Alchemy Solutions Boosts Sales Team, Adding Mainframe Veterans With First-hand Experience in Using, Installing Enterprise Software
New Team of Mainframe Solutions Experts Proves the Adage: “It takes one to know one”
BEND, Oregon, August 24, 2009 – Alchemy Solutions, Inc. (www.alchemysolutions.com), provider of legacy modernization solutions, today announced an expansion of the company’s sales team with a cadre of former mainframe users and IT executives. Over their long and varied careers in IT, the new Mainframe Solutions Experts have evaluated and installed enterprise software from several vendors, gaining insights in what it takes to succeed.
As companies continue to seek ways to rein-in the cost of managing and running mainframe-based legacy systems, they are increasingly adapting these systems for the Windows environment. Alchemy Solutions’ market-leading software preserves and extends an organization’s investment in its legacy mainframe systems by modernizing applications during the process of being migrated to the Microsoft .NET environment.
“As they modernize their legacy systems, today’s IT executives are becoming well-schooled in the advantages of the Microsoft .NET environment,” said Ron Langer, general manager for Alchemy Solutions. “While CIOs are grounded in large, often centralized systems, few of today’s software vendors are equipped to communicate about mainframe concepts, and in language they commonly use. I am a firm believer that ‘it takes one to know one,’ meaning that this veteran team has been through the same mainframe challenges that our customers have experienced. This team is the best equipped to help IT shops navigate through the migration challenges, and they represent another value that Alchemy brings to our customers.”
The Alchemy Solutions product suite – NeoKicks, NeoBatch, NeoSort, NeoData and NeoServices – integrates with the NetCOBOL for .NET compiler to provide modernization options for bringing mission critical CICS and batch applications to the.NET environment. Alchemy Solutions is the distributor (outside Japan) of the Fujitsu NetCOBOL family of runtime-free COBOL compilers. Worldwide there are over half a million mission-critical, production applications that rely on NetCOBOL technology and runtime support.
NetCOBOL for .NET was the first COBOL compiler producing native .NET MSIL code, and it continues to lead the COBOL world in .NET-supported features and utilities. Following this achievement, Alchemy Solutions introduced NeoKicks, NeoBatch, NeoData and NeoServices to offer cost-saving solutions to migrate mainframe applications to .NET.
“Given Alchemy Solutions’ history of developing great tools for great developers, and now with our expanded sales force of Mainframe Solutions Experts, Alchemy is able to steer mainframe users to the best solutions available and provide a faster time to solution,” said Langer.
