Enterprise Modernization Customer Quotes

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Here's what our customers are saying about Enterprise Modernization products...

Amica Mutual Insurance Company
"We are very happy with our selection of the HATS solution. The revitalization of our mission-critical underwriting legacy system was accomplished in record time, delivering a quick return on investment. As always, IBM's product support groups were key to the successful deployment of our Host Publisher-based system."
- Peter Moreau, Assistant Vice President, Amica

Applied Solutions Group
"IBM has continued to make HATS a premier end user and developer tool to aid in extending the life of legacy applications. The enhanced user interface in HATS version 7 makes it easy for the novice and the professional developer to create state-of-the-art web and rich client interfaces for existing legacy applications. A novice user can easily create a web interface to a legacy application within hours rather than days or months. The professional developer can use HATS to add business rules to a legacy application without modifying the underlying legacy code. HATS version 7 is great example of IBM's dedication to continued process improvement."
- Joe Hrach, Owner, Applied Solutions Group LLC

ARS Computer and Consulting GmbH
"Offering access to legacy host applications in a modern world with internet connection from everywhere can be a technical and security nightmare. With HATS it is quite simple to rejuvenate the screens and provide a secure access via http and https. Especially the capability to generate web services easily from host transactions allows us to integrate legacy applications into a services based world of SOA. The new HATS rich client feature introduced in HATS V7 now matches perfectly into the IBM Lotus client strategy."
- Roland Schock, CEO, ARS Computer and Consulting GmbH

ATPCO
"I am very pleased with the enhancements in HATS especially in the area of new Widgets and the enhancements to the Macro debugging features. Very impressive advances in the HATS tool as it continues to mature."
- Steve Rogers, IT Consultant, Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO)

B & C Management Systems, Inc.
"As an ISV, we are modernizing our own application for the retail industry "4Sight Retail Management System" and providing modernization services to our clients who may or may not have access to all of the "source code" for their applications. Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) V7 and the WebFacing Deployment Tool with HATS Technology (WDHT) allow us to develop a hybrid system consisting of our "4Sight" application, client in-house applications and applications provided by other vendors. With the new HATS WebFacing Interoperability, we can use WebFacing where needed as well as leverage HATS' ability to easily add widgets, such as pop-up calendars, and provide choices for option fields in subfiles. Merging these two technologies seamlessly gives us the flexibility to choose the best options to create UIs that meet our customers' requirements."
- Denis Blyth, Vice-President, B & C Management Systems, Inc.

BMU
"Also in Version 6.0 HATS is the best tool for the design/create of new web applications to present a new frontend of legacy applicatons... The integration possibility into a portal particularly makes the construction of complex eBusiness applications possible."
- Johannes Bley, Project Manager, BMU

Centare
"I am impressed by the wizards that walk through creation of the various transformations. I also like the template creation wizard. Our customers are very impressed by this."
- Edward Chaltry, Partner/CTO, Centare Group, Ltd.

CompEx Software GmbH
"After comparing quite a few solutions to move our legacy ERP-Retail-Solution to a graphical interface, we've decided to use HATS with Webfacing technology. We transfered our first customer to a web based technology within very short time. We are very satisfied with scalability and functionality within HATS - giving us the capabilities to improve our application."
- Ralf Wintrich - managing director, CompEx Software GmbH

Excelligent N.V
"Being a Business Partner, HATS brings a lot of opportunities to our customers! The new interoperability feature of WDHT 7.0 enables our webfaced product suite to cooperate with system functions and to integrate seamlessly with the non webfaced applications of our customers. Moreover, we reused the same templates and cascading style sheets and we defined only ONE SET of transformation rules, so the graphical user interface looks and acts the same. The initial set up and the maintenance cost were reduced considerably thanks to the "on the fly" transformation of the 5250 datastream, panel changes and application extensions are browser accessible immediately, without any additional effort. The use of the "webfacing server port" eliminates the OLTP-feature and reduces the interactive workload on the server.

"Learning HATS is fun. After unpacking the tool, the "welcome page" and the cool wizards guide you through the first steps. Within an hour your application looks completely different. This is what "rapid application development" really means. In addition, an extensive set of tutorials and documentation help you learn how to use the rich HATS functionality and how to integrate and interact with other web applications. Once again, with HATS and WDHT(V7.0), we can leverage our customers in becoming more successful running their business!"
- Jean-Pierre Geuens, Architect

Hardis
"With a very small effort we can port efficiently legacy "green screens" applications to the web using HATS. For a 2000 screens application we only need 3 transformations and 3 rendering rules."
- Jean-Pierre Romeyer, Technology Intelligence Manager, Hardis

MSI Systems Integrators
"Great product, especially in conjunction with Portal. HATS in combination with Portal will give us the ability to totally transform and extend the interface to our customer legacy applications... We liked the quick and easy default transformation that HATS supplies, coupled with its extensibility and WebSphere Studio plugin."
- Ron Faltin, Director of Services, MSI Systems Integrators

Open Logic Solutions
"An impressive product... Some of the new widgets add a new dimension to the quality of the transformation - the global rules and transformation fragments that add calendar and drop-down lists to screens, for example."
- Jon Morris, Technical Specialist, Open Logic Solutions

SAGA D.C. GmbH
"Using HATS, you are able to integrate existing host applications to the web, enhance the usability, or even provide them as web service without overwhelming the developer with implementation details. The product is very useful and you are able to get very good results in a short timeframe. The usage was mostly intuitive, and the handling very easy. I think once somebody decided to reuse their old applications, whether as a Service or as a customized Web Application, HATS is the right approach."
- Jochen Grotepass, Managing Director, SAGA D.C. GmbH

ZAKSolutions
"We had a customer who wanted a quick demo to web enable CICS applications. We ran into problems with the first products we tried. The time to put together the demo was short, so we tried HATS. We were surprised by its simplicity and functions. We did our demo on time and the customer was happy with this product. HATS helps us develop quick web applications for EIS systems."
- Ayman Mohamad Abdul Fattah, Senior Applications Consultant