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......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / EDITORIAL/ / / / / /L /A / /RI / /O Like many other markets, the Application Lifecycle Management market has become dominated / T by big players like IBM, Microsoft and not least the open source community which is increasingly / I popular. How can an ISV like ARCAD Software exist in a world driven to de facto standards? Here /D are three important reasons: / /E / • First because ARCAD has constantly invested in expertise on the IBM i platform. 22 years of / sustained R&D effort have brought us to the position of having the widest range of products in the / worldwide market. The ARCAD solutions close the gap between customers’ particular needs and / standard solutions, by fulfilling all the specific requirements that will never be covered by standard / 2 solutions. / / / • Secondly because at ARCAD Software, our philosophy can be summarized in one single word: / openness. The ARCAD architecture allows us to very quickly adapt to new standards. The ARCAD / solutions always find their place in your organization without having to forgo the existing tools you / are already using. That’s the reason why you can implement ARCAD to integrate with other stan-/ dard products you’ve already adopted. / / / • Third, because ARCAD Software is a real innovator in its field. The finest example is the “Data / Configuration Management” concept. We’ve found a way to apply configuration management / principles to data values. We thereby automate a process which is still purely manual in 99% of / organizations. / / It is this unique market position that has enabled ARCAD to become a technology partner with the / / worldwide leader in ALM; the ARCAD technology has been included in the IBM Rational catalog / now since April 2013. / / But tools without a strong methodology are like music without a score. This is why we offer our / methodology expertise to our customers in several different forms, from organizational consulting / through to Release Management as a service. / / / I leave you to discover our services and products in the following pages - you’ll understand why we / will be hearing the ARCAD name for many years to come… / / / / / / / / Sincerely yours, / Philippe Magne, / CEO & Chairman / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / A GLOBAL PLAYER / / / / IN THE ALM MARKET / / / / HIGHLY SPECIALIZED / / / / ON AND AROUND / / / THE IBM i PLATFORM / / / / / / / / / / ARCAD Software helps you to optimize and These methodologies are making headway / secure your application change process. in all sectors, both industrial and tertiary, as / / We have created an integrated and modular they provide an indispensable safeguard in / toolset to: the increasing criticality of applications. / / • Harness the ever increasing complexity of ARCAD Software, now more than 1000 / your information system, licenses spread throughout 34 different / • Guarantee its stability, countries worldwide. / / • Capitalize on functional and technical / knowledge, / • Converge different technology cultures, / • Guarantee quality of service of your IT / 3 department. / / “Protect / Born out of an industrial project initiated in / 1988 at the European Space Agency, the / ARCAD solutions are a response to the need your software / for software quality control. They benefit from / a dual expertise: methodology skills from the / / space industry, and technology skills around assets” / the IBM Power platform, whether you are / using IBM i, Windows, AIX or Linux operating / systems. / / / / / / / / / / / / STRENGTHS / / • A multi-technology offering: Our R&D and consultancy teams, with experts in IBM i, client/ / server, and Web development, pride themselves on their versatility, / / • An integrated product range: ARCAD solutions are developed by the same core team, and / are all integrated over a common metadata repository. This has favored natural linkages / / between the various suites, resulting in productivity features that are unique in the different / markets we cover. / / • An open architecture: Thanks to the open architecture of the ARCAD solutions, they are / easily integrated with other tools, without any need for custom code. The solutions can be / used out-of-the-box or simply configured to specific needs. This makes them a good choice / to meet evolving requirements for a wide range of customers. / / / Who needs the ARCAD ARCAD Software, support in ARCAD Software, role : ARCAD Software, solutions? implementing new regulations vendor/service provider shared values… Whether you are in software Besides the increasing com- Our role is not just to develop All ARCAD employees work in development or a 3rd party plexity of system architectures, products. Of course, our team a spirit of maximum quality ser- software user, the ARCAD solu- the strategic position of the AR- of expert consultants can work vice. tions apply to anyone affected CAD solutions has strengthened you through the implementa- We consider reactivity and fol- by the software change due to the external pressure tion of our toolset. They contri- low-through with our customers process: applied