Newport News

Challenge
Newport News wanted to replace 20-year-old legacy mainframe-based applications. Its existing suite included 4 mainframe and 58 other application systems (LAN and packages). The mainframe systems were using the COBOL XE utility and had not been enhanced since prior to Y2K.

Solution
TMG was engaged to create a business case. TMG conducted an industry perspective, gathered business, technical, and system information through interviews, surveys and walkthroughs. TMG also conducted executive and senior manager vision and strategy workshops, introduced alternatives in a working session and conducted an extensive workshop to review and modify the TMG templates to reflect Newport News’ specific requirements. Five alternatives were identified, evaluated and results presented to the Newport News leadership team.

Result
TMG evaluated their numerous systems and organized them into 4 groups: replace immediately, upgrade/replace soon, replace long term, and enhance now through better support. CIS and Work Management were deemed to be replaced immediately. TMG developed a design blueprint, developed and issued an RFP in June of 2004.