBM mainframe while maintaining uninterrupted service to thousands of member libraries worldwide.
The transformation delivered such significant operational improvements that OCLC realized full return on investment within just 6 months of project completion.
This rapid modernization positioned OCLC with enhanced business agility needed to continue innovating library technology services and supporting the evolving needs of research institutions and scholarly communities across the globe.
The mission-critical applications were successfully replatformed to run on JVM, enabling OCLC to completely decommission their IBM mainframe while maintaining uninterrupted service to thousands of member libraries worldwide.
The transformation delivered such significant operational improvements that OCLC realized full return on investment within just 6 months of project completion.
This rapid modernization positioned OCLC with enhanced business agility needed to continue innovating library technology services and supporting the evolving needs of research institutions and scholarly communities across the globe.