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.
This particular module is destined for development staff during unit testing. With the Test Coverage Analyzer the developer can view the source lines that have not yet been tested, and thereby check that all modified lines have been run at least once. The system continually measures the test coverage rate, to evaluate the overall testing effort. The generated reports can be used as contractual documents between customers and their suppliers.
In line with Software Configuration Management methodologies, the "Changer" module firstly simplifies daily development tasks by maximizing automation and the integrity checking of changes. Thanks to its multi-platform capability, ARCAD-Skipper adapts equally well to native or any kind of Windows, UNIX or Linux development processes. Fully integrated into the Eclipse platform, teams share the same environment that is synchronized by a parallel maintenance control system.
If, like many IT professionals, you have discovered that your documentation is obsolete - or non-existent - Observer offers an immediate solution that also fulfills documentation requirements for [regulatory constraints (SOX, Basel II etc.)].
ARCAD-Open Repository is the only solution on the iSeries market that provides both an overall functional view of the information system, and a technical snapshot down to the field and source line level. ARCAD-Open Repository is the result of over thirteen years of experience in analyzing iSeries applications in various environments (36, AS/400) and languages. The Open Repository core is also equipped with an internal macro-language (Macro-Maker) that enables the user to tailor existing ARCAD modules and produce customized solutions in just days. The products are distributed with standard "macro-commands," which users can adapt for their own needs.
When projects impact your database, you should still be targeting maximum automation, as the only sure way to team productivity and exhaustive code transformation. Impact analysis constitutes a sizeable proportion of any information system modification. It is an essential preliminary step in the success of any IS evolution project. Many maintenance projects also require database modifications (field addition and size modification, for example). Eliminating the risks involved in modifications and their corresponding adaptations is a lengthy and tedious task that entails two major concerns: Impact analysis and code conversion.
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.
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.
ARCAD Software was created in 1992. The early years were dedicated to developing its ambitious product line. In 1996 the first releases were marketed to very large international customers, who put a premium on software development productivity and maintenance.
ARCAD Software is first and foremost a software vendor delivering high-quality software solutions to IT professionals. In order to stay in touch with the daily requirements and concerns of IT departments, ARCAD Software also offers training, consulting and technical expertise for ARCAD products.
ARCAD is thus the fruit of two skill sets, a methodology expertise inherited from its origins, and a technical proficiency on the iSeries platform.
The ARCAD-Skipper suite fits in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) market covering Software Configuration Management methodologies, version control, deployment and test. Right from user request handling up to the transfer of new versions to production, ARCAD-Skipper secures a general framework for all change processes.
To provide multi-platform application mining software for iSeries combined with integrated change management tools to ensure high productivity in Web migration, maintenance and enhancement activities. ARCAD Software, role : vendor/integrator. Our role does not stop at software development. Our team of expert consultants can with work you through the implementation stages. They contribute their experience in successful integration projects and facilitate the transfer of skills. Whatever your mix of development and/or production processes, don't hesitate to contact us. We can work together to select the right solutions and methods for you and your business.
ARCAD-Observer is the only product in the iSeries field to summarize application architecture and rules with a set of graphical tools, in order to sift through a vast quantity of diverse information and understand an application in seconds prior to making changes.
All ARCAD employees work in a spirit of maximum quality service. We consider reactivity and follow-through with our customers as one of our key success factors and we are committed to maintaining a personal relationship with each and every one. Our customers are a constant source of input in our development strategy.
Testing procedures are costly but necessary. Indeed, numerous test phases are required to ensure a satisfactory level of reliability for your users. Automatic test tools are a useful and effective solution to help control these costs. These tools guarantee non regression of the information system through thorough and in-depth testing. In the case of regular maintenance or urgently-needed corrections, these tools are indispensable to guarantee the automatic testing of peripheral functions that may be indirectly affected by a change.
$200 billion are spent per year on application maintenance, IT organizations spend 70% of their time maintaining their applications, instead of developing new ones, 84% of software development projects are not completed on schedule, Over 50% of all business-critical software projects are late, over budget, or deployed with reduced functionality, 60% of companies in the iSeries market are migrating their strategic applications to a Web architecture.
The ARCAD-Customer Help-Desk is a latest generation technical support management suite, offering more services with the same simplicity of use. ARCAD-Customer takes end-user relations to a new level and extends management and control over the technical support activity.
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.
iSeries customers tend to be software-package oriented. Many of our customers do not even have development teams. Do they have anything to gain from using ARCAD? Yes, absolutely, because they still need to integrate application changes. Furthermore, many iSeries clients have architectures that combine standard third-party software packages with their own developments. Given the impact these changes can have on your environment, it can be very difficult to integrate new versions of these third-party applications.
Our products and services are intended both for user businesses with their own inhouse development teams and those that either outsource this process or use only software packages. ARCAD solutions are also aimed at information technology professionals in general. Our customers range from IT companies proposing facilities management or tool based turnkey projects (information system auditing and restructuring, retro-documentation, etc.) through to iSeries software vendors.
All of the ARCAD suites (with the exception of [ARCAD-Customer ]) are integrated through through this common core, drawing on the information and enriching the range of features available.
With the ARCAD-Qualifier suite you rapidly improve the productivity of your testing phases and attain the application reliability you have been looking for. Given the critical nature of today's applications, and the impact of a malfunction on the organization, the question "how can I improve and maintain the reliability of my applications?" becomes top priority. ARCAD-Qualifier answers this need with three complementary modules.
The ARCAD-Skipper suite guarantees you full control over your application changes. It applies a structured organizational framework based on robust and proven methodologies. By this alone, IT departments often see productivity gains exceeding 30%. ARCAD Skipper is a suite, for defining a set of working environments and automating the lifecycle of software components, such as transfer to test, transfer to production, distribution and multi-machine installation.
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.
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.
As companies are increasingly subject to external pressures such as IT governance and regulatory requirements, they have a growing need for dashboard tools to assist in evaluating application maintainability, and support the secure and efficient enhancement of legacy applications.
The multi-platform approach to components and data is vital, as it means that the same procedures and the same levels of security can be used to automatically synchronize the deployment of components and data to heterogeneous servers. And of particular interest to software vendors, complementary functions such as the delivery portal allow on-demand dispatching of patches, CDs and documentation.
Thanks to their open architecture, the ARCAD products can be either customized or used in standard format. This makes them a safe choice for the evolving requirements of a wide range of customers.
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.
Result : productivity gains exceeding 50% in mass transformation projects. This tool not only automates impact analyses for projects underway, it also allows you to automatically obtain between 50% and 100% of your source code modifications. Your ROI is immediate, starting with the first project. It guarantees automation of your processes by implementing proven and efficient technology that covers every phase of your projects.