This Old Mainframe

Offloading Mainframe Applications to Hadoop

Legacy mainframe systems used by organizations are scalable, secure, available and reliable machines capable of processing large workloads. However, they incur huge hardware, software and processing costs. Moreover, with the dearth of mainframe technicians in the current workforce, maintenance itself has become a challenge. Hence, many organizations feel the need to migrate a portion of or the ...

Is this NE tagger getting old?

This paper focuses on the influence of changing the text time frame on the performance of a named entity tagger. We followed a twofold approach to investigate this subject: on the one hand, we analyzed a corpus that spans 8 years, and, on the other hand, we assessed the performance of a name tagger trained and tested on that corpus. We created 8 samples from the corpus, each drawn from the arti...

A Crabbit Old Woman Wrote This

Software Migration einer Mainframe-Anwendung - Ein Praxisbericht

Mit über zwei Millionen fakturierter und gedruckter Rechnungen täglich und rund 42 Millionen geführter Debitorenkonten gehört ActiveBilling als Tochtergesellschaft der Deutschen Telekom AG rund um Billing und Collection zu den Marktführern in Europa. Bei der hier vorgestellten Anwendung handelt es sich um ein Auftragslenkungssystem zur maschinellen Übernahme bzw. Weitergabe rechnungsrelevanter ...

Mainframe Services from Gigabit-Networked Workstations