| GEMA (society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) |
Technology serving art:
By switching from a mainframe to Solaris and migrating from Adabas C to Oracle, GEMA is saving millions of euros in operating costs. |
The Situation:
As a licensed collecting society, GEMA (society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) represents the usage rights of over 60,000 composers, songwriters and music publishers.
GEMA employs roughly 1,100 people at ten different locations throughout Germany and earned
approximately 870 million euros for its members in 2006.
The utilization of comprehensive IT support and state-of-the-art technology is a necessary prerequisite for the effi cient, cost effective and modern management of usage rights in both a national and international context. GEMA has made it a goal to replace its mainframe (BS2000) with the more inexpensive Solaris platform, and migrate its applications from Adabas C to Oracle.
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The Solution:
As a basic condition for migration, it was decided that GEMA is to maintain its accustomed realm
of applications. This meant that no changes were to be made in the applications themselves when migrating. This is only possible by using an intelligent database gateway that optimally supports the migration of the Natural apps. On December 31, 2005, one era ended and a new one was heralded in: the mainframe (BS2000) with Adabas and Natural was punctually shut down without any problems, and production began on Natural applications on a Solaris machine with an Oracle database.
Nothing changed for the users, but a lot did for the business: with the new database and platform, GEMA can cut its operating expenses today by a few million euros.
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The Advantages:
 BS2000 mainframe shut down as of 1/1/2006
Savings of operating expenses in the seven-figure range
Adabas C replaced by Oracle
Technical risks of migration avoided through use of SmartDCI® database bridge
Uniform architecture environment and consolidated infrastructure established
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The Customer:
“The project gave us exactly what we had expected: the systems are running stably, we’re
saving millions of euros, we can fall back on our employees’ know-how just as we always
have, and we’ve also got the whole data aspect more under control. Even though it was
a major project that wasn’t particularly easy, we’d do it again anytime.”
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| Mr. Konrad Pösl, GEMA IT-Director |
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GEMA (society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights)
www.gema.de |
Branch of trade:
Collecting society in the area of music
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Employees:
Over 1,100 people at ten locations in Germany |
| Turnover (2006): approx. 870 million euros |
 Long Version! |
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