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fecher announces the successful completion of a porting project at Austrian ERP provider Ramsauer & Stürmer. As part of a multiyear project, the fecher team transferred rs2 - an extensive Gupta application consisting of about 2 million lines of code - to the more modern .NET platform using the tool-supported Porting Project service. This enabled the Salzburg-based company to preserve the expertise gained from 150 people-years of development while simultaneously ensuring the application's long-term further development. Initially only implemented with new clients, Ramsauer & Stürmer has now also begun converting its existing customer base.

rs2 has been installed around 350 times in Austria; it is comprised of software modules for the areas of accounting, materials management, production and customer relationship management. It also provides solutions for document and data management, business intelligence, and individual workplaces and workflows. Markus Neumayr, Managing Partner of Ramsauer & Stürmer, is very pleased that he did not have to completely redevelop the complex ERP landscape comprised of around 400 applications: "Instead of scrapping everything and starting over, with porting, we were able to keep what was good and then use the new functions offered by .NET to simply supplement what was missing." The new version of rs2 is characterized by improved performance, an optimized GUI, and document management and workflow components that access the software directly.

Eberhard Fecher, founder and owner of the consulting and software company fecher explains: "Compared to a redevelopment, this client - like many others - has saved a lot of time and money and most importantly has prevented its software from entering the maintenance period. As we have successfully completed 150 porting projects, word has now gotten around that a platform change can be relatively painless, even with software as extensive and complex as rs2".