Wyndham Hotel Group, one of the world's largest integrated hotel franchise and management companies has gone live on a compatibility server to migrate its 3,000 user, tier one call center application to the Oracle database.
A press note said that Wyndham will realize savings on software and hardware by utilizing the existing Oracle databases and Sun servers. Its commercial production application went live on ANT s compatibility server (ACS).
Pete Gibson, senior vice president and chief technology officer for Wyndham Hotel Group said, The team is dedicated to our success, and through the process we have found a way to effortlessly realize recurring cost savings through database consolidation.
There was no disruption to our end users and since the application interface used by our call center personnel will not be altered, there is no need to train our personnel on a new application system.
Joseph Kozak, chairman and CEO of ANT Software said, Until now it has been a challenge to migrate applications. Looking ahead, we plan to broaden ACS to allow migration from the other major databases to the Oracle database. We are also working on adding other migrations that one day will allow companies to move between databases.
ACS is a middleware solution that allows application code -- queries, stored procedures, and functions -- from legacy databases to run natively and transparently against the new target database with minimal to no application rewriting and recompiling. The application operates as if it were still communicating with the original database, while the new Oracle database operates as if it were communicating with a native application, according to the press note.
