With support costs mounting and a shortage of COBOL programmers, Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), in partnership with Minnesota IT Services (MNIT), recognized it could no longer delay its mainframe modernization project. Working alongside Fujitsu, using Fujitsu’s proprietary PROGRESSION tool suite, MDE has successfully brought its 40-year-old, mission-critical school finance system into the modern age. The result is lower costs, reduced risk and greater flexibility.
