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News Corner : Latest News
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Tori Cluster at Franco Belge Electricité
March 2005 - Franco Belge Electricité, subsidiary of Sonepar France, is the major electrical wholesaler on the Ile-de-France area, with its 35 branches network.
 The company was created in 1919 by a Frenchman and a Belgian, it entered the Sonepar group in 1969 and has today over 500 professionals, 1200 distributors, and more than 10000 clients.
The VTD/8 Tori Cluster with 800 VTD/Amaril sessions replaced their two Optimo boards. Franco Belge also ordered two Customer Engineering Requests for VTD/Amaril.
Samsonite-Europe selects VTD/8 Tori
March 2005 - Samsonite, world leader in providing bags, suitcases, kids luggage, computer cases and many more, has migrated their two VTD/8 Optimo boards to a VTD/8 Tori Cluster.
The European head office, located in Oudenaarde (Belgium), connects all European Samsonite subsidiaries - from Norway to Greece - using 500 VTD/Amaril sessions.
RSZPPO/ONSSAPL chooses VTD/8 Tori Cluster
January 2005 - The Office National de Sécurité Sociale des Administrations Provinciales et Locales (=Rijksdienst voor Sociale Zekerheid van de Provinciale en Plaatselijke Overheidsdiensten) replaces their two VTD/8 Centro boards by a Tori Cluster on a VMWare  platform.
Almost 200 VTD/Amaril sessions now connect to the GCOS host using SSL encryption.
This company, located in the heart of Brussels, collects the social security contributions of local and provincial authorities and that of other administrations in Belgium.
VTD/8 Tori running on VMWare at Rainbow ICT Services
January 2005 - As an Economic Interest Grouping, Rainbow provides IT services to a number of large insurance companies, altogether for some 3000 users.
The company, operating from the centre of Brussels, was established in 2001 by the insurance groups P&V and the Dexia daughter company DVV. In June 2003, Swiss Life and Zelia also joined the organisation.
The Tori Single Server, installed on a Windows 2003 VMWare GSX server, succesfully replaced the VTD/8 Optimo board.
Security hotfixes for Windows NT4 no longer supported by Microsoft
January 2005 - After five years of service, the Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 operating system is being retired. Microsoft first announced the retirement of Windows NT4 in September 2001.
 From January 2005, support is no longer available by Microsoft . This includes security and non-security hotfixes ! Microsoft advises all NT4 users to upgrade to the Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server.
Therefore, Micro-Matic Research strongly advises all our Optimo and Centro clients to migrate to VTD/8 Tori.
Health insurance with 1500 sessions on VTD/8 Tori Cluster !
November 2004 - RAM Gamex, a major french insurance company, migrated their two Optimo boards and ordered 600 new VTD/8 sessions, now running 1500 sessions over a Tori Cluster.
The company has 1500 employees divided over 80 offices nationwide, and more than 1,500,000 insured individuals !
French company Axygest selects Tori
November 2004 - Axygest, the developer of taxi fleet management software, has chosen to enhance their communication using a Tori Single Server.
The company was founded in 1985, and is located in the heart of Paris.
Warships builder DCN Propulsion chooses VTD/8 Tori
November 2004 - DCN Propulsion has migrated their 100 sessions on the Optimo boards to a Tori Single Server.
 This unit is based at Nantes-Indret and has a staff of around 1000. DCN Propulsion develops, builds and integrates complete propulsion systems for submarines and surface combatants. The Propulsion business unit is also responsible for the assembly and testing, in cooperation with Rolls-Royce, of WR-45 gas turbine/alternator sets for Royal Navy T45 frigates.
Successful migration to VTD/8 Tori at Hoffmeister Leuchten
September 2004 - Hoffmeister Leuchten GmbH replaces their VTD/8 Optimo board by a VTD/8 Tori Server with 90 sessions on a Windows 2003 server, thereby bypassing the Datanet.
Being one of Europe´s leading manufacturers of contemporary-design indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures, Hoffmeister´s outstanding quality of luminaires and management are backed by an ISO 9001 certification. Founded nearly 100 years ago, and today with affiliates in Austria and Sweden, Hoffmeister Leuchten is located in the German city of Lüdenscheid, near Düsseldorf.
240 sessions Tori Cluster introduced at Onderlinge Levensverzekeringen
September 2004 - The Onderlinge Levensverzekeringmaatschappij ´s-Gravenhage is an independent, solid and financially very powerful company with hundreds of thousands of life insurance policies, as well as home, travel and car insurance policies.
