Social Security will pay IBM 230 million zł for software licenses – Business portal wnp.pl

Order related to grant a license with support for system-utility software IBM for a period of 36 months. ZUS reserved the option to convert and extend the pool of software.

The second element is the control code support services GDPS (ang. Geographically Dispersed Parallel SysplexTM), also for 36 months, providing continuous access to data and production systems z / OS, DB2 and IBM System z (Mainframe) with a guaranteed availability of the operating system z / OS and DB2 database. List of software supported by IBM has 64 entries.

According to the Social Security “IBM Poland Sp. Z oo, according to a statement dated 12.11.2014 r., Is the only entity that on Polish territory can offer and provide a system solution in this contract “.

The company emphasizes that the end of December expired contract under which the company benefited from IBM tools and reports that “the expiry of the license for the software system-Tool for Social Insurance is necessary to purchase a license for a period of 36 months. In the event of failure of the above purchase from 1 January 2015. facility will not have the licenses necessary to provide mainframe processing platform. “