The Challenge

Tesco plc is a major international retailer with over 4,200 stores in more than a dozen countries and annual sales in 2008/9 of £59 billion. The retail giant Tesco has aggressive plans for global growth and has expanded its international presence significantly, including penetration of the huge US market. A key element in its expansion plan is its common operating model, which called for crucial mainframe applications to be modernized to run on standardized platforms worldwide.

The Solution

Micro Focus® Studio™

Micro Focus® Server™

The Benefits

• Much lower cost than rolling out mainframe based solution
  
• Can maintain a near single code base across the group
  
• Functions quickly available to international operations
  
• Ability to 'refresh' the user interface
  
• Lower risk and much faster than trying to add new functionality to Oracle Retail or rewrite capabilities from scratch