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The world's only RPG compiler for Microsoft .NET platform, AVR for .NET is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 and compiles to 100% verifiable Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). AVR for .NET is the only product available for Microsoft .NET that specifically targets the iSeries 400 database.

Plex is a highly productive development tool that uses software patterns, models, and generators to enable organizations to quickly design and deliver sophisticated business applications for Windows and System i (iSeries, AS/400) environments.

Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET is a COBOL compiler created specifically for Microsoft .NET Framework and includes—and integrates with—Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

LANSA Open for .NET does much more than just connect .NET with System i databases in an extremely fast and efficient manner. It opens up the System i to .NET developers in a productive, safe and disciplined fashion, by seamlessly connecting .NET developers and applications with standards and discipline of the LANSA rules based meta data repository. One reason to implement LANSA’s repository is so that your business applications become abstracted from the technology layer, such as your System i or DB2 database. Visual Studio developers can work in the environment that they are most familiar with and still gain all the advantages of the repository on the System i or Windows server.

looksoftware's 'Dynamic Environment' is an integrated toolset for modernizing iSeries applications which includes development capabilities allowing iSeries applications to be easily and rapidly extended.

Visual Studio 2005 provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams.

With the ability to test your applications that integrate with an IBM iSeries and Windows Server 2003, Original Software gives you a single vendor for cross-platform testing. Includes support for rich clients, browsers and 5250; database support includes DB2\400 and SQL Server 2000.

Develop IBM iSeries® Client/Server or Internet applications from concept to production faster with Model Driven Architecture™ and UML™ visual design features. Build dynamic Web applications quickly with visual server-side Web application development. To target the primary roles in e-business development, Delphi/400 gives access to Microsoft .NET that developers have been waiting for.

To target the primary roles in e-business development, Delphi/400 ships in 3 different versions: Architect, Enterprise, and Professional.

Visual LANSA is the leading development environment for Windows, Web, and System i (iSeries and AS/400) application platforms. With its unique rules-based meta data repository for users and developers, Visual LANSA allows both Windows and System i applications and developers to share the exact same code base, security, and business rules. If your current applications or development skills need to be integrated with or migrated to .NET, then you need to take a further look at Visual LANSA.

Websydian A/S develops and markets products that are used to develop secure, transactional e-business sites building on existing business logic and systems. These products are the e-business development tool Websydian™ Product Suite and the e-business product Websydian™ Express. Websydian products have been on the market since 1998, and today more than 200 customers in 34 countries are using these tools and products.

ASNA DataGate connects .NET applications directly to the OS/400 DB2 UDB database. When connected to the iSeries-400 platform, DataGate for iSeries provides client applications read/write record-level access, remote program calls to OS/400 program objects and OS/400 object management. DataGate for iSeries is available now. It also allows the same .NET applications that connect to iSeries-400 to connect without code change to Microsoft's SQL Server.

Provides standards-based infrastructure products to access IBM DB2 servers running on iSeries and AS/400 platforms. High performance .NET , OLE DB, and ODBC product families enable server and client applications to read and write data to IBM DB2 databases. Toolkits .NET, Active Server Page and Visual Basic get developers up and running quickly.

LANSA Integrator connects any disparate applications, databases, or platforms with your System i (AS/400) applications and data. Using almost any transport service, it allows the transformation of manual processes into automated A2A and B2B transactions and transforms data into any necessary format.

looksoftware's centric makes multi-platform integration easy. Support for fast, record level read/write access to DB2 and RPC access for iSeries commands and programs provides rapid interoperability. centric also includes Web services consumption support and read/write access to any ADO compliant database.

Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004 helps customers integrate their mission-critical host applications, data sources, messaging and security systems within a Microsoft .NET Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), enabling the reuse of IBM mainframe and midrange data and applications across distributed environments.

The Attunity Integration Suite (AIS) dramatically simplifies access and integration to enterprise information systems, specializing in data sources and legacy applications ranging from Windows to Mainframe. The Attunity Integration Suite provides a single, cross-platform architecture that allows existing systems to be reused in many different initiatives.

CONNX Solutions flagship product, CONNX, is a data access, management, and integration tool that positions organizations to meet the IT challenges of today, while providing a reusable framework for the future. CONNX provides real-time, read/write, SQL access to non-relational and relational data sources, using open data access standards (ODBC, OLE DB, JDBC and .NET). With CONNX, companies can connect to various enterprise, departmental, or desktop databases, using any standards-based compliant tool/application as if they were a single relational database. This all can be accomplished without disruption to existing systems or extensive programming. CONNX can be deployed to help with the following projects:
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Data Integration

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Legacy (non-relational) modernization

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Web application and client/server development

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Ad Hoc Reporting

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Business Intelligence

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Data Migration/Warehousing

Covast offers a suite of products designed to facilitate fast, cost-effective integration of EDI applications and systems into single platform environments, such as those supported by Microsoft BizTalk Server. Covast enables companies to extend the document transformation capabilities of their current platform to create a complete, fully-integrated B2B solution.

