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Ziip Ahoy: Full Speed Ahead for Dataport’s Mainframes

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Predictive Maintenance
Services	System Integration Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Dataport, a pioneer in providing IT and communication services for government agencies in Germany, was facing several challenges. The company was tasked with digitalizing public administration, which was a significant undertaking. Additionally, they were dealing with ongoing high costs associated with throttled processors. The utilization of mainframe capacity was increasing, and there was a growing demand due to new customers. The company was also considering accepting Saxony-Anhalt as a new customer, which would further strain their mainframe capacity. Read More
About Customer	Dataport is a service provider responsible for the telephone and data communication, administrative applications, data security, and tax administration for several states and municipalities in Germany. The company is a pioneer in providing IT and communication services for government agencies. With 2,500 employees, Dataport manages approximately 90,000 digital workspaces in six states and 70 communities. The company operates 5,000 servers and four mainframes, handling approximately 17,000 TB of data. In 2016, the company's revenues exceeded €507 million. Read More
Solution	To address these challenges, Dataport turned to Software AG's solutions. They implemented the Database Management System powered by Adabas, Application Development powered by Natural, and Application Modernization powered by Adabas & Natural and EntireX. A key part of the solution was the use of IBM's zIIP (z Systems Integrated Information Processor). By shifting the workload to the zIIP processors, the main processors were freed up and could be used for external clients without upgrading equipment and obtaining IBM licenses. This effectively solved the mainframe capacity problem. The zIIP enablement significantly improved mainframe capacity by offloading the Natural-supported batch and online workload from the GPP to an IBM zIIP. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Predictive Maintenance

Services

System Integration

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Dataport, a pioneer in providing IT and communication services for government agencies in Germany, was facing several challenges. The company was tasked with digitalizing public administration, which was a significant undertaking. Additionally, they were dealing with ongoing high costs associated with throttled processors. The utilization of mainframe capacity was increasing, and there was a growing demand due to new customers. The company was also considering accepting Saxony-Anhalt as a new customer, which would further strain their mainframe capacity.

About Customer

Dataport is a service provider responsible for the telephone and data communication, administrative applications, data security, and tax administration for several states and municipalities in Germany. The company is a pioneer in providing IT and communication services for government agencies. With 2,500 employees, Dataport manages approximately 90,000 digital workspaces in six states and 70 communities. The company operates 5,000 servers and four mainframes, handling approximately 17,000 TB of data. In 2016, the company's revenues exceeded €507 million.

Solution

To address these challenges, Dataport turned to Software AG's solutions. They implemented the Database Management System powered by Adabas, Application Development powered by Natural, and Application Modernization powered by Adabas & Natural and EntireX. A key part of the solution was the use of IBM's zIIP (z Systems Integrated Information Processor). By shifting the workload to the zIIP processors, the main processors were freed up and could be used for external clients without upgrading equipment and obtaining IBM licenses. This effectively solved the mainframe capacity problem. The zIIP enablement significantly improved mainframe capacity by offloading the Natural-supported batch and online workload from the GPP to an IBM zIIP.

Impact #1	The load on the main processor has decreased massively for all applications as a whole.
Impact #2	Batch runtimes have been significantly reduced.
Impact #3	The deployment proceeded without technical problems overall.

Impact #1

The load on the main processor has decreased massively for all applications as a whole.

Impact #2

Batch runtimes have been significantly reduced.

Impact #3

The deployment proceeded without technical problems overall.

Benefit #1	Load on main processors reduced by up to 99 percent (Natural components).
Benefit #2	CPU times for a payroll run dropped in some instances from 90 CPU minutes to just 20 minutes.

Benefit #1

Load on main processors reduced by up to 99 percent (Natural components).

Benefit #2

CPU times for a payroll run dropped in some instances from 90 CPU minutes to just 20 minutes.

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Ziip Ahoy: Full Speed Ahead for Dataport’s Mainframes

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