BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX) announced that it was selected by Israel Local Authorities data processing center (LADPC) to perform a major migration of its accounts receivable collection, finance, and human resource/payroll applications. The conversion project is based on Bluephoenix's proprietary technology.
The $2.25 million migration project is part of LADPC's $6.7 million service bureau upgrade. The migration from mainframe and ADABAS/Natural environment to a modern Java/Unix environment will allow LADPC to benefit from the advantages of relational databases, reduce maintenance costs associated with the mainframe, and provide a Web-based graphic user interface to customers.
BluePhoenix will migrate two applications within 12 months and will complete the whole project within a year and half.
LADPC decided to perform this migration project as part of their larger plan to standardize their in-house IT architecture, some of which has been in use for nearly three decades. This is a step towards their mission to provide improved services to their customers that mainly consist of the local and regional municipalities in Israel.
Israel Local Authorities Data Processing Center was established in 1968 by the Ministry of Interior and the Union of Local Authorities. It operates as a public company, with the local authorities owning 60% and the government of Israel owning 40% of the founding shares.
The LADPC serves over 5,000 users connected by an 150-node network. They provide real time service information from four central offices - located in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Beersheba and Haifa. LADPC provides all 263 of Israel's municipal authorities with a range of services including: human resources and salary services, finance services, billing services as well as tools for population management, online access to government ministries and banks, and joint operations with municipal staff.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on Tuesday, January 17, 2006