RPG XML Suite unites RPG and Microsoft .NET programmers by providing an industry standard interface to operate on—Web services. RPG programmers can easily offer Web services right from the System i5 that .NET programmers can consume directly from Microsoft Visual Studio like any other Web service. Additionally, RPG XML Suite allows you to make calls to .NET Web services! Maintain the investment in your System i5 by creating seamless, real-time transactions to the Microsoft platform with RPG XML Suite. Download a free trial today!

LANSA Composer delivers the power of BPI technology so designers and business analysts (rather than developers) can rapidly automate and integrate business processes (including those processes on a System i). It satisfies the four key requirements of a business process integration solution: Transport - moving data between source and target; Transformation - mapping data between many different formats; Process Orchestration - sequential and conditional execution of process flow; and Administration - auditing, error-handling, logging, security, and system operations.

LANSA Open for .NET does much more than just connect .NET with System i databases in an extremely fast and efficient manner. It opens up the System i to .NET developers in a productive, safe, and disciplined fashion, by seamlessly connecting .NET developers and applications with standards and discipline of the LANSA rules-based meta data repository. One reason to implement LANSA’s repository is so that your business applications become abstracted from the technology layer, such as your System i or DB2 database. Visual Studio developers can work in the environment that they are most familiar with and still gain all the advantages of the repository on the System i or Windows server.

Linoma Software provides the GoAnywhere product for automating and securing the exchange of data with System i, Windows, Linux, and UNIX systems. GoAnywhere connects to Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and MySQL database servers. It can be used to secure data using Open PGP, SSL, SSH, and AES encryption standards. GoAnywhere allows organizations to streamline the exchange of data with FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, and POP3 servers. With GoAnywhere, customers are saving a significant amount of time and money by eliminating the custom programming and manual steps traditionally required.

soarchitect provides Web services access to existing System i applications without changing a line of code. Drag-and-drop definition allows monolithic applications to be accessed as SOA compliant services. Support for bi-directional Web services enables flexible multi-platform integration.

Patrick Townsend & Associates provide a set of products that enable easy and secure integration of data and applications between System i and Windows.

Pragma Systems Inc., is a leading provider of enterprise class remote access and security software for Windows and Windows Mobile platforms. Pragma is an industry leader in Secure Shell and Telnet technology and offers the most popular SSH and TelnetServer for Windows. The company's end-to-end solutions of servers and clients on the desktop and mobile devices provide highly secure access to corporate supply chain, CRM, distribution, and warehouse applications over wireless, Bluetooth, LAN, WAN, and mobile networks. For more information contact Pragma Systems, Inc., at 512-219-7270, send e-mail to pragma@pragmasys.com, or visit www.pragmasys.com.

Q4bis takes the power and value of Microsoft tools and combines them with our long history of high-impact data warehouse design and award-winning tool set to create analytics that are quickly available to the business users who make the decisions.

Break down the walls between your iSeries and PC with data integration solutions from RJS Software Systems. RPG2SQL Integrator allows you to seamlessly transfer data between iSeries and PC databases. The program shares data in real time across platforms, making it easy to synchronize databases, generate reports, analyze data, and use information more effectively.

What if you could access mainframe and iSeries applications through a COM object interface or a SOAP/XML Web service interface? You can! SEAGULL's LegaSuite is a comprehensive suite of software tools to integrate mainframe and iSeries business applications with the .NET architecture.

Software AG's ApplinX allows iSeries shops to leverage their current investments to conveniently and cost-effectively build Web systems and Web services. Modernization is accomplished using point-and-click composition tools and administration facilities. ApplinX supports iSeries integration with such popular technologies as Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server 2004, and Microsoft Office System 2003.

ASNA Monarch transforms iSeries applications originally written in ILE RPG or RPG/400, into a native Microsoft .NET application. For a complete replatforming, Monarch even migrates your iSeries/i5 database to SQL Server.

CONNX Solutions products, CONNX and CONNX DataSync, provide companies the ability to perform one-time and phased migrations. This allows them to capitalize on their critical decision information and move data faster, less expensively, and without disruption to existing systems. Additionally, CONNX DataSync offers an automated and scheduled process that migrates data from non-relational or relational database systems to Microsoft SQL Server, extending a company’s IT investment to Microsoft database platforms.

