BluePhoenix Solutions Wins Multi-Million Dollar Contract by IBM

BluePhoenix Solutions, a developer of legacy modernization solutions, announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar modernization contract for a global Tier 1 retail chain by IBM.

According to BluePhoenix, the company is partnering with IBM to integrate, synchronize, convert, and remediate the customer's disparate legacy purchase order systems, including associated applications and technologies. BluePhoenix said it 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 eager 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 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."

The BluePhoenix portfolio includes a suite of tools and services from global IT asset assessment and impact analysis to automated database and application migration, rehosting, and renewal.

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