Unicon's pure solution enabled Alaska National to run its converted applications in a native Open Systems environment. Premium Choice Alaska National went live with their new system in May 1998. Extensive testing and practice runs meant the migration was practically transparent to the users. He applauds Unicon and Acucorp's patience and support, as well as their technical expertise. The two companies have helped us through all our issues and have seen the project through to successful completion.
Users appreciate the quicker response time for on-line activity.
A report that would have taken an hour or more to run, now takes only minutes. Programmers have also found that program compilation is nearly instantaneous. All programs can be compiled in just 15 minutes, compared to compiling overnight on the Wang. We are running as a UNIX terminal emulation, and, while we don't expect to go with a full GUI, we can use pop-up window displays.