Archive for July, 2009
Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 27, 2009 — MAKE Technologies, a leader in legacy application extraction, analysis and transformation, today announced that it has secured a new strategic consulting contract alongside one of the world’s leaders in legacy modernization.
The Client is a large public sector based in Tokyo. “We are pleased to have been chosen for this strategic project,” said Jean-Guy Faubert, EVP of Global Sales at MAKE Technologies. “This represents the first win outside North America for MAKE.”
With MAKE’s considerable experience in legacy modernization planning and implementions, the client is seeking options from MAKE on best practices. The engagement will leverage MAKE’s unique methodology TLM, more recognized in the industry as Transformational Legacy Modernization.
This will mark the start of several other key initiatives over the next few years.
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
Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 24, 2009 – MAKE Technologies Announces that Rich Cronheim has joined MAKE as Vice President U.S. East. He will be working out of our North Carolina Office.
The demand for MAKE’s proven legacy modernization solution necessitates a stronger U.S. presence, which Rich brings. Rich has over 15 years of experience in the legacy modernization space with Seer Technologies, IBM and as a co-founder of Relativity Technologies. Rich’s broad leadership experience in public and private companies are a tremendous asset to our Company.
He can be reached via email at Rich.Cronheim at maketechnologies.com or by phone at (919) 931-9992.
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
Your application portfolio is a critical business asset, but your operational costs are increasing as a percentage of total IT budget each year. Current data shows that >80% of IT budgets are allocated to operations/maintenance of existing applications. But in the current economy, application owners/managers are under increasing pressure to improve service levels despite decreasing budgets. The only way to solve this dilemma is to significantly reduce your application maintenance costs quickly.
MAKE Technologies Inc., a leader in legacy application extraction, analysis and transformation launched TLM:CORE, an integrated Web 2.0 platform designed to reduce maintenance costs by providing an online repository of business processes, annotated code, data structures, and their interrelationships, that can be quickly interrogated by maintenance staff. TLM:CORE provides the application intelligence necessary to develop focused and cost-effective strategies for defect resolution and the delivery of new business value. It works with any mix of languages, on any mix of platforms, to turn poorly understood/documented applications into transparent, visible and connected assets.
Please join MAKE Technologies for this webinar to learn how to reduce your TCO in 7 weeks.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
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1:30 – 2:30 pm, Pacific Time (San Francisco, GMT -07:00) |
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
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.
The Opportunity:
As a Business Analyst at MAKE we are seeking someone who is ready to join a team where the BA function is a critical part of the entire modernization process. Candidates should have a deep down conviction that business analysis, when done right, is key to making complex systems work well.
Skills Required:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Create/facilitate processes to identify/confirm business requirements & priorities
- Have experience documenting/modeling both current and future business requirements;
- Translate business requirements into technical requirements;
- Feel empathy for clients who suffer with complex systems that do not meet their needs;
- Want to simplify & streamline overly-complex and inefficient processes;
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- Understand the difference between needs & wants, and know how to differentiate between the two;
- Believe that most software fails because the KISS principle is ignored;
- Know that communication and people skills, as well as the ability to develop trust and confidence with the client, is the key to a successful project;
- Understand that organizational acceptance & behavior determines project success and failure; and
- Willing to travel to client sites, as needed.
Requirements:
- Work well with clients, their stakeholders and end users
- Proven ability to be a “translator” between technology and business processes using plain English (samples may be requested)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience within a Software Project Team (architects, developers, testers,)
- Experience using a methodology like RUP/UML, Agile or XP
- Experience with Software Project Estimation
- Experience in writing requirements, use cases and design specifications
- Experience designing web pages (forms)
Assets:
- Prior experience with J2EE projects
- Business Analysis experience in a multi-million dollar project
- Domain and Data Modeling
- Programming experience in a language other than JAVA
- Experience in project management
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.
Website: www.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.
The Opportunity:
You are skilled in the art of communication, both verbal and written, able to convey ideas with clarity and enthusiasm. You have a high level of business acumen, strong technical knowledge and boundless energy. In particular, you have the ability to quickly size up the potential for MAKE to solve customer challenges.
You will pitch the benefits of our advanced modernization technology to senior people in Fortune 1000, Government and software development firms, helping them to understand that there is a better way out of the legacy applications trap. Your personal style and wisdom will help convince them to investigate more deeply how our technology can provide the answers they are looking for.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years of business-to-business solution sales experience
- Experience in new business development
- Relationship management responsibilities with both partners and customers
- Experience with event coordination and assisting in marketing campaigns and trade shows
- Experience with customer service/satisfaction roles supporting Account Executives in both the pre- and post-sale cycle
- Excellent time management skills
- Superior written, presentation and verbal communications skills
- Thrive on building and managing relationships
- Efficiency using the Internet, e-mail, and desktop applications
- Can demonstrate a track record of success in meeting targets and quotas
- Someone who has a passion for technology and the willingness to express it
- Degree or Diploma in Business is preferred
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.
Website: www.maketechnologies.com
Let’s face it – it’s costly to maintain legacy systems and it’s costly to modernize one – more costly than we care to admit – and because of this, organization fail to modernize and flail on their way towards modernization.
Organizations struggle with this dilemma because as Ori and Rom Brafman note in their Bestseller “Sway”, “we play not to lose” and hence we create scenarios where a “$20 bill costs us $240.”
In this scenario, an auction for a $20 bill is created and the rules are:
- Bids are made in increments of $1
- The winner of the auction wins the $20
- The runner up must honor his or her bid and will receive nothing in return
Whether this auction is run with Harvard MBA students or seasoned executives the outcome is always the same – the bidding starts fast and furious, hits about $12 – $16, everyone except the two highest bidders drops out and the bidding continues to climb up and up well beyond the $20 mark.
In others words, the deeper the hole, the more they continue to dig.
Playing not to lose, in the modernization dilemma, looks like staying on the same system and investing more, more and still more just to stay afloat. It can rear its ugly head through misguided attempts as failed Greenfield implementations followed by direct code conversions, where modernization it still not yet achieved.
In both cases, organizations cling to “playing not to lose” and the costs go up and up.
So how do we change this? Well we start by “playing to win” and playing to win means admitting that there is a problem and the first problem that we need to admit is that in modernization, all too often we “play not to lose”.
- Wendy Van Donkelaar
Your application portfolio is a critical business asset, but your operational costs are increasing as a percentage of total IT budget each year. Current data shows that >80% of IT budgets are allocated to operations/maintenance of existing applications. But in the current economy, application owners/managers are under increasing pressure to improve service levels despite decreasing budgets. The only way to solve this dilemma is to significantly reduce your application maintenance costs quickly.
MAKE Technologies Inc., a leader in legacy application extraction, analysis and transformation launched TLM:CORE, an integrated Web 2.0 platform designed to reduce maintenance costs by providing an online repository of business processes, annotated code, data structures, and their interrelationships, that can be quickly interrogated by maintenance staff. TLM:CORE provides the application intelligence necessary to develop focused and cost-effective strategies for defect resolution and the delivery of new business value. It works with any mix of languages, on any mix of platforms, to turn poorly understood/documented applications into transparent, visible and connected assets.
Please join MAKE Technologies for this webinar to learn how to reduce your TCO in 7 weeks.
Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm, Pacific Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
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
