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CAS E ST UDY GE Capital reduces costs by 66% and improves agility by rehosting its mainframe with OpenFrame
GE Capital is the financial services unit of the global conglomerate
General Electric. It provides commercial lending and leasing, as well as
a range of financial services for consumers. Most of GE Capital’s
commercial loans are to small and midsized companies, spread across
multiple industries and geographies, and secured by tangible assets.
GE Capital’s consumer lending activities are also diversified by product
and geography and include operations in 55 countries.
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The challenge
GE Capital GE Capital was looking to move its Portfolio With over five million account schedules, 382
Management System (PMS) suite of applications interfaces, 1,700 concurrent users, and 3.5
INDUSTRY from ADS/O and COBOL/IDMS running on a million transactions per day running against
mainframe, to COBOL running with Oracle 71 million lines of code, the PMS system had
Financial on Unix without changing the user interface
in the process. PMS was built by GE Capital
come a long way from its humble roots.
However, using such a legacy system to support
Services in 1987 and began its life as a 20,000 account
schedule system without any interfaces.
GE Capital’s whole business was incredibly risky;
if PMS went down, the business went with it.
As with most homegrown systems, it was built “PMS is the sun in the universe of the GE Capital
out of necessity and to serve the business as it leasing business. This is a system that if it goes
existed at the time. Over the decades, this small down, we are out of business at a very expensive
system grew in size and complexity to become cost,” explained Marc Rubel, Executive Director
the central nervous system of both GE Capital’s of Application Development at GE Capital.
direct and indirect business units comprised
of four highly customized implementations.
The solution
CHALLENGES
To tackle this project, GE Capital selected of code and we really wanted to see what
• Need to reduce risk for GE Capital’s TmaxSoft to deliver the solution. TmaxSoft the compile and promote process inside of
PMS system and improve agility worked with its partner ATERAS, which merged OpenFrame looked like.” To the delight of
• Aging legacy mainframe hardware with Blue Phoenix in 2014 and is now named Rubel and his team, the proof of concept
Modern Systems, for the IDMS to CICS conversion on OpenFrame demonstrated that the
• High maintenance and procurement
costs work, and used its OpenFrame solution for target code was well-formed and easily
rehosting the converted applications on Unix. maintainable, and the IDMS database converted
• Excessive complexity slowing
as they expected with no surprises.
GE Capital’s ability to innovate OpenFrame is TmaxSoft’s complete
mainframe rehosting solution that moves The modernization of GE Capital’s PMS application
mainframe applications into a multi-tiered, suite and the data that drove it with OpenFrame
TMAXSOFT SOLUTION x86 environment. For GE Capital, OpenFrame took around a year to complete. The 71 million
provided various components to emulate the lines-of-code system moved from an ancient
OpenFrame and functionality of the different sections of the mainframe environment to a modern and open
associated components mainframe (CICS COBOL emulation, batch Unix environment with astonishing results. GE
processing, etc.) and was the ultimate landing Capital’s annual run cost for the PMS system and
place for the new open systems environment related applications fell by 66%, the time it took
R E S U LT S hosting the PMS suite of applications. for PMS to recover from disaster decreased by
• A smooth rehosting service onto 240%, and the overall application footprint shrunk
GE Capital chose to test drive the TmaxSoft
a more reliable, flexible and by 78%. While the cost savings were enormous,
and Modern Systems technologies through a
automated platform with no the most positive result for Rubel was moving to a
requirement to redevelop or modify proof of concept. “We spent a very little amount
platform that integrated easily with the rest of the
applications of time and money,” recalled Marc Rubel.
business that supported growth and innovation.
“And we completed a proof of concept within
• Annual maintenance costs reduced
a month. We converted a small amount
by 66%
• Reduced PMS application suite code
from 71 million lines to only 16 million
• Improved employee user experience
and greater agility
• Established the foundation for
building the next generation PMS
system on SOA-based architecture
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One of my systems analysts was
attempting to help one of our users
with a data problem. He searched high
and low, driving himself crazy trying to
find it. After a number of screen shares
and troubleshooting steps, he realized
that while he thought he was on the
mainframe looking for this data, he was
actually on the newly re-platformed
Unix environment. In other words,
even my most senior guys, the guys
who designed and built the original
setup, couldn’t tell the difference
between that and OpenFrame!
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Marc Rubel
Executive Director of
management, middleware and mainframe modernization,
Application Development with solutions that offer enterprise CIOs viable alternatives
GE Capital
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