Archive for June, 2009
Researcher Says “Reducing IT cost is the top goal, and updating key legacy apps is the top software initiative for 2009 – 2010.”
Vancouver, BC, June 25, 2009 — MAKE Technologies, a leader in legacy application extraction, analysis and transformation.
Alex Woodie, at IT Jungle, mentions cost savings as the key motivation of application modernization among enterprises and SMBs. “The costs of operating monolithic legacy applications makes them unsustainable, and these survey results show that firms are seeking efficient ways to modernize,” said Jean Pierre Garbani, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, as quoted by Woodie.
“For 9 years, we have been helping our clients in these issues,” said Christian Cotichini, founder of MAKE technologies. “We are raising awareness about urgencies of the issues, and helping CIOs to build strategic plans. One of our proven solutions is TLM:CORE.”
TLM:CORE gives a 360º view of any system by mapping business processes, code programs, and data elements in an interactive Web 2.0 repository. TLM:CORE turns black boxes of computer systems into visible assets, which allows analysts to visually navigate associations and dependencies among these 3 elements. By revealing the linkages, TLM:CORE lets customers determine where they can cut cost and how they can update key legacy apps.
At a time when corporations attempt to slash IT cost and transform legacy applications, TLM:CORE provides its customers with an approach for saving costs by providing a 360º view of any applications. To further address the corporations’ top concern, reducing IT cost, MAKE delivers TLM:CORE as a fixed-price engagement including education services.
For a detailed case study, docuementing an example on how MAKE delivered a lower total costs of ownership please go to www.maketechnologies.com/clients/case-study.
For more details about TLM:CORE, please refer to http://www.maketechnologies.com/solutions/core/.
Reference:
Alex Woodie (June 9, 2009), Application Modernization is Top Software Priority, Forrester Says, in IT Jungle, from http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs060909-story10.html
About MAKE Technologies:
MAKE Technologies Inc. is the only solution provider that can effectively analyze and modernize all three aspects of enterprise applications: business processes, source code and data. MAKE’s modernization platform, TLM, helps their global customer base to reduce the cost & risk required to maintain and modernize their mission critical systems. Since 2000, TLM, has revolutionized the way these organizations modernize their legacy systems into real time, distributed and service oriented applications that integrate COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) packages, enterprise middleware, relational databases and run on modern enterprise platforms such as Java EE. The TLM platform is available directly and through a network of worldwide partners. For more information about the company or its products, go to www.maketechnologies.com.
Media Contact:
Junco Kumon
MAKE Technologies Inc.
#1790 – 1188 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6E 4A2
Telephone: 604-738-4999 ext.155
email: jkumon at maketechnologies.com
In these tough economic times organizations are facing new challenges. They are faced with new pressures to further streamline IT budgets, justify IT spending and yet still increase service delivery and efficiency to their businesses, customers, and citizens.
Legacy systems are emerging as significant financial, operational and technical challenges in delivering services and conducting day-to-day business. Although organizations have advanced their IT environment with investments in new technologies, flexible programming and a portfolio of online services, most still live with substantial amounts of costly legacy.
Please join MAKE Technologies, Oracle Corporation and Infinite Systems for this educational event to learn how to reduce your legacy system TCO.
What’s it about?
- How to successfully analyze your legacy systems and extract critical assets to reduce the cost of both maintenance and modernization.
- What are the root causes of failure in legacy modernization/COTS replacement projects & how to avoid them.
- Case Study of a successful modernization project/facts and figures from real world legacy modernization projects.
- Advice on what steps should be taken to manage the lifecycle of mission critical applications.
- How the MAKE approach maximizes the use of Oracle’s platform & applications to provide the best modernization solution that reduces cost, risk, and time while increases organizational agility.
Who should attend?
CIOs, Deputy CIO, IT managers, Quality Control Managers, Auditors and anyone responsible for ensuring the efficiency and integrity of a mission critical legacy system.
Why should I attend?
Learn how you can reduce the your legacy systems TCO, reduce the cost and risk of legacy modernization and ensure an effective transformation of legacy assets to reduce legacy systems dependence
What do I have to do?
Please reserve by filling out the form below or call Ron Warren at 708-250-3877
Time & Date: 9am to 11:30am (CST) on June 18th, 2009
Where: Web / Phone
Media Contact
Junco Kumon
MAKE Technologies Inc.
#1790 – 1188 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6E 4A2
Telephone:
604-738-4999 x155 office
604-738-4979 fax
email: jkumon at maketechnologies.com
Chicago, Illinois, June 8, 2009 – Infinite Support Systems (ISS) has announced it has entered into a partnership with MAKE Technologies to offer legacy analysis & modernization solutions to the marketplace.This partnership will provide the leading option for organizations managing mission critical legacy systems. “One of the top concerns we keep hearing from our customers is providing cost-effective options for legacy modernization.” said Ira Thompson, President & CEO of ISS. “After a lengthy evaluation in researching many solutions, we selected MAKE Technologies and their proven modernization solutions.”
