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Alchemy Solutions Announces New Partner Program, With Collaboration, Resources to Ensure Customer Success

Broad Range of Global Solutions Providers Extend Alchemy Solutions Legacy Modernization Software, Services

BEND, Oregon – September 21, 2009 – Alchemy Solutions, Inc. (www.alchemysolutions.com), provider of legacy modernization solutions for Microsoft’s .NET Framework, today announced an enhanced partner program and a new strategic relationship with 5280 Solutions. The four-level program serves to cultivate valuable relationships with companies that offer a broad spectrum of solutions and services that pair well with Alchemy Solutions’ powerful legacy modernization and migration offerings.

The market-leading software from Alchemy Solutions preserves and extends customers’ investments in their legacy mainframe systems by using innovative techniques during the migration process to prepare the applications to take full advantage of the .NET environment. 5280 Solutions (www.5280solutions.com), an award-winning provider of information technology products, provides a Legacy Modernization Process that brings mainframe systems to .NET, using the Alchemy Solutions NetCOBOL compiler and NeoSuite of tools to assist with the move.

The partners have access to a host of sales, marketing and training resources needed to successfully deliver Alchemy Solutions products in any corner of the world. They fit into four general categories:

  • System Integrators: consulting firms and service providers that operate as global or regional Systems Integrators, Solution Providers, VARs;

  • Distributors (Value Added Distributors: VADs): distributors who have specialized local knowledge, serve as channel aggregators, represent Alchemy in a geography, and provide pre and post sales support across the value chain in combination with their ecosystem of partners;

  • Strategic Alliances: global companies that support the execution of Alchemy’s and the Alliance partners' strategic initiatives;

  • Technology Partners: Technology partners provide additional components of the Mainframe Migration process complementary to Alchemy’s technology offering (tool vendors, mainframe ISVs).

“The Alchemy Solutions partner program provides us with the tools and access we need to ensure that migrating translates to a solid business advantage,” said Dominic Rotondi, executive vice president of 5280 Solutions, a new Value Added Distributor. A provider of education lending software, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Intelligence solutions, 5280 Solutions used NeoSuite to migrate its own education lending applications to Microsoft technology. Leveraging that experience, 5280 Solutions is now reselling NeoSuite and NetCOBOL to their contacts in the financial industry that share the need to migrate to .NET.

"Whether it’s our own system or that of a client, running systems on the most appropriate platform is critical. The partnership program is proof positive that Alchemy Solutions shares our commitment to customer success,” Rotondi added.

As a critical part of Alchemy Solutions’ business and product strategies, the partnership program is designed to ensure that customers all over the globe can flexibly and cost-effectively accomplish any mainframe modernization or migration initiative. “Whether it’s selling the Neo family of solutions or Fujitsu NetCOBOL, our main objective is to help our partners expand their core capabilities and maximize revenue potential,” said Ron Langer, vice president of sales and general manager for Alchemy Solutions. “Migrating legacy systems significantly decreases a company’s cost of maintaining mainframe technologies. Using Alchemy Solutions’ tools and 5280 Solutions’ proven legacy modernization process, companies can experience a full return on investment in as little as six months. We look forward to working with 5280 Solutions in an effort to help more enterprises achieve this type of return.”

With partners located in Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Australia, and the Netherlands, Alchemy’s network reaches around the world. Alchemy Solutions has already forged a strong relationship with Microsoft starting with an early recognition of the power of the .NET vision and technology. As a founding member of the Mainframe Migration Alliance, Alchemy Solutions works closely with Microsoft to help the two companies’ mutual customers migrate their systems successfully to the Windows Server environment.