This Dutch company, located in The Hague and founded in 1895, cooperates with more than 1000 professional agents nationwide.
Their two VTD/8 Optimo boards each carrying a 120 sessions license are replaced with a VTD/8 Tori Cluster, supported by a Silver Maintenance Contract.
La Luxembourgeoise chooses Tori and Amaril to automate procedures
April 2004 - La Luxembourgeoise, founded in the early 1920´s and one of the largest insurance companies in Luxembourg, decided to update their Optimo board to a VTD/8 Tori Server, and to upgrade all 200 VTD/Win sessions to VTD/Amaril.
A special function in Amaril allows them to automatically launch external Oracle forms, based on the content of the received host data. Furthermore, the scripting tool in Amaril lets them automatically create text files once a specific keyword has been detected on the host screen.
Offering a complete range of life insurance products and special services, a team of more than 300 employees and a dense network of 60 local agencies constantly work hard to improve the customer satisfaction. And they succeed !
Steria Group selects VTD/8 Tori in outsourcing for Centea Banking
June 2004 -  Centea, member of the KBC Banking Group, has migrated their Optimo boards to VTD/8 Tori Cluster.
All 333 Amaril sessions in the Centea offices in Antwerp now connect at high-speed to the Tori servers in the Steria building at Louvain-la-Neuve using Load Balancing between the servers.
The installation, migration and configuration of the VTD/8 Tori software on both Windows XP computers took less than one hour ! Steria signed for a Gold Maintenance Contract.
With more than 8000 employees and a revenue of 1 billion euro, Steria is one of the Top 10 European IT services companies. Steria Belgium/Luxembourg has an average staff of 350 people with strong experience in systems integration, managed services and consulting in different sectors.
VTD/8 Tori Cluster delivering high availability in Switzerland
March 2004 -  Pax Versicherungen, a life insurance company located in Bazel and founded in 1876, has over 500 employees and nearly 160.000 clients.
It has chosen to migrate their 225 Amaril sessions from Optimo to Tori, and has signed a Silver Maintenance Contract.
Discover the VTD/8 Tori Communication Server !
March 2004 -  VTD/8 Tori is the newest generation of VTD/8 Gateway, offering full security and availability.
MMR decided for development of the successor of its famous VTD/8 Optimo Gateway. Availability is planned for 1st quarter 2004.
Contact us for more information on this new technology, and discover on-site the endless list of advantages, like its load-balancing technique, the clustering mechanism, SSL authentication, and many more.
The Maintenance Contracts Club welcomes new members
September 2004 - Samsonite (Bags and suitcases - Belgium), Onderlinge (Insurances - Netherlands), Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Egrève (Health - France), Steria (Bank and Insurances - Belgium), Institut Français du Pétrole (Education - France), Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (Government - France), Ospedale San Martino (Health - Italy), Markant (Distribution - Germany)
NRB with VTD/8 V8 to GNSP
August 2003 - Network Research Belgium (NRB), the company in charge of the IT-Management of the `Région Wallonne`, upgraded its VTD/8 Optimo´s to V8 for connection to GNSP, the network processor for the GCOS 8 communications.
The VTD/8 Network Management allows network configuration changes to be done on-line without interrupting the GCOS communication and thus without disconnecting its user group.
Thanks to the full session management, VTD/8 Optimo offers ease of deployment and a highly cost-effective exploitation which results in a fast and high Return On Investment !
VTD/8 Centro Gateway: end of commercialisation
August 2003 - As from July 1st 2003, commercialisation of VTD/8 Centro boards is stopped.
Support, Maintenance and Standard Exchange for defective boards remain available through your usual contacts.
MMR renforce la présence d’Adular en France
May 2003 -  MMR étend son réseaux de partenariats en France pour l’activité Web-to-Host. Un accord de distribution VTD/Adular a été passé avec SCS-PTC France, le 7 mai 2003.
SCS-PTC France, ayant une forte présence dans le monde Bull GCOS8, est spécialisée dans la distribution de progiciels Web-to-host et Web publishing, et des solutions d’intégration des mainframes Bull, Unix avec Intranet / Internet.
Koblix, qui offre en France l’ensemble des produits VTD/8, VTD/Amaril et VTD/Adular et les services autour de ces produits, étend son offre à la réalisation de portails d’entreprises, incluant l’accès aux applications existantes.
