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Large Retail Store Chain Looks to QAT Global for Technology Upgrade
Moving from CA Gen 6.5 to 7.5 on a Mainframe
Customer Snapshot
- Large retail store chain based in the southeastern United States
- Revenue: $23 billion dollars
- 146,000 employees
Solution Snapshot
- Upgrade to CA Gen 7.5
- Knowledge and training provided for client’s developers and systems programmers
- Highly cost-effective
Key Differentiators
- CA Gen Expertise
- Upgrade experience
- CA Gen Training
Skills Needed
- CA Gen
The client had many large mission-critical CA Gen 6.5 blockmode, batch, and client-server applications requiring to be upgraded to a supported version of the CA Gen product. The client was very risk-averse and did not have in-depth knowledge of the new CA Gen 7.x release and the IBM Language Environment (LE).
QAT Global was brought in to lead the upgrade CA Gen upgrade.
QAT Global’s Approach
QAT Global devised a solution to upgrade the customer’s CA Gen 6.5 development environment and runtime environments including 3rd party software to CA Gen 7.5 while providing knowledge transfer to developers and systems programmers on the LE implications to their mainframe systems.
With QAT Global’s assistance, all their CA Gen systems and infrastructure to CA Gen 7.5 were successfully upgraded. The upgrade was performed under budget and went to product 3 weeks earlier than originally scheduled.
