REDWOOD CITY, CA, February 15, 2007. Taurus Software, a leading developer of data migration, transformation and business intelligence solutions for Ecometry users and other verticals, announced it was recently picked to help express delivery giant Freightways execute a massive data migration initiative using HP Integrity servers and Bridgeware
Freightways Information Services (FIS) wanted to move the best elements of its critical legacy applications and data from an HP 3000 environment to a new system built on HP Integrity servers. The challenge was doing so while maintaining service leadership and retaining the value of Freightways’ investment in existing IT assets. To make things even more complex, Freightways had to factor in its highly distributed network of field offices, which ruled out a single, full-blown migration.
The answer was a phased implementation built around Taurus Software’s renowned data migration solution, BridgeWare.
"With this phased approach we must be able to move data back and forth between our legacy environment and the new infrastructure," says Freightways Information Services General Manager, Richard Mitchell-Lowe.
BridgeWare combined with HP Integrity servers allowed Freightways to migrate both legacy and real-time data contained in five HP IMAGE databases directly into a form usable by their new Oracle 10g database solution, keeping both IMAGE and Oracle in perfect sync throughout the entire process-which involves some 300 million records, and will likely extend through the end of 2007.
"Freightways is benefiting from one of BridgeWare’s key benefits - the ability to run a seamless, trouble-free migration," notes Cailean Sherman, President of Taurus Software. "BridgeWare and Integrity servers make it easy to move your data between various databases and the Web with minimal system impact."
"In migrating to new server systems downtime is simply not an option," said Michelle Weiss, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. "The combination of HP Integrity servers and BridgeWare ensured Freightways underwent a seamless transition with high availability at the core of their successful migration."
For a company like Freightways - which has a well-deserved reputation for getting things from Point A to Point B, the transition promises to be very rewarding.
About Freightways
The Freightways Group (www.freightways.co.nz) provides express-package services, information management, and business mail services. It employs an effective multi-brand strategy via its New Zealand Couriers, Post Haste Couriers, and Castle Parcels brands. Freightways also serves the point-to-point segment through its SUB60 brand and secure express-package services through Security Express.
About Taurus Software
Taurus Software (www.taurus.com) has been "making data liquid" since 1985. Taurus' products are the fastest, easiest way to select, extract, manipulate and move data between platforms to synchronize applications, populate data warehouses, build sales data marts, analyze data, support Web servers, or meet any other need. Bridgeware is a joint product venture between Taurus Software and Quest Software (www.quest.com)
Taurus is also a member of the HP e3000 Transition Partners Program and also has technology partnerships with Quest Software, Lund Performance Solutions, Managed Business Solutions, Ecometry Alliance partner, Orbit Software, Pathway Pacific, Amisys Synertec Inc. and Acumium.
For more information on Taurus Software products, call 650-482-2022 Ext. 1. Or visit www.taurus.com.
