TMAXSOFT ENABLES DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AT FINNISH GOVERNMENT AGENCY WITH OPENFRAME - CASE STUDY
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CAS E ST UDY TmaxSoft enables Digital Transformation at Finnish government agency with OpenFrame
Kela is the Finnish government agency responsible for the distribution
of social security benefits, including pensions, sickness and housing
benefits, and health insurance. Kela manages around 40 different
benefits payments and distributes approximately €14 billion to Finnish
citizens annually.
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CUSTOMER NAME
The challenge
Kela Kela’s mainframe, which comprises the core
of its IT infrastructure, is one of the oldest and
students no longer learn how to work with them.
At the same time, we are trying develop our
largest in the Nordic region and has been in online and digital offering to be able to provide
INDUSTRY
use for decades. But while its mainframe has best-in-class services to the Finnish public,
Government served the organization well over the years, Kela
started to recognize that it could not support
but found that we were unable to do so due to
the inflexible nature of our infrastructure.”
social security
its long-term ambitions for two main reasons.
However, while the organization could have
The first related to maintenance burden of
rewritten the apps on its mainframe and develop
the mainframe itself, which was becoming
a completely new environment, this was not
increasingly difficult and costly to keep running.
a viable option. Markku explains: “The programs
The second related to Kela’s digital ambitions,
and databases on our mainframes use over 10
which were being hamstrung by its mainframe.
million lines of PL/1 code. We do not have the
Markku Suominen, ICT Director at Kela, discusses resources to edit this quantity of programming,
the challenges of using this technology: and we also knew that asking our talented
“Mainframes are very big and expensive to run, coders to rewrite millions of lines of code would
costing us about €8 million per year and we be very demotivating for them. We needed
recognized that those costs would only increase. a new environment that would enable us to
There is now a severe shortage of personnel in leverage the skills of our staff and maintain our
Finland that are trained to maintain mainframes, existing applications, which is why we decided to
because the technology is now so outdated that simply re-host the mainframe with TmaxSoft.”
CHALLENGES
• Needed to reduce cost of maintaining
outdated mainframe technology
• Lacked skills to perform maintenance
The solution
and development Working with local integrator CGI, Kela he continued. “By that I mean you shouldn’t do
opted to migrate its existing programs and any developing during it. You have to know what
• Required flexibility to develop databases from the mainframe to a new, you’re moving, and where are you moving it. If
new applications to offer better multi-tiered x86 environment using TmaxSoft’s you add some new features or new capabilities,
customer service OpenFrame. Markku explained: “We wanted things won’t work as they should do.”
to find a software solution that could provide
OpenFrame not only provides greater flexibility
the same high availability and continuous
TMAXSOFT SOLUTION for Kela to add new online services, it ensures
usage that we had on the mainframe. When
optimum performance from existing programs by
OpenFrame and TmaxSoft and OpenFrame were introduced to
removing code that has never been executed and
us we found out that they were exceptionally
operating on faster, newer hardware. OpenFrame
associated components similar, and met our architectural needs.”
also incorporates a test tool, so that Kela can be
OpenFrame enables its users to transfer reassured that its software and applications will
R E S U LT S programs from mainframes to Linux/UNIX be fully operational without its staff having to
hardware without making any adjustments to learn how to setup and use a third-party test tool.
• A smooth re-hosting service onto
the underlying code. This was a key selling point
a more flexible platform with Looking ahead to the completion of the project,
for Kela as it was crucial that its CICS (Customer
no requirement to redevelop Markku says: “When we have completed
Information Control System) programs, which
or modify applications the re-hosting in 2019 we will be switch off
process high-volumes of online transactions,
the mainframe and operate solely from
• Annual run costs reduced by 75% moved smoothly into the new environment so
the re‑hosted environment. This will take
• Facility for development of new that Finnish citizens could continue to access
our costs down considerably, from around
applications and programs Kela’s web services and their benefits. Critically,
€8 million a year today to €2 million. That
OpenFrame also provides web servers, web
• Improved customer experience enables us to take some of that money that
application servers, mainframe-level security
we save, to make it into the change budget, to
features, as well as facilitating data migration.
actually increase the speed of the change.
Markku added: “When you’re moving from a
“We pride ourselves on providing the very best
mainframe to a re-hosted environment with
customer service,” Markku concluded. “It was
Tmax OpenFrame, you’re gaining actually
very important for us to re-host our existing
something that we haven’t seen in other solutions.
programs with OpenFrame, not just because
You’re gaining the ability to continue with the
we wanted to save money on maintaining the
same terminology, so just when you lift, and
mainframe, but because it gives us the flexibility
you shift, they do the same for your staff. You
to provide the latest online services to our
don’t have to teach the new terms; they can
users. We know that our users are becoming
actually continue as they always have done.
more digitally-focused and OpenFrame gives
Moreover, we are able to maintain the code, we
us the opportunity to be there with them, ready
still own the code, even though there are small
for the next phase of digital transformation.”
changes, so we still have the feel of ownership.
“When you’re doing a re-hosting, the key thing to
remember is that you should only lift and shift,”
tmaxsoft.com 3When you’re moving from a
mainframe to a re-hosted environment
with Tmax OpenFrame, you’re gaining
actually something that we haven’t
seen in other solutions. You’re gaining
the ability to continue with the same
terminology, so just when you lift, and
you shift, they do the same for your
staff. You don’t have to teach the new
terms; they can actually continue as
they always have done. Moreover,
we are able to maintain the code,
we still own the code, even though
there are small changes, so we still
have the feel of ownership. TmaxSoft is a global software innovator focused on data
management, middleware and mainframe modernization,
We pride ourselves on providing
the very best customer service. It was
with solutions that offer enterprise CIOs viable alternatives
very important for us to re-host our to support their global IT powerhouses and drive
existing programs with OpenFrame,
not just because we wanted to save competitive advantage. TmaxSoft has based its growth on
money on maintaining the mainframe,
but because it gives us the flexibility
a strong foundation of research and development, along
to provide the latest online services to with a sustained commitment to innovation. Today, we
our users. We know that our users are
becoming more digitally-focused and are working with over 2,000 customers around the world.
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Markku Suominen
ICT Director, Kela OpenFrame is a legacy rehosting solution that enables mainframe applications,
resources and data to be migrated to a less expensive, high performance open system
while reducing TCO, and minimizing risk of migration, all in very short timeframes.
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