Bonneville Power Administration Testimonial

Owned by Jimmie Clark
Last updated: May 02, 2013

Ralph Erdmann, PMLA, Bonneville Power Administration

Rate Analysis Department
Bonneville Power Administration
905 NE 11th Ave.
Portland, OR 97232

"We have used the Promula Application Development System and the Promula FORTRAN Translator to port the BPA Rate Analysis Model (RAM) from an IBM mainframe to the desktop on a PC running under OS/2. RAM was a large-scale, data intensive model that consisted of about 200 spreadsheet modules, written in a mainframe financial modeling language called IMPACT, and about 30 engineering program modules, written in FORTRAN. These modules were once integrated into a mainframe-based system with a control procedure, written in the arcane IBM Job Control Language (JCL). Promula now gives us a single, integrated, friendly environment in which we can do our rate making on the desktop, quickly, and cost-effectively."

"Promula is really robust and I loved working with it. Promula certainly helped us port RAM to the desktop - without any loss of functionality or performance compared to its mainframe predecessor. Also, with Promula, we were able to use all of the IMPACT source code that we had developed on the mainframe over a period of years - without having to rewrite even a single line of it."