Computer Associates International, Inc (CA) today announced that Furnas Centrais El'etricas S.A., which supplies 66% of Brazil`s electrical energy, is using CA`s Advantage EDBC to enable access of its legacy data by Web and client/server applications.
This integration is substantially enhancing critical business operations, while enabling Furnas to fully leverage its mainframe investments.
More than 95% of Furnas` data resides on the company`s OS/390 mainframe. The Brazilian Electric Utility company uses Advantage CA-Datacom as its mainframe database platform and Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database as its relational database platform on Sun Solaris. Advantage CA-Datacom manages nearly 3 500 tables and 90 databases, while Advantage Ingres currently runs 600 tables and 40 databases. These databases support the company`s most critical business systems - including the Integrated Maintenance Support System, which manages energy production and distribution, and the Dam Security System, which tracks seismic activity at Brazil`s hydroelectric facilities.
Furnas implemented Advantage EDBC because of its superb integration with the company`s existing CA database technologies, its intuitive management tools, and its outstanding performance across the network.
"Advantage EDBC is a highly strategic solution for Furnas, since so much of our most valuable data resides on our mainframe," said Marcus Vinicius Albuquerque, database administrator, Furnas. "With Advantage EDBC, we can now use flexible, cost-efficient technologies such as Visual Basic, Lotus Notes/Domino, and the Web to give our end users immediate, graphical access to the information they need."
Furnas` IT environment encompasses 48 business units connected to four major data centres via a complex IP network. Advantage EDBC allows systems throughout this environment to be effectively synchronised, while also helping to ensure that end users experience fast response times regardless of their location. Advantage EDBC also helps ensure the integrity of all legacy data being delivered to end-users and Furnas` other distributed applications.
"Companies with large investments in mainframe systems continue to look for ways to leverage those investments as they take advantage of distributed and web-based information technologies," said Vincenzo Dragone, senior vice president and general manager, CA Latin America. "With CA`s Advantage EDBC, Furnas has been able to accomplish this objective without having to re-code legacy applications or invest an inordinate amount of development resources in `one-off` application integration projects."
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Furnas Centrais El'etricas S.A. is the leader in the electric energy sector in Brazil, responsible for supplying 66% of all the energy consumed in the country. Furnas was created in 1957 and is indirectly administered by the Federal Government, linked to the Ministry of Mines and Energy and controlled by Eletrobr'as. The company currently operates ten hydroelectric plants and two thermoelectric plants, including the largest plant in Latin America (Santa Cruz, with 600MW), and a total of 42 substations and 18 000km of transmission lines.
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