Ministero dell’struzione Università e Ricerca, also known as MIUR, is the Italian Ministry of Education. They are charged with managing the million plus  teaching staff of all public institutions in Italy.

In the early 2000s, a legislative change led to a reorganization and decentralization of MIUR opreations.

Smartly, MIUR IT seized upon that development to put a plan in place to move their processing operations from their mainframe (unmaned, despite my asking), and move to a more agile, and versatile platform.

MIUR was suffering the following issues: high costs, inflexibility, poor manageability, and a long deployment schedule.

HP Business Services to create a new platform using Oracle Applications, Microfocus Cobol Oracle, and J2EE Oracle to move everything off the mainframe, replacing, re-hosting, re-factoring, re-architecting, and rewriting software and business processes along the way.

What MIUR has been able to do is better support business processes. Furthermore, the cost savings have been impressive. For an €11,000.00 project, there was a €6.8 million saving in 2008 alone, and the estimated savings for 2009 is €8.2 million.

In other words, in less than 18 months, MIUR has been able to exceed a 100% cost recovery, a situation that would neve have been possible without HP.

Suffice it to say, they (the MIUR) are pleased!

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