Case Study: Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions achieves lower maintenance costs and a stronger ROI with Advanced's OpenVMS migration to Windows

Balfour Beatty Successfully Migrates Bespoke Openvms Product Design System to Windows

Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions faced rising maintenance costs and the risk of running a business-critical product design system on a proprietary DEC VAX/OpenVMS platform. To address this, Balfour Beatty worked with Advanced on an OpenVMS application migration project to move the bespoke design suite to a more flexible Windows environment.

Advanced first carried out a PathFinder assessment, then used its migration toolset to automate most of the ALGOL and Fortran code migration to Windows Server 2003. The project was delivered to a fixed budget, required no user retraining, and helped Balfour Beatty reduce costs, lower risk, and continue improving the system with an increasing return on investment.

Balfour Beatty

Alan King

Chief Engineer