Services

Software Sciences Group provides services for your Cincom applications throughout their life-cycle, from initial implementation to enhanced usage, release upgrades, and even migration to new environments when that becomes appropriate.

CONTROL: Manufacturing Services

SSG can add value to your implementation and use of CONTROL: in a number of ways. Whether you are currently using CONTROL: release 6.x, 7.x, or CONTROL: Open, we know your system and can support your needs. If you are planning an upgrade to a newer release, a move to the Oracle version, or a migration to an entirely new environment, we are uniquely prepared to make your transition smooth and effective.

Supra/Mantis Application Re-engineering Services

Many companies have custom applications developed with Supra and/or Mantis that are proven through years of use and continue to provide functionality critical to the operation of the business. In many cases, these applications can provide the foundation for new web-based or client/server capabilities if they can be cost-effectively moved to a newer computing environment. SSG has the tools and experience to make such a move possible.

CONTROL:Manufacturing Services

NEW FUNCTIONALITY DEVELOPMENT

No application software product fully meets the needs of all companies, and some level of customization or extension is often needed. But poorly executed modifications can be a support nightmare. With our thorough understanding of CONTROL's architecture and programming standards, we can develop custom capabilities or sub-systems that work seamlessly with CONTROL while minimizing long-term support problems.

INTEGRATION

Most companies have a need to pass data between CONTROL and other applications. SSG has developed many such interfaces - with legacy systems as well as new applications and packages. We can leverage our experience and our tools to get your integration done quickly and effectively.

LEGACY REENGINEERING OR ELIMINATION

If you have older applications outside your CONTROL system that use an obsolete DBMS or file system, they are likely to present an on-going risk as well as an added support burden. If the functionality of such systems can be replaced by your CONTROL installation, SSG can help you simplify your environment and eliminate those systems from your support load by planning and executing the migration of those systems to CONTROL.

If it is not practical to fully replace certain applications, you may want SSG to re-engineer them to utilize the ORACLE or Supra DBMS. This can improve performance as well as supportability. In some cases, we can even modify older applications to use the same database tables maintained by CONTROL, thus reducing reduntant data as well as duplicate processing.

PLATFORM MIGRATION

There are many advantages to today's powerful UNIX servers and the Oracle RDBMS. SSG can help you upgrade to a newer release of CONTROL: and transition to the new computing environment. But also, if in the near term it is not practical for you to upgrade your older version of CONTROL: to a newer version in order to make the move, it is quite possible that SSG can migrate the system you already have from an IBM mainframe or DEC VAX machine to a new UNIX platform and the Oracle RDBMS. Our tools and methodology can make it practical and dramatically reduce the time and cost required do it.

CONTROL: USAGE CONSULTING

If you want to maximize CONTROL:'s extensive capabilities to meet a particular business need or optimize daily system operations, we can help. We use our knowledge of CONTROL functionality and process inter-relationships to recommend approaches that improve support for your business processes, reduce run times, or simplify operations.