Modernize Your IBM i

User Experience

Boost Your Productivity with SilverDev

The Stakes of Modernization for IBM i Shops

Anticipate Opt for a Lasting Solution

Ensure the Reliability of Your IBM i Over the Long Term In-depth Modernization of Your Applications Reduce Your TCO!

Improve Profitability - Let Your Users Focus on Your Core Business

Save Time for Your Users Upgrade With Flexible Applications Generate incomparable ROI!

Capitalize - Reduce Your Investment Costs

Capitalize on Your IBM i Platform Capitalize on Your Legacy Applications Capitalize on Your Know-how Graphical RPG IV Development SilverDev : Product Functions

Create - Graphical Applications in Seconds!

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its Client: SIEM

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The Stakes of Modernization for IBM i Shops

Modernizing 5250 applications has become a major concern for many companies, but the solutions available often represent a dilemma: is it best to preserve the reliability of existing hardware and management processes or to opt for a different solution that offers the flexibility required to maintain the companys competitive edge? It is the whole issue of back-office productivity that is in the balance here. Modernizing applications is a crucial decision that should be guided by profitability: the Added Value of a solution is measured by the ROI that it can generate.

So Why Choose at All? SilverDev is designed to provide a real alternative to the modernization solutions for your IBM i, while bringing performance and competitiveness to companies.

"SilverDev : Offer your users the flexibility of a lasting and innovative solution"

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Anticipate

You cant see the point of investing in a temporary solution? Well, neither can we! SilverDev is designed to last: it is a unique solution that combines the reliability of System i with your most essential management requirements.

Ensure the Reliability of Your IBM i Over the Long Term

Having been developed to preserve the major qualities of the IBM i platform, the SilverDev solution is guaranteed not to become obsolete in just three years!

Centralized Applications
SilverDev makes fastidious application development unnecessary: it keeps IBM is centralization concept, ensuring the stability required for your management system.
We are using SilverDev since 2006. It has completely changed the way we build applications. We can now make real Windows applications, in RPG, with all the advantages of the IBM i. Silverdev is easy to install, easy to learn, and makes fast running applications on the iSeries, without any deployment to the workstations. Try it.

RPG IV ILE
RPG ILE is a robust, modern and productive language. It is highly scalable and now integrates new functions such as modular programming, free format, new integrated functions, as well as being open to languages like C, xml and Java A true guarantee of reliability and stability for your business management rules.

Instant Communication
Thanks to its own TCP/IP server optimized for application execution*, SilverDev makes the most of the essential speed potential of the 5250.

ROBOVER (Canada)

Bernard LAVOIE

* 30ms/request on average, which is 20 times faster than a web browser!

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Anticipate
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In-depth Modernization of Your Applications

SilverDev does not just apply a surface graphic layer to the 5250. It designs the graphic interface and navigation of your applications: modernization is thorough, providing real Added Value to your Information System.

N a vi g a ti o n Reduce Your TCO!

Bringing real Added Value to the modernization of your IBM i while preserving the uncontested advantages of the platform: this is the unique combination that makes SilverDev the only lasting modernization solution. Why waste your time on a solution that has to be updated every two years: SilverDev finally allows long-term anticipation, while reducing your TCO considerably.

Choosing SilverDev represents savings of at least 50% over 1 0 years on Client/Server or Webfacing solutions!

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Let Your Users Focus on Your Core Business

Improve Profitability

Far beyond merely modernizing the graphic interface, SilverDev reduces the usage time of IBM i applications at all levels and increases user productivity significantly.

Save Time for Your Users

The time spent on your management applications is the cornerstone of user productivity. By optimizing not only their interface, but also the navigation system, SilverDev revolutionizes the ergonomics of your applications thoroughly. No more waster time for your users! They will have instant access to information and will at last be able to concentrate on the most essential tasks: your core business.

Windows interface "Click, drag, drop" Event navigation Rich graphic components Intuitive and quick to learn Incomparable rapidity of the SilverDev TCP/IP server

"SilverDev is unique in the IBM i world in that development starts from the point of view of the user" - Alex Woodie pour IT Jungle

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Let Your Users Focus on Your Core Business

Improve Profitability

Upgrade With Flexible Applications

Forget the monolithic framework of the 5250. Your applications can now be adapted to your most specific needs with incomparable flexibility on the IBM i platform. Open the doorway to new possibilities to upgrade your management processing along with your activities.

This new option replaces fifteen 5250 screens, 4 menu options and all the business rules were retrieved from existing sources. The 1 0 regular users of these options, who now have PCs with two screens are delighted.

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Program in just a few clicks Design function-rich applications Optimize maintenance time

Generate incomparable ROI!

By optimizing development requirements as well as application use requirements, SilverDev innovates by generating ROI throughout your BackOffice.

Save up to 3 days' work per user every year! *

* Calculation based on server response time savings and navigation time optimization

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Reduce Your Investment Costs

Capitalize
management portfolio attains its highest possible level of performance, boosting your competitive advantage.

SilverDev extends the possibilities of your application portfolio. Discover a flexible solution that releases the power of System i without its downsides: a unique alternative, that offers your information system high Added Value while boosting its performance.

