Corporate Profiles Vendor Listing

Buyers Guide.

• 12/01/1998

Accelr8 Technology Corp. is a solutions provider of migration tools and services for modernizing Compaq (formerly Digital Equipment Corp.) VMS environments to open systems. Accelr8 has established itself as the preferred vendor for midrange Year 2000 tools for UNIX, NT and VMS. Accelr8's software products and services are recognized for aiding customers in applying a methodology that enables enterprises to succeed in integrating legacy systems with state of the art solutions. In response to the fast-approaching millennium, Accelr8 has introduced new user-based pricing, together with new packaging options, making it easier for customers to purchase the most popular tool combinations.

Accelr8 Technology Corp.
303 E. 17^th Ave., Suite 108
Denver, CO 80203
T: (303) 863-8088
F: (303) 863-1218
URL: www.accelr8.com

Diversified Software Systems, Inc. is committed to producing products and services that address the continuity of operations. Continuity of operations means that production errors are minimized; daily operations are effectively managed; recovery time due to production failures is minimized; and modified applications are returned to service quickly and effectively. For over 20 years, Diversified Software has provided enterprise data centers with solutions to automate the mission-critical production processes. Every product and service helps clients achieve an error-free production environment and provide data center personnel with critical information about production applications.

Diversified Software Systems, Inc.
18635 Sutter Blvd.
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
T: (408) 778-9914
F: (408) 776-0382
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.diversifiedsoftware.com

Fundamental Software's FLEX-ES transforms any Intel-based server running UNIX into a binary compatible mainframe. It provides a full-featured multiprocessor mainframe CPU, along with a range of emulated devices and the capability to attach to physical computer peripherals. From the viewpoint of the mainframe software, FLEX-ES is logically indistinguishable from a traditional hardware mainframe. There are no compatibility issues. All current and most existing IBM operating systems (OS/390, VM/ESA, VSE/ESA, etc.) run "on top" of FLEX-ES.

Fundamental Software, Inc.
48025 Fremont Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538
T: (510) 438-9229, x154; (510) 438-9229, x152
F: (510) 438-9832
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.funsoft.com

Hummingbird HostExplorer is designed to link to business-critical mainframe information from the enterprise desktop. Noted for its performance abilities and low resource usage, HostExplorer enables users to connect to enterprise hosts, including IBM mainframe, AS/400 and UNIX systems, and enables users to run multiple host sessions alongside other desktop applications without hardware upgrades. HostExplorer, with its direct connectivity from Windows Explorer for all TN3270, TN3270E, TN5250 and Telnet terminal types, runs on all Windows platforms.

Hummingbird Communications, Ltd.
1 Sparks Avenue
North York, Ontario
Canada M2H2W1
T: (416) 496-2200
F: (416) 496-2207
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.hummingbird.com

PLATINUM technology, inc. provides software products and consulting services that help you manage and improve your IT infrastructure - from database and systems management to data warehousing, decision support, application lifecycle and Year 2000. As a result, you can minimize risk, improve service levels and leverage information for better decision making. PLATINUM is a global company with the technical expertise, industry experience and dedication to help you overcome your most difficult IT infrastructure challenges.

Platinum technology, inc.
1815 South Meyers Road
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181-5241
T: (800) 442-6861 or (630) 620-5000
F: (630) 691-0718
URL: www.platinum.com

Chameleon HostLink provides the system administrator with the tools to supply and to centrally manage customized Web-based IBM mainframe and AS/400 access to your end users over an Intranet or the Internet. The ActiveX controls support a variety of popular object-oriented development formats, such as Visual Basic, Oracle Forms, PowerBuilder and Delphi. For network users, the familiar Web browser interface eliminates the learning curve and, thus, lowers the cost of ownership. Chameleon HostLink supports all three Windows platforms on a single CD with a consistent user interface. Chameleon HostLink includes a powerful new feature called SupportNow, which allows you to get real-time hands-on help over the Internet from NetManage's team of support professionals.

