Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is the fifth largest system of public colleges and universities in America. Consisting of 31 institutions with 54 campuses across the state that serves more than 410,000 students each year. Learn how they modernized a large customized ERP solution with Uniface.

1. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
Strategy to modernize large customized
ERP solution with Uniface has paid off for
Minnesota State Colleges & Universities.

2. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is the fifth largest
system of public colleges and universities
in America.
It consists of 31 institutions with 54 campuses across the state
and serves more 410,000 students each year.

3. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
The Uniface Challenge
Modernizing their mission-critical ERP system built in the early
1990’s to improve user experience (UX) and to move towards
being a web-enabled organization.
MnSCU to maintain legacy platforms while moving to new
technology using Uniface’s powerful
integration capabilities.

4. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
Building a web version was quite
straightforward with Uniface. We didn’t
have to re-write the business logic, and
it ended up being a pretty quick-win for
us to get the application deployed.”
Dave Willford,
Application Development Manager,
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

5. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
The Uniface Solution
Uniface aided seamless application integration with
MnSCU IT technology infrastructure.
Uniface applications running on an OpenVMS operating
system, integrated with an Oracle database and deployed as a
combination of both C/S and
web applications.

6. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
The Uniface Solution
Uniface and its technology independence, MnSCU was a
dependable solution that let MnSCU confidently move to new
technologies, while still integrating with their
legacy systems.
The ability to integrate Uniface with COBOL and Java, with
external technology and through the different application
layers.

7. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
The Results with Uniface
MnSCU’s Uniface deployed application is made up of over
2,000 components, accessing 1,400 tables ranging from a few
rows to millions of rows.
On average there are about 1,500 concurrent users accessing
the Uniface client/server business application during business
hours with hundreds of transactions per minute.

8. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
The Results with Uniface
Improved user experience no matter if staff members are
working at one of the campus locations, or from home, their
experience is the same and performance has not been an
issue with Uniface.
MnSCU remains current and keeps their mission-critical
applications running reliably for staff and students.

9. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
The Results with Uniface
Moved key pieces of functionality to the web, making
them easier to use and more accessible for the application
end users.
Integrated with various technologies that their IT
infrastructure is composed of, including COBOL, Java and
OpenVMS.

10. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
Our biggest concern was, of course, if
everything would still work once we
migrated
to Oracle, and it did. We let Uniface
connect to the database and do all the
effort, that worked out really well for us.”
Dave Willford,
Application Development Manager,
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

11. CUSTOMER CASE STUDY Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
The Future with Uniface
For MnSCU, the expectation is set as they plan on moving
more functionality to the web. Thanks to Uniface every
technology step in between has worked, with little effort
Today MnSCU has a truly modernized Uniface application that
will continue to grow and provide value in the years to come.

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