Capitalize on Your Existing Systems

No need to turn towards expensive, timeconsuming solutions to bring about change. With SilverDev, the whole of your

SilverDev has enabled us to offer two types of service: the production of user-friendly and effective data and statistics extraction tools and the modernization of existing management applications that now enjoy the ergonomics of a graphic version, without losing the users input reflexes, thereby optimizing productivity. SilverDev combines ease and flexibility of production with the robustness and security of system i, and has won over all our entire team of programmers of all ages, as well as our clients. Marie-Line Manchon

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Capitalize
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IBM i Platform
Renowned for its reliability and stability, IBM i is undoubtedly the ideal system for business management. SilverDev does not question this. On the contrary, by conserving application centralization on your IBM i, SilverDev releases its performance potential.

Legacy Applications
Your data, which represent genuine intangible value for the company, are preserved and protected. Your business applications are thus optimized in their "screens" part (DSPF) without involving fastidious rewriting of your management rules, which are the foundations of your Information System.

Know-how
Capitalize on the knowledge of your current teams! By keeping RPG as the programming language, SilverDev not only avoids having to re-train your teams in new languages, but also avoids having to translate all your applications. Known for its robustness and its "management" specialization, RPG is undoubtedly the language that reduces maintenance time the most. Why waste time on unnecessary work?

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Graphical Applications in Seconds!

SilverDev is both simple and powerful, enabling the design of user graphic interfaces with traditional Windows components. With SilverDev, you can offer your users all the comforts of Windows applications without losing the uncontested advantages of System i.

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Interfaces are created with an intuitive, easy-touse graphic tool

More user-friendly than green screens: SilverDev uses the Windows interface Simpler than green screens: screens are design using the mouse

RPG IV language

Overview: SilverDev form designer

The programming language is RPG IV either with PDM, or with the SilverDev IDE
Simpler than a DSPF: programming logic is based on events. You just "react" to events (mouse click, etc.) More flexible than a DSPF: interface component properties can be modified dynamically (color, font, position, etc.)

Execution

Applications are available to users immediately

Simpler than a client/server system: applications are not deployed on user workstations More stable and secure than a client/server system: applications run on System i Faster than a web browser: the interface is optimised for management applications

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SilverDev: Product Functions

Optimised TCP/IP server Centralization on System i Automatic conversion of character sets (EBCDIC/ASCII) Automatic caching of windows and pictures Remote, browserless connection (LAN/WAN) Management of application access rights Event-driven RPG IV programming Graphic IDE (source editor, compilation, debugging...) Context-specific help Windows ergonomics and user-friendliness Sub-file component Numeric field component supporting Edit Code Tree structure component (Tree View) Standard Windows components: button, combo box, radio button, tick box, list box, status bar, etc. Date, tab sheet, graph, picture components TrayIcon , Timer components Standard Windows dialogue box components Skin component Drop-down menus, pop ups, etc. MDI windows Drag and drop File transfer functions (upload and download) Launch of applications on the PC from the RPG Print module included in the product Export to Excel & PDF, sending of e-mails TWAIN scanner management Access to third party DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.)

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ES-Concept Chooses SilverDev for its Client: SIEM

Success Story
ES-Concept (Switzerland)
Software publisher and application developer

After more than two years use, it is difficult to remember the exact circumstances of this projects implementation: it all went so smoothly and without a hitch .

Those Involved
SIEM (France)
Production, treatment and distribution of drinking water

The Project
User requirements
Elimination of the green screens that had been part of the company since 1 992 Work harmonization with PC tools and functions Desire to improve the graphic interface Simplification of exchanges between iSeries and PC

Technical requirements
New modeling product approach, while keeping the familiar development languages Possibility of improving the existing application via a simplified interface with the PC universe

The Objectives
To replace existing display files with SilverDev screens, while preserving the philosophy of the application software to avoid causing operational difficulties on software that had been used for 6 years already To integrate the graphic functions that had previously been difficult to run

A single person carried out the study, analysis and development of the 467 display files in just 70 days. A representative committee of users tested and validated the new application during the course of its development.

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Results

Traditional menu of the old application

The same menu with SilverDev

The Strong Points of SilverDev: Testimonials

Scalability
Improvements have been made regularly since its implementation and other changes are in the pipeline. The scalability of SilverDev enables constant progress, without calling the fundamentals into question.

Adaptability
"Thanks to the flexibility offered by SilverDev, development was adapted as progress was made to enable delivery of a tool to match user requirements and our activity."

Managing Director

By adjusting to our needs, SilverDev enabled us to optimize the quality and rapidity of our work. It is a product with multiple possibilities, fulfilling both our constant needs and our many, various requirements.
Administrative Director

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Experia, Specialized in IBM i for More Than 20 Years

In the heart of Europe, located between Lyon and Geneva, Experia is specialized in software publishing for the IBM system i environment. The company was founded in 1 991 and develops Software Engineering tools and proposes language training courses and client project assistance solutions. Among the various solutions proposed by Experia, the GEODE computer-aided software environment or the LOREA application enrichment tool have been major contributors to the companys reputation.

They rely on SilverDev

Robover Canada Infitex France Pepsico France IDT French Polynesia ONEA Burkina Faso

NIKKO Bank Luxembourg

Logiam France

Datasphere Switzerland

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Interactive SilverDev demo for your files and programs with our Development Lab

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Download our tutorials

Quick Start How to install and set up SilverDev on your system Wizard Tutorial

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We were not interested in setting about an extensive revamping project, involving major investments and taking up large amounts of our hardware resources. [...] In just one and half months, SilverDev enabled us to provide our technical zone managers with a contract management application that had been enriched graphically, was visually appealing and functional, and took into account our existing IT systems and without painstaking deployment on client workstations.

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