In addition, the Arcad Software portfolio includes many stand-alone ALM solution capabilities, from software audit, systems documentation, testing solutions, through to software package impact change analysis and integration.

IBM Power customers now have a comprehensive solution that not only meets their technical SCM requirements, but will also realize the significant CLM benefits of a collaborative and unified software delivery process across developer teams and disparate technologies such as Java, RPG, Cobol and SQL applications.

Both companies are global market leaders in the IBM Power market segment, and Philippe Magne, CEO of Arcad Software and Steve Norton, President of Oxford International recognized the cultural symmetry of their teams and respective technical disciplines, making the decision to form a partnership very easy.

Steve Norton commented “While Oxford and its RTC for Power practice leads the market in Rational Software for CLM solutions to improve and accelerate software delivery, Arcad Software brings a critical set of integrated SCM solutions that are crucial to effective software management of legacy applications using RPG, Cobol and SQL technologies.

Customers now have a range of product options to not only realize the productivity benefits from CLM but also significant technical benefits from the most advanced SCM products for Power in the industry today.    And for Power customers who are not quite ready to move toward unified or more Agile processes, Arcad’s product suite and bundled solution packs can be quickly adopted  to replace the more tired and expensive legacy SCM products that do not come close to the depth of Arcad ALM solutions.”

Philippe Magne commented “Arcad Software has been installed in more than 33 countries over the past 20 years.   Our ALM and SCM software is the most advanced in the industry because of our experience and policy of continued product development, including the integrated extension for RTC Power.  It was important Arcad Software had a strong, technically disciplined support infrastructure to support North America and Asia Pacific markets that would ensure premier services and ongoing support.   Oxford International meets and exceeds that partner profile, and their Rational disciplines and heritage in IBM Power makes an ideal relationship to provide the right solutions at the right time for IBM Power customers.

Replacing a non-supportive SCM product in MKS, Oxford’s delivery represents a global first of an integrated RTC-Arcad solution at a cost less than that offered by single-solution vendors.
Oxford’s proprietary training program in Rational Developer for Power (RDp) was successfully delivered to a team of 12 legacy developers in early January. RDp adoption not only enables legacy developers to increase productivity through leverage of new RDp capabilities, but also positions each team member to utilize the industry standard, Eclipse based toolset to enable RTC adoption.
With many customized software versions to support its large, diversified customer base, and production software deployed over three different production environments, the SCM challenge was comparative to that of a large software vendor. Workflow process driven, error-free, and easy-to-use software management of its RPG and SQL artifacts that would effectively manage dependency analysis, project builds, and automated software deployment for ~50 application versions was required. RTC and its integrated Arcad SCM components have already come through the first phase with flying colors, from commencement to production in less than two weeks….stand by for more Recent News updates and customer references.

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Rational HATS was used to resolve the challenges of a cryptic, less than user-intuitive functionality of an older 3270 interface. Oxford’s delivery with HATS demonstrated the ability to provide additional real-time information that was not previously possible. The new HATS interface solution radically improves information availability and activity tracking in designated precincts and police units, more easily performs historical searches from its crime base, and automatically refreshes complex queries while tracking the real-time status of incidents in progress.

• Adopting a unified software delivery process across platforms and technologies such as Java and RPG across geographically distributed developer teams
• Improving governance and SOX compliance requirements through full software life cycle traceability
• Improving software integrity through reduction or elimination of erroneous deployments and better controls for application integration across technologies
• Realize a real-time, collaborative software development process for its developer teams to tangibly improve software productivity and accelerate delivery
• Enable stakeholder and management real time visibility of project status and team health through user-friendly web based dashboards
• Adopt an open framework that would simply integrate with external tools such as Sharepoint and Bugzilla

Oxford has been a partner with IBM in Rational Team Concert product development and beta testing and assessment since 2008. Our deep expertise in RTC combined with Oxford’s rich heritage in IBM i/Power platform and products makes Oxford the leading business partner for Rational Team Concert for Power solutions.

Web services and HATS web technology were employed to leverage workflow and rules engines and enable new rules to enhance the benefit application process.   Web services would preserve existing business rules, eliminate throw-away code, and contribute to a legacy retirement strategy; web services construction provided a well-defined set of interfaces whereby a new solution for eventual legacy system replacement could simply plug into the Web services sockets.   Project duration: one year from discovery to production!