National Retail Giant Supports Growing Store Network

A retail success story opening new stores weekly can put a strain on existing infrastructure, and if your ERP solution has you locked in at a particular IBM i OS, your options might initially seem limited.

Working with Covenco, our solution architects utilized IBM POWER technology to provide two new systems while meeting the business demands of a change freeze during an upcoming peak season, and literally no downtime due to 24-hour warehouse operations.

Covenco designed a ‘dual target’ solution, setting up the new systems as a MIMIX target and replica from the existing live box. All systems were brought in sync and the upgrades were delivered with the shortest of outages, just to swap the communications.