MMR, SCS-PTC France et Koblix, s’unissent pour aider les entreprises à tirer les pleins profits de l’intégration de la technologie GCOS/IBM et Systèmes Ouverts dans leurs projets Intranet/internet avec l’offre VTD/Adular.
19ème Assemblée Générale du Cube
May 2003 -  Our distributors in France, Koblix and SCS-PTC France , welcome you at the Hotel Ambassadeur for the 19th Assemblée Générale du CUBE, which will take place at Juan-Les-Pins, on May 20 and 21, 2003.
VTD/8 and GNSP: great success !
September 2002 - VTD/8 is ready for GCOS8 Network Server Processor. VTD/8 software version V8 has intensively been tested by our engineers in Bull´s R&D Center (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France) on September 17th 2002.
Adular and Amaril successfully tested on DIANE
September 2002 - MMR´s Adular and Amaril have been intensively tested on Bull´s new DPS7000 XTA, also known as DIANE, in Bull´s R&D Center (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France). The tests performed in TNVIP and RFC1006 for both Adular and Amaril showed outstanding stability and high performance.
SSL in VTD/Amaril
April 2002 - From version 8 onwards, VTD/Amaril supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to secure communications through encryption. SSL encryption can be used for all protocols on TCP/IP: VGP over Winsock, Telnet, TNVIP and SID/RFC1006.
RFC1006 in VTD/8 and VTD/Amaril
February 2002 - With version V8.00 of both VTD/Amaril and VTD/8, the RFC1006 protocol is implemented in all products.
Migration to the new GCOS system DIANE
January 2002 - Early adapters EDF (Electricité de France) and CG 57 (Conseil Général de la Moselle, France) report a seamless migration to the IT chain VTD/8 - DIANE.
Rentenanstalt integrates its Legacy IT into the Web with Adular
January 2002 -  Rentenanstalt (Germany) is one of the leading International Insurance companies on the German market. The company is part of the SWISSLIFE Group . Based in Munich, where about 700 employees are working in the back-office, Rentenanstalt created during the years a Service-network of 44 affiliates and up to 12.000 agents and partners. Among annuity- and life insurance, the SWISSLIFE group also offers a variety of insurances and financial services for private persons as well as for companies.
By initiating the project "Neue Vertriebswege", Rentenanstalt makes the first step into the new economie of E-business. The project is to build a web-based information system in order to serve their partners and agents with information residing on the legacy IT systems. The goal was not only to have an efficient, short-time-to-market and cost-friendly solution, but also an integrative, comprehensive, scalable and open solution.
Therefore, Rentenanstalt decided for Adular, the intelligent middleware product of Micro-Matic Research, because of its distinctive advantages :
- Excellent integration of UNIX systems & GCOS8
- Shortest time-to-market through Modeler
- Single view on the business information
- Clearly defined interface to Web application
- Proven track of MMR’s expertise
Lindab implements the powerful VTD/Amaril emulator
January 2002 -  Lindab , based in Bastad (Sweden), develops and manufactures sheet-metal products for the environmental and ventilation market. The company also has a complete profile program for the building industry.
Lindab integrated their first VTD/8 Standard gateways with VTDWIN emulators in 1995. Quickly afterwards, the VTD/8 Centro was introduced as well. Lindab now choses for the logical next step: migration to Amaril.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
January 2002 - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (French National Library) decides to update its VTD platform to the latest products :
- VTD/8 Centro is replaced by VTD/8 Optimo
- the 32-bit Amaril emulator replaces the "good old" VTDWIN
- the Virga back-up solution is implement on the VTD/8 Optimo as Virga OnBoard.
Iafil implements Adular for integration of AS400 platform into the WEB
January 2002 -  Iafil in Italy has been producing yarns such as silk, cotton and wool for fine quality knitwear since 1890, successfully applying the most advanced technical know-how whilst retaining the fibre´s natural elements throughout the production process. These yarns are distributed all over the world. You can read more about this company on www.iafil.com .
To integrate Web technology in its business, Iafil ordered MMR´s Adular for developing an information system for the order processing (consultation of available stocks, progress of orders) for its agents and distributors. This web-application integrates their AS400 platform and re-uses their existing applications for order processing. The next phase in this project will be on line ordering for their agents and distributors.
Need more information on Adular ? Please feel free to contact us.
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