Ottertech Ltd.
Mainframe/Corporate Services
Ottertech Onsite/Offsite Professional Support:
Basic to Expert IBM Technical and Application
support at all levels from punching code through systems architecture design
and on to large scale project management. We can put a suitably skilled person
onsite, or work remotely or offsite to meet your every requirement.
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us for samples and quotes
Ottertech Author:
We are happy to quote for all your Technical
Author or Documentation needs, delivering all levels of end user or day to day
'how to' documentation in a variety of packages.
Delivery formats can be straightforward as text or
Word documents, or as Abobe PDF format, IBM Bookmanager, integrated HTML frames
or dedicated CD-Roms, all fully customised to meet your own standards, or
defaulting to ISO900x acceptable standards.
We can supply an author onsite, working remotely
or offsite, with whatever checkpointing and review milestones you feel
appropriate.
Pricing for Ottertech Author service can be per hour,
per day/week/month or on a very competitive 'fixed deliverables' basis.
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us for samples and quotes
Ottertech Rexxpert
REXX is probably the best multi-platform language
available to you today. If you are running any IBM SAA compliant operating
system or environment, you already have it in place.. no licensing costs, no
third party support issues..
A language with the flexibility to handle file
manipulation, statistical analysis or basic report production and still drive
interactive user panels such as ISPF.
REXX is an integral part of OS/390, VM, VSE, CICS,
OS/2 and is now available for AIX as well as the newest offering NetRexx which
allows for development of fully compliant Java executables "with only 30%
of the effort"..
Ottertech are proud to be Rexx experts and are
happy to offer a full range of Rexx related services, including bespoke
training, consultancy and ongoing support.
We will put an expert onsite to evaluate what Rexx
could do for you, and then deliver specialist training to let your existing
staff take it from there...
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us for samples and quotes
More Rexx info: rexx.htm
Ottertech Raider
There is a new role in IT these days... forget
Systems Analysts and Systems Architects, sometimes when you really need
to get the job done, what you need is a Systems Archaeologist... Sounds
facetious? Think again...
The Systems Archaeologist is the person who can
come in and figure out from scratch what the last ten generations of staff have
done to the originally installed systems..
A good Systems Archaeologist starts from the basic
premises of archaeology:
Verbal histories… "Old George always told us
to do it this way..."
Ritual Superstition… " We're not sure why
that sort step is in there but the reports vanish if you take it out"
Poorly preserved artefacts… "Well, we have
half the original spec as a DCF file, and there is a later version but that's a
password protected WP3 file..."
But an Ottertech Raider goes further, being able
to use proprietary software such as Viasoft, or to develop bespoke tailored
Rexx routines as an Ottertech Rexxpert that will interrogate the current
systems environment to produce up to the minute details of how your systems
hang together.. this can then feed into Ottertech Author, which delivers accurate
and precisely tailored documentation..
The Ottertech Raider service is an essential
integrated solution to help you get full benefits from the mysterious legacies
lurking in your systems…
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us for samples and quotes