BluePhoenix Solutions Awarded a Multi-Million Dollar Contract by IBM to Modernize Mission Critical Systems of a Global Tier 1 Retail Chain

BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ:BPHX), the leader in value-driven legacy modernization, today announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar modernization contract for a global Tier 1 retail chain by IBM.

BluePhoenix is partnering with IBM to integrate, synchronize, convert, and remediate the customer's disparate legacy purchase order systems, including associated applications and technologies. BluePhoenix will modernize the databases from legacy IMS and VSAM systems to an IBM DB2 environment providing the customer with improved productivity with a lower cost of ownership.

"We are very pleased to work with IBM to modernize and integrate these mission critical systems which are core to their customer's business," said Yaron Tchwella, CEO, BluePhoenix Solutions. "Our partnership with IBM continues to strengthen as we continue to work together to modernize their customers to state of the art IBM technology. The end customer is well known for its leadership and we are honored to have been selected to modernize one of their critical systems."

About BluePhoenix Solutions

BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ:BPHX) is the leading provider of value-driven legacy IT modernization solutions. The BluePhoenix portfolio includes a comprehensive suite of tools and services from global IT asset assessment and impact analysis to automated database and application migration, rehosting, and renewal. Leveraging over 20 years of best-practice domain expertise, BluePhoenix works closely with its customers to ascertain which assets should be migrated, redeveloped, or wrapped for reuse as services or business processes, to protect and increase the value of their business applications and legacy systems with minimized risk and downtime.

BluePhoenix provides modernization solutions to companies from diverse industries and vertical markets such as automotive, banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and retail. Among its prestigious customers are: Aflac, Capita Group, CareFirst, Citigroup, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, Desjardins, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, Rabobank, Rural Servicios Informaticos, SDC Udvikling, TEMENOS, Toyota, and Volvofinans. BluePhoenix has 14 offices in the USA, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Cyprus, South Korea, Australia, and Israel.

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