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20-08-2010
Associated Food Stores Migrates with Asysco
Salt Lake City, Utah - July 2010
Associated Food Stores, Inc. has selected Asysco to automatically migrate its 25 mission-critical applications, currently running on A-Series Unisys mainframes, to the Microsoft Windows Server platform using Asysco’s Automated Migration Technology–Visual Studio (AMT-VS) software suite.
Asysco will be employing its signature, mainframe migration project management methodology to guide Associated Food Stores through the 8 month project that will include the conversion, testing and production delivery of more than one million lines of legacy COBOL, ALGOL and WFLs to non-proprietary, open source, ASP.NET/VB.Net and will transfer the DMSII databases to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (X64) relational database management system.
About Associated Food Stores
Associated Food Stores, Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a cooperatively owned wholesale distributor to almost 600 independently owned supermarkets in an eight state region.
Since its organization in 1940, Associated Food Stores has not only delivered groceries to independent grocers, but has also helped them battle national chains and razor-thin profits. With the assistance of Associated, most of these independent retailers have become exceptional supermarkets turning in respectable profits.
Today, Associated Food Stores champions the cause of independent supermarket owners and is the only independent wholesale distributor headquartered in the Intermountain West, employing over 1,400 people and shipping over 750 truckloads of groceries each week.
To learn more about Associated Food Stores, Inc. please visit www.afstores.com