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In a strategic move to target larger companies, VSI, creator of manufacturing systems, ported its entire solution to the IBM® Enterprise Server (S/390®) platform. As a result of the port, VSI is able to address increasing demand in the ERP-based, supply chain market for integration techniques. VSI's manufacturing solution, Vertical Systems+ (VS+), can now easily integrate with S/390 systems and other existing applications, allowing its prospective customers to receive increased return on investment while implementing a manufacturing package that fits with the organization's current software.

This move was made easy with Compuware because VS+ is built in UNIFACE, Compuware's application development environment. VSI's technical staff exported repository and sample data without difficulty using UNIFACE's flexible utilities and drivers. The entire port, which was from a Solid database running on NT and/or AIX to DB2 V7.1 on the IBM S/390 platform, took less than four hours. VSI was able to execute its VS+ application on the S/390 immediately, with no changes to the application or data.

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