Case Study: GE Capital reduces costs and improves agility with TmaxSoft OpenFrame

GE Capital reduces costs by 66% and improves agility by rehosting its mainframe with OpenFrame

GE Capital, the financial services unit of General Electric, needed to move its critical Portfolio Management System (PMS) from an aging mainframe environment running ADS/O and COBOL/IDMS to a more modern Unix-based platform without changing the user interface. With millions of account schedules, hundreds of interfaces, and thousands of users relying on the system, GE Capital faced high risk, high maintenance costs, and limited agility. Vendor TmaxSoft was selected to help modernize the environment using its OpenFrame mainframe rehosting solution.

TmaxSoft, working with its partner Modern Systems, rehosted the PMS applications and data onto Unix using OpenFrame, with no need to redevelop or significantly modify the applications. The project was completed in about a year and delivered major benefits: annual run costs dropped by 66%, disaster recovery time improved by 240%, and the application footprint shrank by 78% from 71 million lines of code to 16 million. GE Capital also gained a more reliable, flexible, and automated platform that improved user experience and created a foundation for future SOA-based modernization.

GE Capital

Marc Rubel

Executive Director of Application Development