IBM i Application Modernization Series

Planning your digital strategy for 2021 and beyond? Attend this session with Chris Koppe to learn why it’s so important to have a comprehensive IT strategy and IBM i roadmap.

Chris will cover the different solutions available for your organization to align IT with your business strategy, as well as the outcomes you can expect based on the approach that you take.

Chris Koppe

VP

Strategic Transformation

Since joining Fresche in 1988, Chris has helped hundreds of companies develop and execute successful application management and modernization strategies across a variety of platforms, languages, databases, and technologies. This insight has allowed Chris to accumulate a wealth of best practice expertise that covers everything from strategy and planning to implementation to deployment and project governance for large-scale IBM i modernization projects.

Transforming your RPG and CA 2E (Synon) applications to modern languages is one way to enhance your core applications while embracing open source, cloud, web and AI technologies.

Attend this session with Nick Hampson to learn how you can modernize applications at lower cost and risk than rewriting or replacing while building on the investment in your customized systems.

Nick Hampson

Senior Product Manager

Transformation

Nick has extensive experience in Design, UX, Product Management, innovation and Pre-sales. Focused on bringing the business value of design and UX to IBM i customers and the community at large, Nick is recognized as a UX expert on IBM i.

With automated analysis and modernization tools, you can reduce the time spent managing IBM i applications and onboarding new developers, move projects forward faster, and reduce the risks involved in making changes to your code.

In this session, Ray Everhart demonstrates the business value derived from application documentation, analysis and better understanding of your IBM i applications.

Ray Everhart

Senior Product Manager

X-Analysis

For over 30 years, Ray has helped companies understand, develop and manage their RPG, COBOL and CA 2E application environments. He also specializes in helping clients enhance and modernize their systems to meet evolving business demands and take advantage of digital transformation opportunities.

 

As companies expand, they often outgrow the size of the fields in their databases. Field expansion creates numerous cascading changes throughout an application, which can make it almost impossible to manually expand the fields.

Attend this session with Robert Arce to learn how taking an automated approach to field resizing reduces the risk of human error, provides a detailed impact assessment for the resize project and eliminates the guess work while handling all aspects of the resizing task.

Robert Arce

IT Strategist

Robert Arce is an IT Strategist and a subject matter expert in the IBMi system, assisting companies all over the world with their modernization projects. He is an expert in Fresche's IBM i Application Analysis and Management Suite, X-Analysis.

 

Improving your business by focusing on the customer experience is a driving force behind digital transformation. This can seem overwhelming if you’re not sure which initiatives to invest in to provide maximum value for the business.

In this session, Kevin Cronin shares what he has learned about the business challenges that IBM i organizations are facing and how they’re overcoming them with strategic web and mobile applications (e.g. B2B/B2C order entry, invoicing, eCommerce and more).

Kevin Cronin

Director

Web Development Services

Kevin has been with Fresche Solutions for 28 years and has over 30 years’ experience in various capacities working with the IBM i and midrange platforms. He considers himself fortunate to manage a team of talented individuals with an excellent track record of delivering browser-based solutions to customers on IBM i around the world.

 

Many organizations are facing an urgent need to provide web and mobile access to their IBM i applications and data. In this session, Greg Patterson will demonstrate how Fresche’s IBM i web and mobile development solutions provide a low-risk, low-cost way to leverage your investment in IT.

Greg Patterson

Modernization Specialist

Greg Patterson has been in the IT field for 18 years, the last 11 with Fresche Solutions where he is currently a Modernization Specialist. In addition to business development activities, Greg also coordinates pre-sales technical demonstrations and discussions, performs business analysis and is sometimes involved at the coding level for specific projects.

 

A modern forms solution is one of the most valuable investments you can make in your IBM i system. The benefits are significant, from improving customer service and building brand equity, to extending the life of your applications and the platform, and reducing printing and distribution costs.

Attend this session with Stephen Flaherty to learn how to automatically transform your forms, checks, labels and barcodes into professional, brandeddocuments with Formtastic.

Stephen Flaherty

Technical Specialist

Stephen Flaherty began RPG programming in the early 1980s, and worked for many types of organizations in the manufacturing, retail, and software development industries before joining Fresche. As a strategist and IBM i application development expert, Stephen helps clients transform their IBM i systems with innovative strategies and modern solutions.

 

Automation is key to adapting rapidly and moving multiple projects (e.g. field resizing and RPG refactoring) to completion.

Attend this session with Ray Everhart to learn how Fresche's end-to-end testing suite reduces risk by enabling developers to automatically test the UI, business logic and the database.

Ray Everhart

Senior Product Manager

X-Analysis

For over 30 years, Ray has helped companies understand, develop and manage their RPG, COBOL and CA 2E application environments. He also specializes in helping clients enhance and modernize their systems to meet evolving business demands and take advantage of digital transformation opportunities.