Alliance Between Celona and Logica

Celon Technologies Ltd. announced a new alliance with Logica plc, an IT and business services company.

The alliance combines the Celona Evolve real-time application data migration software platform with Logica’s recognised industry expertise, deep understanding of client’s business and IT environments, and proven ability to deploy complex programmes for major organisations. The combined expertise will ensure effective execution of application data migration projects for clients across all industries and enable companies to significantly reduce business risk associated with their application data migration projects.

Data migration has been a long standing problem area for enterprises spanning Telecoms, Financial Services, Utilities, Manufacturing and Public Sector, with over 60% of migrations overrunning in time and cost, many programs of which result in failure across business sectors. The rise of business process-centric applications such as CRM and ERP and new application architectures has increased the complexity and issues of data migration. Therefore the need for both competence in the IT and business environments of the client, and specialist software tools for application data migration that can be successfully utilised at a business control level to de-risk and remove enterprise migration costs, has never been so high.

Aging tools and methods which have their roots in data warehousing are not suited to organisation critical business application migration. This has created a clear requirement for new generation software and professional services data migration offerings that can provide the technical and business level enablement to meet today’s needs for agility in the changing enterprise landscape.

The partnership follows successful cooperation on several projects in the telecom and financial services sectors.

Charles Andrews, CEO of Celona, commented: "Data migration can no longer been seen as just an IT issue. Rising enterprise data volumes, greater complexity of business applications and an increasing trend in IT/Business transformation programmes, driven by Mergers & Acquisitions, divestment and the requirement for increased business agility, makes data migration a board level business issue. We are truly excited by the benefits that this partnership with Logica will bring to clients."

Craig Boundy, Chief Executive, Global Operations, Logica, said: "Understandably businesses want to be in control of their operations. Putting the Board back in the driving seat when it comes to the migration process, rather than having it determined by IT needs, allows this to happen. Logica’s alliance with Celona will bring significant benefits to clients, allowing them to dramatically reduce business risks and project timeframes."