As we approach the close of the 21st century, many companies are rushing to implement applications that will support their competitive goals while avoiding business disruption that could occur on January 1, 2000.
Time is of the essence, yet there is no room to compromise on quality.
The company's mission is to be the local leader in the coordination and financing of health-related benefits and to be a name that is synonymous with quality health care and quality service in Rhode Island. EAServer and PowerBuilder Deliver Rapid Development Capabilities, Scalability, and Tight Integration Blue Ribbon II, named after its predecessor, is a three-tiered Intranet application that uses business logic sitting in the middle tier on EAServer and distributed PowerBuilder components. The system is deployed on Windows NT Server with most of the data for the application residing on an IBM mainframe. Additionally, there would be significant costs in money and time because these applications required extensive integration to the company's legacy applications. And there was no time to spare.