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Visual COBOL helps City of Miami modernize and half its IT costs
How modernization made the difference for City of Miami
50% cost reduction in IT operations
Improved uptime and disaster recovery
Flexible system and faster response
Improves current and future emergency services
About City of MiamiINDUSTRY: State and Local Government
CORE APPLICATIONS: Fire Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
COUNTRY: USA
Recognized worldwide as an
international hub, the City of Miami is
the largest municipality in Miami-Dade
County, with a population of around
400,000 that swells to over a million
on working days.
The City of Miami Fire Rescue
Department provides rapid emergency
response and other services to save
lives and protect property.
The department relied upon an
emergency fire and medical dispatch
system which was state-of-the-art,
20 years ago.
Challenge: update a 20-year old CAD systemThe City of Miami’s Fire Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD)
mainframe-based system was stretched by the demands of
an increasing population, and was no longer able to integrate
smoothly with new systems and functionality. It also became
increasingly difficult and costly to maintain.
To move off the mainframe, the City of Miami had to decide
between re-hosting or re-writing all 80 applications and
180,000 lines of code to a modern platform.
The re-write would have taken between two and three years
with an estimated cost more than double that of re-hosting
the applications on a new platform. The chosen modernization
route enabled City of Miami to safely re-host this business
critical system in six months at a fraction of the cost.
Re-hosting to a modern, flexible platform
The application re-host improved current
processes and performance, and will also
enable City of Miami to improve future
emergency services, including automatic
vehicle location, global positioning and
emergency dispatch systems.
The City’s proprietary Unisys COBOL code was
converted to Micro Focus COBOL in order to
run on a Microsoft Windows environment.
This reduced the City of Miami’s IT costs by over
50%, saving at least $900,000 per year.
Re-host has enabled the City to eliminate
scheduled downtime for maintenance (up to four
hours per month previously), improve disaster
recovery by eliminating the single point of failure,
and update the system more quickly to meet
changing needs.
ORIGINAL PLATFORM: Unisys mainframe
APPLICATION RE-HOST TECHNOLOGY: Micro Focus Studio Enterprise Edition, Micro Focus Server Enterprise Edition
APPLICATION RE-HOST PARTNER: Astadia
Successful partnership
“The bottom line is that we do a better job of saving lives because we re-hosted our core COBOL applications from the mainframe a to distributed environment. The re-host project led by Astadia and Micro Focus enables us to not only improve our current processes and performance, but will be used in the future for emergency services.”
Kevin Burns, Information Systems ManagerCity of Miami Fire Rescue Department
“The partnership we have with Micro Focus is a clear example of how we are continually looking to improve efficiencies for our customers. The success realized at the City of Miami is a testament to the relationship Astadia has with Micro Focus.”
Steve Ziff President, Astadia
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Read the complete City of Miami success story in the case study.
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