Product and Service Offerings
EBE Computing develops sophisticated software tools with product and service offerings directed at three areas: a) legacy-to-mainstream system migration; b) single-view-enterprise manageability in a multi-platform computing environment; c) mainframe consulting
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Single-enterprise-view Manageability |
General I.T. Consulting |
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| Sophisticated OpenSCL middleware transfers mainframe functionality to server or desktop |
Allows management of a multi-platform environment from a single-source-view of the enterprise |
General I.T. consulting and maintenance for mainframe systems |
Value of offerings
A number of large and mid-sized organisations continue to use mainframes for business critical computing needs. There is economic and technological value in moving to more mainstream computing platforms. Similarly, organisations that use multiple computing platforms can immediately realise immediate savings through single-view-enterprise manageability
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Impetus for Single-View-Enterprise Manageability |
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- Allows substantial savings on hardware as typical mainframe leases can cost between R5-50 million per year
- Cuts bandwidth costs for terminal-to-mainframe access
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Facilitates access to newer, more innovative, and faster server and desktop technology
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Removes reliance on a dwindling base of mainframe support professionals
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- Obviates the need to maintain fully topped maintenance teams for every computing platform
- Allows the support professionals a degree of separation from the intricate workings of each platform
- Facilitates greater efficiency in management of computing resources and deployment of enterprise computing resources
- Addresses the skill gap issue with respect to older platforms
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Value proposition
The EBE Computing difference stems from the company’s technological innovation, its competitively priced offering, and the focus on delivering an (operationally and organisationally) non-disruptive solution. The company supports a unique proposition of “marrying the mainframe to the server/desktop”
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- State-of-the-art product with acceptance in several international markets
- Underpinned by sophisticated compilers and interpreters
- Supported as a thin-client on the Windows family of operating systems and on the server-side on Linux and AIX
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- Lowest price option when compared to other ways of migrating from mainframes
- South African and Indian development base translates into a cost advantage in most markets
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- EBE Computing solution is usually quick to implement and does not entail any organisational or operational “re-engineering”
- Premised on the notion of “business-as-usual” for the client organisation with no disruption to continuing operations
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OpenSCL
OpenSCL, now in its fourth major, iteration (version 4.3) is the flagship product of the company. First released in 1996, the product conforms to open systems standards. Rich in functionality, OpenSCL is now used at over nineteen (19) sites worldwide
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Mainframe Migration Advantages
- Optimises mainframe code to native machine environment
- Comes with a fully functional editor -- including features such as syntax colouring, advance search and replace, bookmarking, case migration, automatic brace matching
- Includes ready-to-use templates with auto-complete feature
- Contains full context-sensitive help features
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Multi-platform Maintenance Features
- Optimises hardware resources
- Allows for seamless scalability
- Can be set-up as start-up environment on any client machine with added security features
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