Offering transit services across Austria, the ÖBB Group transports more than 450 million passengers each year, and more than 180,000 tons of goods every day. Given the scale of its operations, the organization places a premium on reliability, service, and efficiency. In order to streamline and improve the administration of its NonStop platforms, ÖBB selected The Operations Pack (TOP) from comForte. With TOP, ÖBB was able to significantly simplify NonStop administration, which helps administrators save time and effort.

The Challenge
The ÖBB Group is responsible for delivering Austria’s passenger train and bus services, rail freight services, and more. Today, the organization employs a workforce of about 46,000. For years, the organization has relied on HP NonStop servers for a host of critical services. Over time, however, the organization’s team of system administrators was hampered by the NonStop system’s TACL command line interface, which was complex and time consuming to work with. Consequently, the organization’s staff sought to find a management solution that would help simplify ongoing administrative tasks

The Solution
After receiving recommendations from other NonStop customers, the technical team at ÖBB selected the TOP solution from comForte. TOP is a management tool that provides an Explorer type interface for managing HP NonStop networks, subsystems, and components. Using TOP, authorized ÖBB staff can use their Windows workstations to operate NonStop servers.

The Benefits
TOP makes managing NonStop servers much easier for the staff at ÖBB. As opposed to using the complicated, laborious TACL command line interface, administrators can manage NonStop servers much more intuitively and quickly. Rather than having to rely on manual commands, administrators can now use a simple point-and-click interface to view and edit files, and they can easily drag and drop files and other components to desired locations. With TOP, ÖBB can make system administrators more productive, while reducing the mistakes associated with manual, command line-driven efforts.

About ÖBB
The ÖBB Group started to operate on 1 January 2005. Based on the Federal Railway Structure Act 2003 (Bundesbahnstrukturgesetz 2003) one of the greatest change management processes ever in an Austrian business was successfully put on track. Today, the ÖBB Group employs a workforce of about 46,000. Based on its new strategy it aims at positioning itself among the top European railways.