CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

Strategy to modernize large customizedERP solution with Uniface has paid off forMinnesota State Colleges & Universities.

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is the fifth largest system of public colleges and universities

in America.

It consists of 31 institutions with 54 campuses across the state and serves more 410,000 students each

year.

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

The Uniface ChallengeModernizing their mission-critical ERP system built in the early 1990’s to improve user experience (UX)

and to move towards being a web-enabled organization.

MnSCU to maintain legacy platforms while moving to new technology using Uniface’s powerful

integration capabilities.

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

Building a web version was quite straightforward with Uniface. We didn’t have to re-write the business logic, and it ended up being a pretty quick-win for us to get the application deployed.”

Dave Willford, Application Development Manager, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

The Uniface SolutionUniface aided seamless application integration with

MnSCU IT technology infrastructure.

Uniface applications running on an OpenVMS operating system, integrated with an Oracle database

and deployed as a combination of both C/S and web applications.

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

The Uniface SolutionUniface and its technology independence, MnSCU was

a dependable solution that let MnSCU confidently move to new technologies, while still integrating with

theirlegacy systems.

The ability to integrate Uniface with COBOL and Java, with external technology and through the different

application layers.

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

The Results with UnifaceMnSCU’s Uniface deployed application is made up of

over 2,000 components, accessing 1,400 tables ranging from a few rows to millions of rows.

On average there are about 1,500 concurrent users accessing the Uniface client/server business

application during business hours with hundreds of transactions per minute.

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

The Results with UnifaceImproved user experience no matter if staff members are working at one of the campus locations, or from

home, their experience is the same and performance has not been an issue with Uniface.

MnSCU remains current and keeps their mission-critical

applications running reliably for staff and students.

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

The Results with UnifaceMoved key pieces of functionality to the web, making

them easier to use and more accessible for the application end users.

Integrated with various technologies that their ITinfrastructure is composed of, including COBOL, Java

and OpenVMS.

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

Our biggest concern was, of course, if everything would still work once we migratedto Oracle, and it did. We let Uniface connect to the database and do all the effort, that worked out really well for us.”

Dave Willford, Application Development Manager, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

The Future with UnifaceFor MnSCU, the expectation is set as they plan on moving more functionality to the web. Thanks to

Uniface every technology step in between has worked, with little effort

Today MnSCU has a truly modernized Uniface application that will continue to grow and provide

value in the years to come.

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