ARCAD Software:
A set of solutions to simply manage, organize and secure the evolution of your Information System.
The ARCAD offer covers a variety of markets:
All this with specialized knowledge of the technological environment around the IBM iSeries platform. The iSeries itself being an integration point for multiple technologies, our expertise extends beyond the native iSeries to Windows, UNIX and Linux environments.
All ARCAD solutions are modular, progressive, open, and fully integrated.
The vocation of ARCAD Software is to offer integrated software suites for all phases of the change cycle of an information system. The suites form the cornerstones of a high level methodology, guaranteeing productivity and quality throughout.
The ARCAD suites apply to anyone affected by application change:
The ARCAD solutions apply the same quality skills that defined the success of the space industry to the world of software management on the iSeries. Today, ARCAD is a market leader with 13 years of expertise in the same core business since its inception.
For efficient control over your application changes, you will need precise dashboard information.
In these downstream phases, the ARCAD-Skipper suite aims for 100% automation, thanks to its own internal macro-language. With this level of automation, procedures can be triggered at night, checked remotely and most importantly secured with powerful integrated rollback functions. ARCAD-Deliver automates the deployment and installation of objects on local or remote machines. It can be configured for any distribution media or mode (entire applications, "cumulative", "PTF", open distribution). With its entirely customizable "macro-commands," it can adapt to any situation, and all information is logged at several levels (version, component, action, messages) with automatic rollback functions in case of incident.
ARCAD-Qualifier is a wide-reaching software testing suite. It covers the extraction of coherent production data for testing purposes, test coverage measurement, and management of regression test scenarios to ensure automatic replay after an application change. It is unique in being specifically built for the needs of iSeries users.
What makes the ARCAD solutions unique is their integrated design, based on a central repository core. Indeed the same R&D team has designed the products since the company's inception. This is a true guarantee of product consistency and ergonomy. In addition, the modular design of the product range means that implemented solutions are both flexible and scalable.
ARCAD-Integrater is a unique solution specifically designed to handle the tedious, never-ending task of integrating third-party modifications into your environment. This module has two objectives : firstly to guarantee the technical quality of vendor deliveries, and secondly to manage the impact of a new version on related systems, such as interface programs, EAI or other specifically developed software. It provides component error reports that can be relayed back to the supplier, automatically reserving any specific components that need to be adapted. By automating these processes, continual application reliability is assured, whatever the rate of change.
The lion's share of IT service resources is dedicated to maintaining existing applications rather than to developing new ones. Further, security and high availability of applications are critical to the success of companies today, compounded by new regulatory requirements and application modernization needs. So clearly there is a strong argument for installing the right tools to handle these issues proactively. ARCAD-Skipper applies to companies of any scale, for safeguarding legacy applications and ensuring security and productivity during application enhancement.
The defining characteristic of our solution package is its integrated approach. The product line is built around a common core: the ARCAD-Open Repository, the heart of our technology. It is the result of over 13 years of experience in applications analysis.
Since the company's foundation, ARCAD Software has always focused on the performance and functional richness of its products, continually attentive to overall quality and customer satisfaction. Today we are seeing the payback of this approach: the ARCAD product range has the highest level of integration and widest functional scope on the market.
Then the scenario can be replayed at any time, and the tool will automatically restore the original data context prior to scenario execution. Once a "replay" has completed, comparison reports can be generated to highlight differences detected in the user interface, in data, and in spool files.
Software development teams spend at least 50% of their time trying to understand an application before modifying it. The solution to this business problem is application mining software that focuses on productivity in iSeries application maintenance. Application mining is to the IT professional what data mining is to the business manager.
ARCAD-Deliver provides a comprehensive solution which automatically distributes and installs new versions of software to local and remote machines, and allows the IT team to fully customize the process to their needs. Technologically, this tool uses a system of lists, which are created by the different batches of modifications transferred to production. It is possible to select objects or sources according to criteria that can be cumulated. These lists are built automatically by the [ARCAD-Changer ] solution. The system allows you to create coherent batches (retrieval of logical files depending on a physical file, programs using certain files, etc).
The Extract module solves this problem by building extraction queries that respect referential integrity. The system relies on the use of database links, stored in the [ARCAD repository ], that are also used to produce the database diagrams in the [ARCAD-Observer ] suite. This is an example of the added value of the integrated architecture of the ARCAD suites. Disk space requirements are estimated and the queries are run as often as necessary. The data itself can be downloaded onto a given system or onto a remote partition.