Case Study: Simon & Schuster modernizes mainframe operations with Adaptigent’s Intelligent Transformation Platform

Simon & Schuster’s Mainframe Migration Success

Publishing company Simon & Schuster faced the challenge of migrating its mission-critical mainframe applications, which managed the distribution of hundreds of millions of books, to a more agile and cost-effective platform. Their existing systems could not support the speed of modern, on-demand publishing and were becoming prohibitively expensive to maintain. To solve this, they partnered with vendor Adaptigent and utilized its Intelligent Transformation Platform alongside Fujitsu NetCOBOL.

Adaptigent's solution enabled Simon & Schuster to port its five million lines of COBOL code to the Microsoft .NET Framework, preserving its core business logic while modernizing the infrastructure. The results were significant, including an estimated 80% cost savings over other options, a 75% reduction in trouble tickets, and a drastic improvement in order fulfillment from minutes to seconds. The project also cut the nightly batch processing window in half and reduced the company's overall IT budget by 11%.

Simon & Schuster

Anne Lloyd Davies

Chief Information Officer