Visual COBOL helps Trasmediterranea Acciona

navigate to the Cloud

How modernization made the difference for Trasmediterranea Acciona

IT cost reduction of 20%

Return on investment within 18 months

Modernization project completed in less than nine months, improving time-to-market by 25%

More efficient modern application development environment

About Trasmediterranea AccionaCORE APPLICATION: Ticketing and boarding application, comprising of COBOL

batch processes and CICS transactions

Acciona is one of the leading

Spanish corporations, an operator

in infrastructures, energy, water

and services in over 30 countries.

Trasmediterranea is the largest

Spanish shipping company and

one of the largest in Europe.

Trasmediterranea links the main ports

of Spain with the Balearic and Canary

Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, and with

Morocco and Algeria, throughout

the year.

Trasmediterranea relied on its

mainframe to deliver ticketing

and boarding application services.

These core business services are

comprised of COBOL batch processes

and CICS transactions.

The business critical ticketing and boarding

application needed modernizing. Options for this

valuable application included rewriting, replacement,

retiring it and re-hosting to a different platform.

Rewriting or replacing the COBOL application would be

too costly and would take twice as long as reusing it.

Trasmediterranea was also keen to improve customer

service and enhance the user experience.

Trasmediterranea’s mainframe was an effective but

costly solution. With a steady increase in recurring

costs, Trasmediterranea needed a more versatile and

flexible approach; one which would reduce operational

costs and enable the adoption of new technologies.

Setting a course towards modernization

Visual COBOL for Visual Studio brings efficiency and cost savings Reusing existing COBOL mainframe

business functions in the Cloud saves

time, money, and reduces time to

market, from an original plan of twelve

months down to less than nine.

Micro Focus Visual COBOL enabled a

fast transition to a modern architecture

under .NET, providing a flexible

platform for future growth.

Re-use helped Trasmediterranea

meet project timelines and preserve

the capabilities of its business-

critical application.

Moving to the Cloud delivered a

unified web-based user interface, with

full integration of information, people

and processes.

Improvements in business operations

have realized a 20% saving in

infrastructure costs. In addition,

Visual COBOL created a collaborative

development environment.

Trasmediterranea reaches its destination

“Using Micro Focus Visual COBOL, we can reuse our critical COBOL application, which for us is by far the lowest risk route in taking this application to the cloud.”

Trasmediterranea Acciona

“Making our core logistics application available under Microsoft Azure, using Visual COBOL has not only dramatically reduced our costs, but it also helps position our applications in a more agile, modern architecture for the future.”

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