Legacy Migration the
M Corp Way
Millions of Californians rely on the Employment Development Department (EDD) to provide unemployment and disability benefits every month. It is vital to Californians relying on these services that they not be interrupted for any reason. When the EDD needed to complete a massive conversion of 4 billion rows of data that included records for more than 18 million people, M Corp was hired as the project’s prime contractor and made it happen on time and under budget.
For the last 22 years, EDD has run the mission critical unemployment and disability insurance application to manage payment and claim information on a IDMS based system. These critical systems are large and extremely complicated; and the database became too inflexible to support the business needs of the customer. Business and legislative necessities grew, California’s economy sank, job losses spiked to record proportions and EDD’s old IDMS database was very quickly on the verge collapsing under the pressure. M Corp was called in by EDD to assist in the migration to the new modern DB2 database. With M Corp as their prime contractor, EDD was able to complete a major transformation of 30 years of data that included unemployment and disability insurance claims records for more than 18 million people – without any interruption of service to clients.
