30-03-2012 IBA Group at 1st SAP Forum in Belarus On March 21, a conference entitled The 1st SAP forum. Corporate Governance and Boosting Investment Appeal of Companies took place in Minsk, Belarus. IBA Group participated in the event as its exclusive partner. Representatives of four IBA Group companies, namely IBA Minsk, IBA Gomel, NIIEVMService, and IBA Training Center participated in the forum.
01-02-2012 IBA Group Selected Finalist of European Software Excellence Awards 2012IT Europa, a leading European IT publisher and market intelligence organization, announced the finalists of the European Software Excellence Awards 2012, the pan-European awards event for ISV (Independent Software Vendors) and Software Developer channels. This year, the contest attracted entries from 18 countries. A total of 36 companies from 14 European countries have made the finals.
28-11-2011 ICFM Recognizes IBA as Best Employer On November 17, IBA received an award of the Institute of Certified Financial Managers (ICFM) in the category The Best Employer of the Year. The awarding ceremony was organized within an annual ICFM conference that was held from November 17 to November 18, 2011 in London.
According to Software Productivity Consortium, "In the IT world, migration is the movement of an application system to a new environment motivated by a need to serve the business of the enterprise more effectively. Migration helps protect the current investment in data and functionality critical to the business and establishes a path for growth. Migration establishes a basis for effectively harnessing modern IT to satisfy current and future needs. This allows for the enterprise to better position itself within a constantly changing business and technological environment. An enterprise can accomplish the migration in one or more steps. The size and number of steps depend on the amount of change the enterprise's systems must undergo and the need to rest and recover along the way." Porting a large scale software application demands strong automation to meet economic and timeframe objectives.
As a sample of migration the IBA Gomel presents CA-Easytrieve to COBOL migration service based on homegrown mass-conversion tool
Typical migration project assumptions
Customer provides just source codes but not the access to target platform
1. Customer's contact person 2. Contractor's contact person 3. Contractor's PM 4. Contractor's teamlead
Typical procedure of customer-contractor interaction on the migration project
Customer
Time step(+delay, hours)
Contractor
Initial stage
Sends source codes of CA-Easytrieve (CA-ET) modules
Receives source codes of CA-Easytrieve modules
Translates CA-Easytrieve modules to COBOL modules
for each module
START
Sends COBOL source codes, corresponding to CA-Easytrieve modules
Receives COBOL source codes
START+1
Compiles COBOL source codes with own environment
Case 1: Compilation errors
Sends compiler's listings to contractor for validation of compiler's options
START+(1..3)
Receives compiler's listing, updates COBOL source codes, sends codes to customer, returns to START
Case 2: No compilation errors, test(s) disagree to sample (CA-Easytrieve)output
Runs tests, compares tests (COBOL) output to sample (CA-Easytrieve output) Sends results of test runs (outputs of COBOL-II and outputs of corresponding CA-ET modules) to contractor
START+(1..3)
Receives results of tests runs, updates COBOL modules, sends codes to customer, returns to START
Case 3: No compilation errors, test(s) agree to sample (CA-Easytrieve) output
Accepts COBOL module, sends to contractor a list of accepted CA-ET and COBOL modules
IBA Gomel places special emphasis on maintaining close relations with local universities. Our company signed a cooperation agreement with the Gomel State University named after Francisk Skorina. Students from high schools come to IBA Gomel to take training courses.
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