Case Study: SalesPro Technologies, Inc. achieves 3-month ROI and $100,000 savings with OpenText

Leading food distributor delivers mobile and web solutions, through core business innovation achieves ROI in three months

Curtze, a 130‑year‑old foodservice distributor based in Erie, PA, and its SalesPro Technologies division faced a competitive threat: customers expected web and mobile applications, but the company’s business logic sat in a large COBOL codebase (thousands of programs). The challenge was to modernize user interfaces and go mobile without discarding proven backend COBOL systems.

Curtze adopted Micro Focus Xcentrisity Business Information Server and extend to expose COBOL as web services, enabling SOA-based web and mobile UIs while preserving existing business rules. The rollout improved performance and scalability (thousands of orders processed concurrently), boosted usability tenfold, helped retain and win customers, saved about $100,000 in the first year, and delivered ROI in three months.

SalesPro Technologies, Inc.

Anthony Darden

Vice President