to IT departments: bute their experience in suc- as one of our key success fac- cessful integration projects and tors and we are committed to • User companies, both small Regulatory requirements facilitate the transfer of skills. maintaining a personal relation- and large accounts, deve- Many companies are subject to ship with each and every one. lopment and operations, from laws covering the security and Whatever stage you are at in Our customers are a constant testing teams through to ma- traceability of software proces- your development and produc- source of input in our develop- nagers, sing of financial and accounting tion processes, don’t hesitate to ment strategy. data (Sarbanes Oxley, Financial contact us. We can together • IT service companies, as a Security Laws, Basel II, Basel III, decide how to move forward means of transparency in the Solvency II). on the path to automation. management in their outsour- cing contracts, Certification of software • Software vendors, for greater processes professionalism as perceived Over one in three large compa- by customers. nies, worldwide, is currently en- gaged in a certification process (ITIL, CMM, ISO…). The ARCAD Software solutions are fundamental to any such certification. / / / / / / / / /T APPLICATION /N /E / M / LIFECYCLE /E / G / /A MANAGEMENT /N / A / /M / /E /L /C / Y / /C /E / F / I /L / /N /O / /TI Anchor best practices into your application lifecycle /A /C / I ARCAD Software develops and supplies the industry’s leading Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products for /L /P IBM Power systems running IBM i, with one of the widest and most modular offerings available - including Rational Cer- /P tified solutions that seamlessly integrate with Rational Team Concert (RTC). Twice winner of the IBM Rational award for / /A Innovation in Enterprise Modernization 2012/2013, the company has over 20 years of experience in enterprise moderni- / zation on IBM i and customers across 34 countries. / / ARCAD Pack for Rational (APR) - IBM Rational and ARCAD Software combine technologies to bring a truly innovative / solution to the change management market – set to become the new ALM standard on the IBM i platform. The “ARCAD / /5 Pack for Rational” integrates Rational Team Concert (RTC) for collaborative lifecycle management with several key / ARCAD solutions, for rich IBM i functionality and automation of application analysis, source conversion, build and deploy. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / SOLUTIONS / / / / PACKS /S / E / /L MODULES /U / D / /O / M / / /| /S / K / /C / ARCAD Software modules are integrated, and can be combined in several different configurations, to best fit your A / needs. Modules can be combined into Solutions and Packs (see below). This flexibility means you purchase, install and/ P implement only the modules you really need. ARCAD solutions are scalable, simplifying the installation process and/ ensuring optimal sizing and cost for your team size. / | /S /N / /O / I /T /U / /L /O / S / / / / / / 6 / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / SOLUTIONS / / / / / / / / / / / / / / The ARCAD Software technology covers multiple inter-related solutions in the Application Lifecycle / / Management market. It started out in 1988 with a simple IBM i 5250 Change Management tool and has / been enhanced, thanks to our customer requirements, to a way broader view. / / Today, our integrated offer covers: / / /S /N Enterprise Modernization / /O ARCAD Software has a long and proven experience in Enterprise Modernization, having analyzed thousands of / I legacy applications worldwide. We continually invest in that area and produce new ideas that will push the limits of /T application modernization. You will find under that umbrella the tools you need to modernize both: /U / • Your developers’ environment and working methods /L • Your IBM i native applications /O / We are talking here about a long term modernization strategy, answering the following key questions: S / • how to hire (and keep) new young developers ? / • how to maintain and transfer knowledge of your existing application onto those new resources? / / • how to progressively move to a modern architecture, accessing your strategic application thru multiple user / interfaces ? / • how to quickly adapt your applications with regards to new business needs such as expanding the size of fields or 7 / converting an application to be full Unicode compliant ? / / / Software Configuration Management / / / In today's environment, you cannot ensure productivity of your development processes without Software Confi- / guration Management tools. Over time they have become as necessary as source code editors, compilers and / debuggers. They are mandatory to preserve what is one of the most valuable assets of your organization: your / source code. They will help you with: / • implementing a well structured organization around your change processes to maintain your developers’ produc- / / tivity even in an increasingly complex technological environment. / • guaranteeing the non regression of your enhancements, even if you have multiple projects to conduct at the / same time. / • measuring