Fujitsu PROGRESSION offers the best solution to revitalize and protect your organization's valuable systems. PROGRESSION from the legacy RPG applications to .NET is the smart way for companies to stay competitive with cutting-edge technology. We rely on our listening skills, ingenuity, and attention to detail to craft your unique solution. Because you own the source code, you can maintain your organization's internal repairs and provide immediate solutions independently going forward. Benefits include: no Fujitsu license fees or upkeep; intact business logic; and fast, simple, flexible deployment.

DBMoto from HiT Software is a data replication tool for easily migrating and synchronizing data from any enterprise relational database. By leveraging intuitive graphical mapping tools, transformation wizards, and scripting capability, DBMoto makes the process of moving and transforming data from iSeries to Microsoft SQL Server easy and powerful. In Refresh mode, DBMoto reads data, applies administrator-defined mapping rules, and writes the results to the target database. In Mirroring mode, DBMoto performs real-time incremental replication based on transaction logs.

INFINITE iSeries is a complete solution that makes operation in today's IT environment truly possible. The rehosting suite includes compilers, utilities, and a deployment environment allowing RPG and COBOL applications to be migrated at the source code level and recompiled into native executables for Windows, UNIX, and Linux. The InfiniteWEB tools included provide a development environment to customize screen design, Web deploy, and integrate the legacy application. The InfiniteBI suite makes dynamic business intelligence tools available within the application.

INFINITE Software presents migration, implementation, and support services to manage the complete project from start to finish. Once those systems and applications have been successfully implemented, a deployment environment along with training and assistance is provided to utilize and maintain new tools as IT needs evolve. INFINITE Software enjoys over 100,000 installations in 56 countries and operates globally from offices in Asia, North America, South America, and Europe.

Speedware specializes in providing IT solutions for legacy modernization and migration, as well as application portfolio management. We have helped over 100 customers with their legacy migration and modernization projects over the past ten years. Through the use of proven methodologies, we have established an expertise that is confirmed by a 100% legacy migration success record for some of the largest and best-known Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. Speedware helps companies become more competitive by modernizing the technologies, infrastructure, and methodologies that support their IT organizations, and transitioning these systems to Microsoft platforms. We have established a track record of successful modernization and transition projects for customers with mainframe and midrange computers.

SYKORA-ML provides technology and services that allow for true System i5 migration and modernization to the Microsoft .NET Framework, C#, and any SQL database. SYKORA-ML's unique value is in its ability to preserve your key legacy applications while ensuring there is no residual "RPG" syntax that needs to remain post migration. All the RPG code is converted to C#, not another flavor of RPG. Further additions or modifications to the original RPG code can be migrated separately at a later time; thus, ISVs can maintain their products on both platforms. SYKORA-ML can deliver a full range of migration solutions either directly or through certified partners.

Transoft provides application understanding, migration, modernization, and integration solutions to customers in every region of the world, from offices in the USA and Europe, and with local business partners.

Flynet Viewer gives developers the tools that they need to extend access to a mobile workforce, to modernize iSeries applications by generating Web applications or Web services, and to merge applications on different systems such as UNIX, Mainframe, and iSeries.

looksoftware newlook has a rules-based repository to allow customized UI generation to suit your existing applications. Focus on the key parts of your application and re-design those UIs. Leave the rest to newlook's instant UI generation. The dynamic rules-based approach is the fastest and easiest way to provide modern UIs for your legacy applications.

Visual Studio 2005 is the only development environment built from the ground up to enable integration through XML Web services. By allowing applications to share data over the Internet, XML Web services enable developers to assemble applications from new and existing code, regardless of platform, programming language, or object model. Visual Studio supports 26 languages, including RPG and COBOL.

RAMP is a "reengineering" product that lets you rapidly consolidate your applications into a graphical application framework and then incrementally replace your legacy programs with new reengineered components ¬in a timeframe that makes sense to your organization. RAMP is the perfect hybrid between just UI generation and complete re-development or migration approaches. By providing an Application Framework that consolidates functionality from existing System i applications and new components into a composite application, RAMP address both immediate tactical issues and long-term .NET redevelopment strategies.

Develop IBM iSeries® Client/Server or Internet applications from concept to production faster with Model Driven Architecture™ and UML™ visual design features. Build dynamic Web applications quickly with visual server-side Web application development. To target the primary roles in e-business development, Delphi/400 gives access to Microsoft .NET that developers have been waiting for.

To target the primary roles in e-business development, Delphi/400 ships in 3 different versions: Architect, Enterprise, and Professional.

