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Like many other markets, the Application Lifecycle Management market has become dominated /
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by big players like IBM, Microsoft and not least the open source community which is increasingly /
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popular. How can an ISV like ARCAD Software exist in a world driven to de facto standards? Here /D
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• First because ARCAD has constantly invested in expertise on the IBM i platform. 22 years of
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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 /
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• Secondly because at ARCAD Software, our philosophy can be summarized in one single word:
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openness. The ARCAD architecture allows us to very quickly adapt to new standards. The ARCAD
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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-/
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• Third, because ARCAD Software is a real innovator in its field. The finest example is the “Data
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Configuration Management” concept. We’ve found a way to apply configuration management
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principles to data values. We thereby automate a process which is still purely manual in 99% of /
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It is this unique market position that has enabled ARCAD to become a technology partner with the /
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worldwide leader in ALM; the ARCAD technology has been included in the IBM Rational catalog
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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. /
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I leave you to discover our services and products in the following pages - you’ll understand why we
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will be hearing the ARCAD name for many years to come… /
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ARCAD Software helps you to optimize and These methodologies are making headway
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secure your application change process. in all sectors, both industrial and tertiary, as
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/ We have created an integrated and modular they provide an indispensable safeguard in
/ toolset to: the increasing criticality of applications.
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/ • Harness the ever increasing complexity of ARCAD Software, now more than 1000
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your information system, licenses spread throughout 34 different
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• Guarantee its stability, countries worldwide.
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• A multi-technology offering: Our R&D and consultancy teams, with experts in IBM i, client/
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server, and Web development, pride themselves on their versatility,
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• An integrated product range: ARCAD solutions are developed by the same core team, and
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are all integrated over a common metadata repository. This has favored natural linkages
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/ • An open architecture: Thanks to the open architecture of the ARCAD solutions, they are
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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
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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-
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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.
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/ ARCAD Pack for Rational (APR) - IBM Rational and ARCAD Software combine technologies to bring a truly innovative
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solution to the change management market – set to become the new ALM standard on the IBM i platform. The “ARCAD
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/5 Pack for Rational” integrates Rational Team Concert (RTC) for collaborative lifecycle management with several key
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The ARCAD Software technology covers multiple inter-related solutions in the Application Lifecycle
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/ Management market. It started out in 1988 with a simple IBM i 5250 Change Management tool and has
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how tedious the task is to migrate from your current release to a new one. This becomes even more difficult when
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The objective of this technology is "To provide a means of describing the "critical data" of a given application, detecting
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their changes within a particular execution instance and automating their transfer to production, whatever their underlying/
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The value of the ARCAD Data Configuration Management technology becomes clear when you consider that today in 99%/
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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
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