and even assuring the quality of your changes. / / These tools are also mandatory for those of you facing regulatory constraints such as Sarbanes Oxley, Basel III, HIPAA / / or others. They ensure a total traceability over your change process. / / / Third Party vendor integration / / If your information system is composed of one or several software packages on the market, you will already know / how tedious the task is to migrate from your current release to a new one. This becomes even more difficult when / / you start to develop around the package, anything from program interfaces up to large specific applications. With / ARCAD you will find all the tools needed to ensure: / • Complete traceability of the enhancements, / • Productivity gains during your software upgrades, / • Non-regression of your local specific development. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Data Configuration Management / / / This is certainly the most innovative part of the ARCAD technology. After 10 years, it still has no equivalent on the market today. / The objective of this technology is "To provide a means of describing the "critical data" of a given application, detecting / their changes within a particular execution instance and automating their transfer to production, whatever their underlying/ technical context." / / The value of the ARCAD Data Configuration Management technology becomes clear when you consider that today in 99%/ / of cases, this process is purely manual. Our customers include many insurance companies as they regularly need to refer to / the archives of certain critical data. / / / Test Automation / / / ARCAD Software has been providing Test Automation solutions since 2003. ARCAD does not pretend to cover each and / every aspect of this very wide domain, but here again, our value comes from our strong expertise in the IBM i world. As we/ are dealing here with "mature" and critical applications, the biggest challenge is to guarantee non-regression of the overa/ll system, however many changes have been made. ARCAD provides all the tools you need for: / / /S • Maintaining an accurate set of test data: always up-to-date and not too bulky, /N • Building a permanent firewall against bugs, by detecting regressions automatically. / /O / I Release Management /T /U / Release Management is certainly the most critical phase in the overall Application Lifecycle Management picture. It is in/ L release management that end users can immediately judge your own level of professionalism and the maturity of your orga/- O nization. There is one keyword that matters: Automation. Even if you have only few releases in a year, having an automated/ S process to manage your software releases is the only way to simultaneously obtain: / / / • Productivity: by definition, the productivity of an automated process far exceeds any manual one, / • Traceability: often mandatory for regulatory reasons, / • Security: with built-in safe process (rollback) and non-regression of your production environments, / 8 • High Availability of your information system, thanks to automated and secured processes that can run nightly, with very/ little surveilllance. / / / IT Service Management / / / The term IT Service Management comes from the ITIL best practice framework. The information system is in effect a group o/f functions via which you provide value to your customers or users in the form of services. Because you cannot rely solely on/ your technology and your internal organization, you have to keep a continual focus on the quality of service you provide/ and on your relationship with your customer / end-user. / / / Deploy / Our 20+ years of experience have taught us Release / Management to always design our solutions to be totally Structure / / open. Why is this so important? Because SCoofntwfiagrueration / Management you may have already formalized your ser- Evolve / / vice management processes, or you may Enterprise / Modernization Test have already have some tools in place, or Automation / Third party / your organization may be facing some new vendor / integration challenges - ARCAD has developed an / / open set of tools able to fit your current and / / future needs. DCaotnafi guration / Management / / / / IT service management / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / ARCAD Testing Pack / ARCAD Testing Pack is a bundle of two integrated tools for automating / regression testing and extracting realistic test data from production. / Oriented towards the end-user, they provide a highly pragmatic solution / / for improving the quality and productivity of testing on IBM i. / / / / / / / / / / /S / K / /C / A / P / / / / / / 9 / / / / / / / / ARCAD Integrater Pack / / ARCAD Integrater Pack automates software reception, designed for / companies using 3rd party vendor packages. It has two main objec- / tives: firstly to guarantee the technical quality of vendor deliveries, and / secondly to identify and manage the local impact of a new vendor / / release. / ARCAD-Integrater Pack is suitable for companies with no in-house de- / velopment, or minor development made around a vendor package. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /