Ajilon's client, a large government department, wanted to migrate its existing application portfolio from the mainframe environment to a comparable Unix and NT hosting facility. Applications were to be converted to run on the new environment and no changes were made to the general function or "look and feel" of the applications.

Ajilon was required to co-ordinate a large number of transition activities, project resources (internal and external), development of business cases, redevelopment of infrastructure to mission critical completion dates. This client is responsible for the orderly licensing and management of Mineral Titles, Petroleum Titles, Dangerous Goods, and Mine Safety, in addition to a number of whole-of-state resource and business development activities and used mainframe bureau services to operate approximately 20 key applications.

The project had several discrete aspects involving in-house activities as well as third-party vendors. It was necessary to manage the project so that there was a suitable transition out from the existing mainframe support contract, redevelopment of the systems portfolio, and transition in to an operations solution which included in-house staff, contractors and new managed service provider. Ajilon played a leading role in:

• Phase 1 - Migration
• Phase 2 - Conversion of Applications
• Phase 3 - Development of New Environment

Ajilon was also responsible for:

• Prioritisation of risks
• Development and execution of a Communications Plan
• Coordination of Project Execution and Change Management

Ajilon's involvement and highly professional services helped secure a range of business benefits, including:

• New legacy systems operations environment with significant cost savings p.a.
• Significatn savings in the use of some in-house resources
• Flexibility to more rapidly tailor applications to changing business needs
• Provision of better services to external customers - services able to be tailored around new platforms
• Reduction in number of IT environments - three down to two