“For Legacy system owners, it’s not a matter of if they will retire and modernize their systems, it’s a matter of when,” said Elliott Lipsey, Vice President, US Market, MAKE Technologies “Partners such as ISS will be working with customers in this local market to advise them and provide key expertise through the modernization process.”
About ISS
Infinite Systems Support, Inc. is a Chicago based management consulting firm with experience in a wide range of information technology services. Established in 1993, ISS provides a broad spectrum of solutions that improve the quality and overall effectiveness its clients. ISS recognizes the crucial role of electronic data systems in the management of information to enhance business effectiveness. ISS’s mission is to incorporate the use of information technology in providing prompt and effective solutions utilizing the highest level of quality. Go to www.infinitesupport.com for more information.
About MAKE Technologies
MAKE Technologies Inc. is the only solution provider that can effectively analyze and modernize all three aspects of enterprise applications: business processes, source code and data. MAKE’s modernization platform, TLM, helps their global customer base to reduce the cost & risk required to maintain and modernize their mission critical systems. Since 2000, TLM, has revolutionized the way these organizations modernize their legacy systems into real time, distributed and service oriented applications that integrate COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) packages, enterprise middleware, relational databases and run on modern enterprise platforms such as Java EE. The TLM platform is available directly and through a network of worldwide partners. For more information about the company or its products, go to www.maketechnologies.com.
Media Contact:
Junco Kumon
MAKE Technologies Inc.
#1790 – 1188 West Georgia St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6E 4A2
Telephone: 604-738-4999 ext.155
604-738-4979 fax
email: jkumon at maketechnologies.com
The Company:
MAKE Technologies is forging the way in the Legacy Modernization field, catching the attention of some of the largest computer technology firms in the world. Remember the Y2K “crisis”? That was nothing compared to what’s in store if Fortune 500 firms, governments and packaged software providers don’t start seriously embarking on modernizing their decades-old applications for the future. We’re developing cutting edge toolsets and methodologies to crack the mysteries of legacy systems and re-engineer them for the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE), service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. Consider MAKE for your next career choice, and see yourself challenging the status quo, doing the undoable, and having the time of your life.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
MAKE Technologies Inc. is seeking talented individuals to join our Quality Assurance team. Duties include: Test Case Writing from Business Requirements or Use Cases, Test Case Execution and Defect Reporting.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience testing software applications.
- Experience with System, Integration, User Acceptance Test Phases
- Familiarity with Java Testing
- Testing of Windows & Web-based Applications
- SQL Query Writing (basic)
- Good Understanding of the SDLC
- Proven success in performing testing within project timeline
- and/or resource constraints.
- Experience in Status Reporting, Client Communications
- Varied Business experience with both Private and Public Sectors
- Strong analytical skills & attention to detail
- Strong verbal/written communication skills and well organized
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
Assets:
- Exposure to Use Cases
- Automated Test Case Writing
- Experience with Load, Performance and Stress Testing
- Experience with Test Director and Jira
- Comfortable communicating with External 3rd Party Developers if necessary
To Apply:
Although this position is currently not open, we are accepting resumes for future opportunities. Please email resume and cover letter to: careers@maketechnologies.com. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
We appreciate your interest in the opportunities with MAKE Technologies, currently we are conducting our recruitment efforts in our geographic area.
Website: www.maketechnologies.com
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver complex Java enterprise software products on schedule
- Communicate and work effectively with project managers, business analysts, developers, QA, and clients
- Work with client technical teams to determine the structure and function of the legacy system
Required Qualifications/Skills
- Five plus (5+) years of experience, successfully developing and supporting Java enterprise applications
- Experience with full lifecycle development projects
- Experience with Java EE, Java Server Faces, and Ajax
- Ability to design application components based on Java EE architecture and design patterns
- Familiarity with emerging architectural solutions and technologies
- Familiarity with relational database principles and with Object Relational Mapping (Hibernate or Toplink implementations)
- Superior problem solving skills
- Good organizational, interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, team and deliverables-oriented work environment
- Sensitivity to deadlines and to the impact work has on an overall project schedule
- Comfortable seeking peer and supervisory guidance on complex application challenges
- A Computer Science Degree from a recognized university
- Strong communications skills both written and verbal
- Experience with a wide range of technologies including: JBoss, OC4J, MySQL, Oracle, GOF and J2EE design patterns, SOA, EJB, JSP, JSTL, JMS, Hibernate, Toplink, XML, XSLT and UML.
