Microsoft® Solution Brief

A low-risk path for getting off your UNIX platform

With a Microsoft Enterprise Platform Modernization Solution. Controlling costs and preserving investments on a UNIX platform is more challenging every day. Microsoft offers modernization solutions tailored to your business needs.

Solution overview platform to Windows and SQL Server. Together, “Because we can If you’re like other UNIX-based businesses, you’ve we can establish the best possible migration used UNIX and Windows for years. For your noncritical scenario and ensure its successful execution. do more for less tasks, you used Windows; for business-critical tasks, We offer a compelling alternative that provides with SAP on you used UNIX. Perhaps you took this approach, enterprise capability without the high maintenance because UNIX used to offer superior reliability, costs of the UNIX platform and databases. Windows instead availability, serviceability and security (RAS+S). Times of UNIX, we can have changed, and Windows has caught up with A move that will benefit you now UNIX in terms of RAS+S. More importantly, you’re By acting now, you’ll realize significant benefits. increase our probably looking to meet four important goals: cut For example, the Microsoft® Windows Server™ responsiveness costs, respond quickly to change, find developers and environment gives you all the RAS+S of the UNIX while streamlining expand your vendor options. platform while lowering your overall costs. Windows® Server® 2008, SQL Server® 2008 offers proven our cost base.” A legacy modernization solution rehosting technology with performance and scalability that works for you that exceeds most legacy UNIX platforms. In addition, Dwight Custis Microsoft and its partners offer a UNIX platform Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System 2008 with VP of IT for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control modernization solution that will lower your costs by Team Foundation® Server provides a collaborative addressing your specific challenges. Whether you platform for team-based application development and need a business intelligence migration, a packaged maintenance. application migration, a database migration to SQL Server or a custom application rehost, Microsoft can A future that delivers on its promises help you to select and implement the right solution. Microsoft and its partners offer a low-risk solution for In addition, Microsoft tools are well understood by a moving to a cost-effective, agile platform that most large base of developers. Consequently, you’ll enjoy of today’s developers understand. At last, you’ll open lower development costs and an improved response to your options to a competitive market of vendors, and rapid business changes. you can significantly lower your costs while getting all the RAS+S you need. Finally, you’ll have a future that Microsoft and Scalability Experts— delivers on its promises. Why wait any longer? The enterprise power without the UNIX price time to act is now. Application migration goes hand in hand with database migration. Data migration is the process Your next step of transferring data, data storage structures, server- Contact your Microsoft account manager or the side logic and process from database platforms Microsoft Enterprise Platform Modernization to SQL Server. With partners such as Scalability organization. For NA and LATAM, contact Michael Dee Experts, Microsoft can reduce the cost and risk Hester ([email protected]). For EMEA, contact of database migration. The Microsoft Enterprise Lars Mikaelsson ([email protected]). Platform Modernization organization works closely with Scalability Experts for the benefit of companies that want to move from a UNIX

Microsoft® Solution Brief How does Microsoft stack Benefits at a glance • High levels of Reliability, up to your UNIX platform? Availability, Serviceability and Security (RAS+S)

• UNIX style scripting UNIX platform Partner solutions Microsoft platform and integration with ▪ High TCO ▪ Low TCO the Subsystem for Unix ▪ By system Rehost ▪ By design Applications (SUA) ▪ Maintenance driven ▪ Business driven development environment ▪ Rigid Rewrite ▪ Agile ▪ Proprietary ▪ Well understood • Excellent price, performance ▪ Specialized knowledge ▪ Wide vendor support and value for applications Retire Replace ® ® ▪ Limited vendor support ▪ Multi-core servers on Windows Server 2008 ® ▪ RISC-based servers and data in Microsoft SQL Server® 2008

• Improved development Interoperability productivity with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 with Team Foundation Server The Microsoft platform stacks up to UNIX performance and functionality in every way while lowering your costs and increasing your agility. In addition, you’ll have a platform that is better understood by today’s • Interoperability with developers and enables you to take advantage of a greater variety of hardware and software vendors. Instead Microsoft® BizTalk® Server of being IT driven, you’ll be business driven. If your applications meet your needs but your UNIX platform is too costly, Microsoft and its partners can rehost them on a Microsoft platform. If your applications aren’t and Microsoft Host meeting your needs, we can assist you in rewriting them, determining which ones to replace with commercial Integration Server solutions or which ones to retire. We can also help you to ensure interoperability with your UNIX platform until you’re completely modernized.

Microsoft solution stack

Business intelligence migration Packaged application migration Database migration Custom application rehost Using investments you have already SAP customers can be confident to SQL Server Custom application rehosting made, Microsoft BI solutions improve in choosing Windows® Server® Using SQL Server as the heart of makes the most of your existing performance by driving better 2008 and SQL Server to increase your data services can significantly application investments while decision making through familiar performance and reduce the cost reduce your IT costs. Microsoft SQL significantly reducing the cost of interfaces. For example, Microsoft® of their infrastructure. Because of Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is your infrastructure. The rehost Office Suite® 2007 provides familiar its integration with SAP, 42% of all a tool for migrating Access, Oracle solution includes several Microsoft productivity tools such as Microsoft new SAP customers choose SQL and Sybase ASE database objects to products: SQL Server, Windows Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Server over any other database. Microsoft SQL Server. SSMA converts Server, System Center Operations Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server® According to a recent Wipro study, database objects (including stored Manager, Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2007 offers dashboard capabilities Migrating an SAP/ERP environment procedures) to SQL Server database 2008 Team System with Team and Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 to Microsoft SQL Server can reduce objects, loads those objects into Foundation Server, database and offers reporting and analysis unplanned downtime by over 20%, SQL Server, migrates data from the business intelligence tools, OS, services. cut IT labor costs by nearly 25% and legacy database to SQL Server, and system monitoring tools, Application cut ongoing software support costs then validates the migration of code Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools • Surrounding the existing business up to 85%. and data. and application development tools intelligence (BI) infrastructure and third Party partner products. with SharePoint Server 2007 and • SAP Migration from UNIX and IBM • UNIX Oracle and Sybase Microsoft Office 2007/2010. mainframe environments to SAP migrations to SQL Server on • Migration of UNIX applications running on Windows Server with Windows Server. in languages such as C, C++ and • IBM DB2/Cognos migration SQL Server. FORTRAN to SQL Server and to Microsoft SQL Server using • Legacy database migrations: Windows Server. reporting and analysis services. • Migration from other packaged moving data from databases such applications running on UNIX such as DB2, VSAM, Adabas, IDMS, • Migration of COBOL/CICS/DB2 • Oracle migration to Microsoft as Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Datacom and IMS to SQL Server applications to Microsoft SQL SQL Server. and Oracle Fusion etc. to Dynamic on Windows Server via our partner Server and Windows Server via our CRM and XRM Windows Server ecosystem. partner ecosystem. with SQL Server.

Microsoft® Solution Brief