Telecom Company Modernises Oracle Forms to J2EE - 1,200 Users Benchmarked
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Leading Telecom Network Infrastructure Company
- A long-established industry leader in carrier-grade telecommunications network infrastructure was operating its AccessCare Operating Support System on a legacy Oracle Forms 6i thick-client architecture backed by Oracle 8i. The application had been in production for 6 years and was increasingly difficult to maintain. Upgrades required simultaneous changes across all client machines, application business rules were fragmented across stored procedures and distributed library files, and the client-server architecture could not support the modern, web-based delivery model the business required. The client needed a full migration to J2EE without disrupting existing users.
- Deployed Oracle Forms migration tools and services to re-engineer the AccessCare application into a modern, multi-tier, thin-client J2EE platform using the Kumaran Migration Framework with Jakarta Struts MVC, EJB 2.0, and JFC Swings
- Delivered an exact one-to-one migration - preserving all GUI, navigation, validation features, and existing functionality
- Developed intelligent validation, query tuning, and complete utilities with reusable intelligent business components; framework benchmarked to support 1,200 simultaneous users
- Continuous offshore maintenance support provided from December 2005 with well-defined SLAs and dedicated team
- Exact one-to-one migration - all existing functionality preserved with no user retraining required
- Benchmarked to support 1,200 simultaneous users on Oracle 10G Application Server
- Platform-independent deployment - runs on any JVM-enabled browser across any OS
- Multi-lingual GUI enabled, supporting global users in their own language
- Continuous offshore maintenance support with well-defined SLAs and dedicated team
From legacy Oracle Forms to modern J2EE - zero user retraining required
A leading telecom network infrastructure company - serving 9 out of 10 North American Fortune 500 companies and over 50 million enterprise users worldwide - partnered with Kumaran to modernise its AccessCare Operating Support System from legacy Oracle Forms to a full J2EE platform. Kumaran delivered an exact one-to-one migration with no functional regression, a benchmark-validated framework supporting 1,200 simultaneous users, and a platform-independent, browser-accessible product that freed the client from vendor dependency. The engagement evolved into a long-term maintenance partnership, with Kumaran providing continuous offshore support, new feature development, and production patch management from December 2005 onwards.
The Background
The client's AccessCare application - covering fault diagnostics, workforce management, voice, high-speed data, and special services management - had been built on Oracle Forms 6i with a client-server architecture using Oracle 8i. After six years in production, the platform had become expensive to maintain and impossible to deploy centrally. Every upgrade required simultaneous updates across all end-user machines, and the thick-client architecture blocked the business from moving to a web-based, scalable model. One of the client's own customers had specifically requested a J2EE migration - making the transformation both a technical necessity and a commercial opportunity.
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