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• A large public utility required a data mart, or virtual warehouse, populated with data from their customer master file
• The master file was their primary legacy system, with information on all of their accounts. The file was so massive that, if flattened, its size would be in the terabytes
• Various ETL vendors submitted proposals, but each of their solutions involved a similarly complex PL/1 program.  
• Arbutus Analyzer solved the utility's problem because it could directly read the complex master file, at a fraction of the cost of the others.

Read the Integrate case study here


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• Executives and employees at a major housing authority require regular access to mainframe data from Windows computers
• Mainframe data reports must be formatted, scrubbed and customized according to department
• The existing mainframe data access process was time-consuming, insufficient and frustrating
• Overall goals: Remove IT from the process, improve data quality, and automate processes to reduce manual intervention

Read the Connect case study here


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• A large multinational with extensive mergers and acquisitions activity required a tool to assist with data migration projects 
• Their inventory management system was in Oracle on a UNIX platform, while the source systems of the acquired companies were on IBM mainframes or other platforms
• After Arbutus Migrate and Arbutus Windows Server were implemented, data migration projects were completed faster and easier than ever, and at a fraction of the cost 
• During the all-important data conversion process prior to migration, data quality testing was more comprehensive and done earlier than in the past, resulting in better data quality, with fewer delays later on

Read the Mainframe Data Migration case study here


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Arbutus Technology at Work - as a complement to the case studies, here are a variety of scenarios in which Arbutus technology is used.