NetManage
10725 North De Anza Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014-2030
T: (408) 973-7171
F: (408) 257-6405
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.netmanage.com

SEGUS is a subsidiary of the Software Engineering GmbH group (not associated with Software Engineering America), which has over 150 employees and more than 700 MVS customers throughout the world. SEGUS distributes the products of the German parent company, as well as those of HORIZONT GmbH, also based in Germany. Their product line concentrates on IBM's OPC (TME10) in order to reduce the tedious time-consuming tasks in data centers, so that qualified technicians can concentrate on the "bigger issues" at hand. Products, such as OPC/BatchAD give OPC users the capability to carry out mass updates to the Application Database in batch mode.

SEGUS, Inc.
1851 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, VA 20191-4345
T: (800) 327-9650
F: (703) 715-8428
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.segus.com

SERENA Software is a global software and services company dedicated to providing Software Change Management solutions for the enterprise. SERENA provides a full suite of SCM products and services for managing and controlling change throughout the software application life cycle. SERENA's products and solutions are used today in more than 2000 data centers worldwide. SERENA's FULL.CYCLE Enterprise suite of products automates, controls and improves management throughout the software application life cycle. FULL.CYCLE solutions are designed to reduce IT infrastructure costs and improve programmer productivity by helping IT organizations manage change from the initial development of applications through coding, testing and post-development recovery support and maintenance.

SERENA Software
500 Airport Blvd., 2nd Floor
Burlingame, CA 94010-1904
T: (650) 696-1800
F: (650) 696-1776
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.serena.com

The Vital Signs performance monitors for VSE, VM, CICS, and VTAM provide real-time and historical reports and graphs. Give your ex-3270 users their familiar legacy applications with HOBLink terminal emulation for 32-bit PCs. IPCP Plus is a menu-driven processor that automatically opens, closes, allocates, and de-allocates files from batch on MVS and VSE systems. With Multiterm, get all your files, disk volumes, and programs on one integrative management program with data-adaptive power to copy, duplicate, print, and restore. Control and automate tedious report management with PowerTools Plus. OHF lets users on your system write and edit their own CICS manuals and pop-up windows. SYSLOAD can handle the performance of any combination of UNIX , Windows NT, NetWare, AS400 and Oracle.

Software Diversified Services
5155 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55421
T: (800) 551-9290
F: (612) 572-1721
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.sdsusa.com

SOLVE:Netmaster for TCP/IP ensures reliable access to OS/390 applications through proactive monitoring, diagnosis, and performance management of I*net devices, events and sessions. SOLVE:Netmaster for TCP/IP can stand alone or work in concert with Sterling Software's full line of SOLVE networked systems management products to ensure the availability of business-critical applications across the enterprise. As an OS/390-based network management tool, SOLVE:Netmaster for TCP/IP was introduced in 1996 to bring mainframe-level reliability and the cost savings associated with centralized management to mixed SNA and TCP/IP environments.

Sterling Software, Inc.
1800 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, VA 20191-9906
T: (800) 247-5163, (703) 264-8000
E-mail:[email protected]
URL: www.solve.sterling.com

The Workstation Group, Ltd.

The Workstation Group, Ltd., established in 1989, has helped over 1,000 major companies migrate applications from IBM mainframes to UNIX systems. Our products assist in all phases of the platform migration. uni-SPF, uni-REXX and uni-XEDIT save time and money, leveraging the "human capital" in existing systems, by providing mainframe-style software to the workstation and server market. netCONVERT is a data translation aid, designed specifically for mainframe to UNIX /NT conversion. TMS/ix and CoSORT are high-performance, mainframe-style utilities to help build a production environment on UNIX platforms.

The Workstation Group, Ltd.
1900 N. Roselle Rd., Ste. 408
Schaumburg, IL 60195
T: (847) 781-6948
F: (847) 781-8573
URL: www.wrkgrp.com

Vanguard Integrity Professionals

Founded in 1986 as a mainframe security-consulting firm, Vanguard Integrity Professionals continues to be a pioneer in IBM mainframe security. The Vanguard RACF Administrator (VRA) was the first administrative tool for IBM's RACF mainframe security system, which IBM now calls the OS/390 Security Server. VAR represented a new concept for security administration by helping to move the mainframe security world from individual RACF line commands to a new level of automation for administration and analysis of security tasks. According to the Gartner Group, Vanguard holds an 80 percent market share for IBM Security Server administration tools.

Vanguard Integrity Professionals
180 South Anita Drive
Orange, CA 92868
T: (714) 939-0377
F: (714) 939-0273
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: www.viplink.com