Assets
- Experience with legacy systems (e.g. COBOL, RPG, Natural)
- Experience working with clients in a consulting environment
To Apply:
Although this position is currently not open, we are accepting resumes for future opportunities. Please email resume and cover letter to: careers@maketechnologies.com. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
We appreciate your interest in the opportunities with MAKE Technologies, currently we are conducting our recruitment efforts in our geographic area.
Vancouver, BC, June 5, 2009 — MAKE Technologies, the leading provider of legacy transformation solutions, today announced that it has added a new and significant customer win in the first quarter of 2009.
The customer is an international provider and leader in telecommunications software. “Like many of our projects,” said Jean-Guy Faubert, EVP of Global Sales at MAKE Technologies, “We have agreed to keep the details of this project confidential. The modernization of this key product will provide significant competitive advantage. Our customer will announce their new product closer to its launch date”
MAKE’s TLM modernization platform was chosen, along with IBM’s service delivery capability, to modernize a large and critical legacy system.
“We are pleased to be chosen for this large and critical project,” said Bill Bergen, CEO of MAKE. “MAKE continues to gain momentum in legacy transformations because more and more companies are recognizing the importance of replacing their legacy applications with modern systems.”
With TLM’s proven ability to reduce the cost, risk and time required to modernize these systems, CFOs and IT decision-makers at some of the world’s largest and most admired companies are increasingly turning to MAKE to assist them with their legacy system life-cycle needs.
MAKE continues to increase its agility in the renewal of aging systems, by mining the legacy assets, and repurposing them, into .NET, JAVA, and even mapping them to COTS solutions.
About MAKE
MAKE Technologies provides the leading solution to extract, analyze & transform all three aspects of enterprise applications: business processes, code and data. MAKE’s modernization platform, TLM, helps their global customer base reduce the cost & risk required to maintain and retire their mission critical systems. Since 2000, TLM, has revolutionized the way these organizations modernize their legacy systems into realtime, distributed and service oriented applications that integrate COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) applications, enterprise middleware, SOA, Java and .NET. For more information about the company or its products, go to www.maketechnologies.com
About IBM
For more information visit www.ibm.com.
Media Contact
Junco Kumon
MAKE Technologies Inc.
#1790 – 1188 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6E 4A2
Telephone:
604-738-4999 x155 office
604-738-4979 fax
email: jkumon at maketechnologies.com
Vancouver, BC, June 3, 2009 — MAKE Technologies, a leader in application extraction, analysis and transformation, today announced it had been ranked 59th on the 21st annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine.
Since launching its modernization platform, TLM, MAKE achieved a five-year growth rate of 1,400%.
“I am pleased at the progress we’ve made,” said Bill Bergen, CEO. “MAKE has just started to become the recognized leader in legacy modernization. Even in this harsh economic climate, our pipeline has never been stronger.”
Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 100 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies. Published in the June issue of PROFIT and online at PROFIT100.com, the PROFIT 100 is Canada’s largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.
“The PROFIT 100 are an inspiration to entrepreneurs at all stages of growth, from startup to major corporation,” says Ian Portsmouth, editor of PROFIT. “Their business practices and product innovations are exemplary of how businesses can succeed in uncertain times.”
About PROFIT Magazine:
PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success, is Canada’s preeminent publication dedicated to the management issues and opportunities facing small and mid-sized businesses. For more than 25 years, Canadian entrepreneurs across a vast array of economic sectors have remained loyal to PROFIT because it’s a timely and reliable source of actionable information that helps them increase their revenues, boost their profitability and get the recognition they deserve for generating positive economic and social change. Published six times a year by Rogers Publishing Ltd., PROFIT is distributed almost exclusively to the chief executives of companies with 5 to 250 employees and annual revenue of $1 million to $25 million, reaching 306,000 readers across Canada. Visit PROFIT online at http://www.PROFITmagazine.ca.
About MAKE:
MAKE Technologies provides the leading solution to extract, analyze & transform all three aspects of enterprise applications: business processes, code and data. MAKE’s modernization platform, TLM, helps their global customer base reduce the cost & risk required to maintain and retire their mission critical systems. Since 2000, TLM, has revolutionized the way these organizations modernize their legacy systems into realtime, distributed and service oriented applications that integrate COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) applications, enterprise middleware, SOA, Java and .NET. For more information about the company or its products, go to www.maketechnologies.com
Contact Information
Junco Kumon
MAKE Technologies Inc.
#1790 – 1188 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6E 4A2
Telephone:
604-738-4999 x155 office
604-738-4979 fax
email: jkumon at maketechnologies.com
