IBM AS/400 RPG/400, COBOL/400 Development
We know your needs:
- You need AS/400 developers, but you do not have the headcount. Or you do have the headcount, but need to spend a disproportionate amount of resources to hire, train and retain the AS/400 staff.
- You suspect one of the major reasons for the high turnover of your AS/400 staff members is that they are required to provide daily production support and maintenance programming for your legacy AS/400 applications.
- You are purchasing or implementing more and more new systems developed on the .Net, Java or other open platforms. There is a desperate need for very skilled system support people who must have the most effective mastery of the AS/400 (OS/400, CL), in order to link up with all the new systems.
- The AS/400 systems are running some, if not most, of your core, mission critical solutions and you have not been able to justify migrating them to other platforms any time soon simply because of cost and time considerations, as well as the current uncertain economic conditions.
- You are considering the option of using an AS/400 applications "modernization tool" such as Lansa or LookSoftware, but then the questions you have are: Which tool is best for me? Where do I find people with experience on the selected tool? How do I protect my investments in the training and ramp up efforts? What do I do with the people at the end of the modernization project?
Proven solutions to your needs from NewTrek
- NewTrek has a substantial number of experienced in-house AS/400 developers as well as access to a vast number of contract AS/400 programmers and systems consultants. The majority of these staff members are based in Hong Kong. We are able to dispatch the right person to you when you need them and with the exact skills you need.
- You can in-source the required NewTrek AS/400 personnel to work onsite in your offices or you can out-source the work (mostly enhancements development projects) to NewTrek whose AS/400 developers will work in our own offices in Hong Kong and /or China.
- NewTrek has a proven, successful track record of providing effective AS/400 systems "production support" services to our clients. Some of our consultants are equipped with pagers, which enable them to be on standby 24/7 and to remotely provide emergency support to AS/400 customers at any time throughout the year.
- Our AS/400 consultants are able to provide additional "production support" services to fully support your AS/400 production operations: administrative work (monitor/report the production issues and resolutions, provide information for compliance and security audit purposes, document the deployment procedures); as well as providing run-of-the-mill AS/400 applications enhancements development, deployment and maintenance support.
- The NewTrek AS/400 support team includes a number of highly skilled and experienced senior systems engineers who are able to provide expert OS/400 support for your existing and new applications on the AS/400, including the successful implementation of intricate systems interfaces, security and performance tuning solutions.
- The NewTrek AS/400 developers have an average of 15 years of AS/400 experience each and they come from these vertical industries: banking and finance, insurance, manufacturing, distribution and retail. Most, if not all, of them have extensive ERP systems experiences as well as hands on exposure to multiple development and reporting tools. They have the industry knowledge to understand your business needs quickly and accurately.
- A number of the NewTrek AS/400 consultants, who are not only most familiar with RPG/400 and AS/400 applications, but also possess .Net and/or Java development skills. We have in-house skills in successfully using LookSoftware tools to "modernize" a number of AS/400 systems for our clients. These NewTrek consultants, who possess the most sought after skill set combination of RPG/400, .Net and LookSoftware, have also successfully developed new application modules for our clients using their skills in these tools.
Why NewTrek?
Answer: Reliability!
Our AS/400 clients will testify that they can "rely" on NewTrek to
- Provide the capable AS/400 developers and support staff they require in a most timely manner;
- Provide sustained services with little to no staff turnover thus preserving the clients' resources by not having to repeatedly train and orientate new staff;
- Always listen to the clients' concerns (additional staff requirement, budget issues, new business and technical challenges) and take immediate action to resolve these issues for our clients.
Glossary
| AS/400 | IBM AS/400 midrange computer system – first announced in 1988 (renamed as the "IBM eServer iSeries" in 2000 and again as "IBM System i" in 2006) |
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| OS/400 | IBM AS/400 Operating System |
| CL | Control Language – Job control language for the OS/400 |
| RPG/400 | The most widely used programming language on the AS/400 |
| COBOL/400 | The second most popular programming language on the AS/400 (COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language) |
| Lansa | www.lansa.com of U.S. is an AS/400 development tools supplier |
| LookSoftware | www.looksoftware.com of Australia is a developer of AS/400 modernization tools |
| ERP systems | Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning software systems |