When Service Is More Than Just A Word – Excelsior’s Individual Solutions for Special Business Are Leading Customers To Success
If software is an essential part of your product or solution which has been on the market for 10 or more years, you are surely familiar with the challenges analytic ag from Zuerich, Switzerland faced in late 1990s...
Novosibirsk – Zuerich (PRWEB) August 11, 2005 -- If software is an essential
part of your product or solution which has been on the market for 10 or more
years, you are surely familiar with the challenges analytic ag from Zuerich,
Switzerland faced in late 1990s. Tool vendors no longer exist or do not support
their old products, customers want modern graphical interface and
interoperability with the latest third-party software, staffing becomes a
problem because good, ambitious programmers want to use the latest and greatest
technologies, and so on. You begin to think that the only way to catch up with
the younger competition is to throw away the old code and hire some young talent
to write new from scratch. Fortunately, there exist also less expensive,
evolutionary approaches.
Excelsior, LLC from Novosibirsk, Russia, known
mostly for its Java Virtual Machine product called Excelsior JET, also acts as a
provider of individual software solutions for special business. Today, analytic
ag is one of Excelsior’s satisfied customers.
“Analytic ag is a software
developer, which started as a data processing center 33 years ago,” said Oskar
Herber, founder and Managing Director of analytic ag. “Today we are selling a
software suite that automates production of various documentation used in the
window manufacturing process. We have hundreds of users, window manufacturers as
well as trading companies, in Switzerland and also in some other European
countries.”
In analytic’s solution, the whole variety of window types,
parts, methods of construction, price calculation and manufacturing documents
circulation is hold in original data bases and is maintained with hundreds of
programs implementing the industrial know-how. The software has a long history.
The original version was developed for the first personal computers and has
survived several migrations from one platform to another.
The cooperation
with Excelsior started in May 2000, when analytic intended to make another
modernization of the software. Driven by customer demand, analytic needed to
port their programs from MS-DOS to Windows and design more usable graphic
interfaces. The then current version of the software was written in TopSpeed
Modula-2, so Excelsior has offered its ISO Modula-2 compiler called XDS as a
destination for migration.
“During the past five years, we have migrated
analytic’s TopSpeed/MS-DOS Modula-2 code comprising the core business logic to
XDS Modula-2 on the Windows 2000/XP platform and integrated it with the new
graphical user interface made in Delphi, which greatly improved usability,” said
Mr. Vitaly Tsikoza, Project Manager for Excelsior. “We have also introduced
modern technologies into software organization, maintenance, and deployment.”
The relationship between the two companies has proved so successful that
Excelsior is now responsible for the improvement and further development of
analytic’s main applications.
Mr. Herber added: “We were very happy with
the quick and professional services of Excelsior all the time. We recommend
using them for development as well as for special solutions in the Modula-2
environment. An extra plus in working with Excelsior is the fact that there are
never any problems with the compiler or the operating system using programs
developed by Excelsior. They are so much familiar with their own system, that no
problems can come through to us at all.”
About Excelsior
Excelsior
provides advanced software development solutions such as optimizing compilers,
source to source translators, program debug, analysis and reengineering tools,
and related services including application porting and migration since 1999.
Privately held, Excelsior, LLC, has its headquarters in Novosibirsk,
Russia.
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