The LANSA visual framework was designed to boost developer productivity by providing an easy-to-use and intuitive application framework that hides and abstracts low-level functionality to achieve higher levels of productivity and a shorter learning curve. Especially useful for those developers coming from a non-traditional Windows development environment (like the System i, AS/400), the framework enforces a graphical user interface design concepts that follow the standard Microsoft conventions. LANSA's visual application development framework architecture provides a proven development standard for creating robust Windows and Web applications or a combination of both, and makes System i (AS/400) developers as productive as possible by providing templates for common commercial applications. The framework assists in the prototyping, design, deployment and maintenance stages of the modernization application development lifecycle.

Visual LANSA is the leading development environment for Windows, Web and System i (iSeries and AS/400) application platforms. With its unique rules based meta data repository for users and developers, Visual LANSA allows both Windows and System i applications, and developers to share the exact same code base, security and business rules. If your current applications or development skills need to be integrated with, or migrated to .NET, then you need to take a further look at Visual LANSA.

The Matrix System is an enterprise-level software solution created to control and manage packaging lines and warehouses where lot traceability is mission critical. Within the Matrix System is our PES or packaging execution system module, and as the title suggests this core functionality focuses heavily on the set up, running and management of the packaging lines and has many features and functions that are not commonly found in any ERP or homegrown system!

Microsoft Business Solutions are integrated business applications for small and mid-size organizations, and divisions of large enterprises. The products and services are delivered through a worldwide network of channel partners. Microsoft Business Solutions include applications and services for retailers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and service companies, doing business domestically or in multiple countries.

Payroll, time and attendance, and HR for iSeries and Windows Server 2003.

RJS Software's WebDocs is a robust Web-based document management solution that allows businesses to store, route, and manage information electronically. Move to a paperless office by scanning paper documents and importing existing electronic files into the system for secure storage and easy online access. WebDocs reduces paper, storage, and distribution costs, and increases productivity and customer service. The system integrates with existing applications, including ERP and CRM, and is available for iSeries and Windows. SMB and Enterprise versions are also available.

The IMS/21 - Enterprise Document Management Solution simplifies the storing, retrieving, and records management of all your paper documents. Our solution slashes through the paper mess by linking your scanned documents, faxes, correspondence, system generated reports, and even PC graphics to any of your system applications. IMS/21 is easy to learn and easy to use. It's versatile, reliable, and boasts the lowest cost of ownership of any document imaging solution on the market today. Other modules include Signature Capture, eForms, Records, and Content Management. IMS/21 is available on iSeries and Windows with SQL Server.

If you are looking for a next-generation ERP system that runs on Windows and OS/400, and is written in RPG, look no further than Xdata. Built with Visual RPG and Visual Studio, Xdata products play a vital role in enabling businesses with IBM midrange computer systems to enjoy the benefits of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 while directly accessing DB2/400 data with Microsoft Office System 2003.

Aldon is the leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions that brings the benefits of process-driven application change management to IT, accelerating the delivery of mission-critical business applications. Aldon ALM solutions support today's agile organizations by enabling IT teams to greatly improve their products' time to market, reduce business disruptions, achieve regulatory compliance, and increase return on investment. More than 1,300 companies, including 70 of the Fortune 100, rely on Aldon ALM solutions for enterprise software configuration and change management for their IT business processes.

Now you can monitor and manage your iSeries servers and your Windows servers with just one solution. Installed on a Windows server running Microsoft Operations Manager, iSeries messages are aggregated into a single view across your environment. Rules can be set for automatic actions or Windows administrators can issue commands to the iSeries manually.

SafeData is a technology company focused on helping businesses protect their data, minimize downtime, and recover and restore data quickly. Offering Business Continuity Hosting Services via its data centers, SafeData provides cost-effective, subscription-based data protection services to support and protect businesses during a man-made or natural disaster, a technology failure, a power or utility outage, or routine maintenance. SafeData's suite of high availability and disaster recovery offerings allows companies to choose the solution that matches their specific needs. Some SafeData clients include the Calvin Klein division of Warnaco, Nypro, Ocean State Job Lot, Quaker Fabric Corporation, Symmons Industries, and Wachovia.

OpCon/xps delivers true cross platform, event driven automation for over 20 operating environments including Windows, LINUX, i5/OS and Z/OS. OpCon/xps is a fast, flexible way to automate, control, monitor and track a broad range of application processes. OpCon/xps provides sophisticated time and calendar based scheduling capabilities, event driven processing, process driven notifications and whole lot more. Jobs can be triggered by file, traps, dependencies or exception events. Facilities provided allow for predictable execution of complex workloads spanning multiple machines, operating systems or geographies.

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