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Henri Selmer Paris optimizes their IT operations

Henri Selmer Paris, an essential worldwide reference in the music world as a maker of top of the line wind instruments and accessories, have optimized their Information System Production needs thanks to the Dollar Universe job scheduler from ORSYP.

Paris, January 17, 2006 - Every day, Henri Selmer Paris produces semi-handcrafted saxophones, clarinets and brass instruments, at their Paris region workshops.

Every instrument is made to a provisional production schedule drawn up every month and updated in line with biannual forecasts.

In this context, the company's information system is based on three main applications that manage the group's day to day business: accounting and sales management, time management using a badge based system and the company's production management system. Each of these applications generates processing tasks to be performed daily, weekly or monthly, such as time monitoring, payroll or billing.

In 2004, the IT team at Henri Selmer Paris took advantage of the need to replace their servers to add a job scheduler.

"Before we made this acquisition, all of the IT processing at Henri Selmer Paris was run manually or using a very primitive "homemade" scheduler. Every day our company had to tell the system which processing tasks to run.

In addition, someone had to be present when the monthly backups were run and including a one-off process into the sequence was often complicated"declares Gilles Serander, IT Manager at Henri Selmer Paris.

There was a twofold reason for this implementation: improving daily business process operations and minimizing the amount of time dedicated every day to administering IT production.

Henri Selmer Paris soon decided on Dollar Universe from ORSYP, a system that now offers the company some major advantages:

• Efficient run sequence self-testing: using Dollar Universe, if an incident occurs, process execution is immediately suspended and the error automatically communicated. Once the incident is identified, it then becomes easy to quickly restart the running of the impacted process sequence.
• Overall operating supervision: thanks to Dollar Universe, a single click is all it takes to find out what processing is running on the two application servers. Reading operations is made easy by color coding so that anticipating processing operations is made easier and therefore faster.
• Complete production automation: all operations can be automated. It is no longer necessary to configure process running every night, since repetitive tasks that previously had to be handled by staff members have been eliminated, freeing them to devote their attention to more important tasks while avoiding any manually induced errors.
• Flexible processing scheduling: now Henri Selmer Paris can perform major backup processing tasks without locking the system during office hours. This is because calendar based scheduling allows processing to be run on weekends without the need for operator supervision.

These scheduling rules also make it possible to guarantee proper operation and perfect data integrity.

"Dollar Universe has allowed us to eradicate repetitive and time consuming tasks from our daily routine. Our management of IT systems operations has been simplified considerably. Dollar Universe has allowed us to simplify not just the daily handling of IT operations but also the daily work for all of our company's staff" concludes Gilles Serander, IT Manager for Henri Selmer Paris.

ORSYP

ORSYP has developed unique expertise in the industrialization of computer operations in all environments (mainframe, open systems, centralized and distributed) since 1986. Considering production services as the pulse of corporate activity and the center of its information system, ORSYP has put together a comprehensive response to computer operations issues. The offer is built upon two main activities: software publishing – Dollar Universe, true cross-platform job scheduler - and IT Operations Consulting. ORSYP distributes Dollar Universe worldwide through its own offices ( U.S.A , U.K. , Germany , France , Italy , Spain , Netherlands , Belgium , and Switzerland ) and through international distributors and integrators.

Dollar Universe has become one of the foremost solutions for the automation of production services. With over 35,000 licenses sold worldwide, Dollar Universe, thanks to its innovative concepts, has satisfied the constraints and needs of mission critical applications in many major corporations.