Celcorp
Celcorp is a leading developer of Intelligent Systems.
Celcorp's core product, Celware, uses Intelligent Systems to
enable businesses to seamlessly access information over their
extended enterprises.
Serving the information technology needs of Fortune 500
companies since 1990, Celcorp has successfully implemented
technology solutions into several major corporations including
Bay Networks, Hallmark Cards, Holiday In Worldwide, Liberty
Mutual Insurance, Lockheed-Martin, Motorola, Apple Computer,
NASA and United Airlines. Celcorp envisions a world where
connectivity is simple and easily attained regardless of the
challenges presented by multiple platforms, disparate technology
architectures, complex mainframe communication, and risky
client/server migration.
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Cel Corporation (Cel) is a leading developer and distributor of
legacy systems modernization and web-to-mainframe integration
software. Products include Blacksmith for connecting desktop
computers to mainframes via a user-friendly graphical user
interface; LegacyLink, which allows for connectivity via the
Internet; and Amerigo, an Internet/Intranet travel reservations
solution.
Offices:
Celcorp's headquarters are located in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada.
Company Background and History:
Cel's flagship product, Blacksmith(tm), was developed in 1990.
Finding success in solving a particular problem for large
corporations and unmatched by other available products, Cel
decided to further develop the market and the product. Over the
years, Cel became known as the 'connectivity experts to legacy',
referring to Cel's ability to provide solutions for dealing with
well established legacy mainframe software systems. Cel has
also tapped its expertise in Internet communications to develop
LegacyLink, a software product designed to facilitate access to
legacy systems through the World Wide Web. The company's latest
offering, Amerigo, is an Internet travel reservations system
which allows users to book travel itineraries using a Web
browser.
Business and Product Description:
The technical base of Cel is its connectivity expertise. The
company's Blacksmith software consists mainly of complex
software
commands that 'speak' the common connection languages of
mainframes by translating the information to be utilized for
graphical user interfaces of desktop computers. Blacksmith also
provides functionality for navigating through the complex
procedures required to operate mainframe computer applications.
Beyond simple terminal emulation software, Blacksmith solves the
problem of connecting the graphical interface of the PC world to
the complex text-based applications still residing on mainframes
and minicomputers. Blacksmith navigates through the non
user-friendly screens from the mainframe application before the
user sees them, recognizes them with its pattern and time
recognition algorithms, and them replaces them with an
appropriate user interface screen that displays the data in a
graphical (GUI) manner. The user interface - PC software - is
created in advance by a developer and is more easily written and
maintained than mainframe software.
Using Blacksmith to replace the terminal screens automates the
interaction with the mainframe software. Repetitive and tedious
data entry and data retrieval tasks can be reduced to a button
click. This greatly reduces human errors and creates a
reliability factor that can be worth millions to a corporation.
Blacksmith supports most of the popular mainframe communications
methods and graphical interface building tools (i.e. 4th
Dimension, Omnis 7, Hypercard, C, and C++). A version of
Blacksmith has also been developed which is an OLE (Object
Linking and Embedding) enabling application, thereby making
Blacksmith compatible with many additional applications which
support OLE including Powerbuilder, Visual Basic and Excel.
Cel's product has distinct quality advantages over its direct
competitors. Blacksmith runs faster, uses less memory, is
swiftly upgraded to support a variety of connection methods,
operating systems and desktop software packages, and provides a
solution that better suits changes in the IS department's needs.
Blacksmith also resides entirely on the desktop requiring no
changes to the host. Blacksmith can access many host
applications from several host computers simultaneously and can
integrate the data into one simple graphical window. Blacksmith
is also significantly less expensive than the more complex
alternatives of competitors.
Using the technology and expertise with connectivity solutions
they have developed over the past several years, Cel has quickly
progressed into new areas of connectivity technology.
LegacyLink and Amerigo are two Cel products which demonstrate
the
company's ability to apply their experience to new areas. These
products take the foundation of Blacksmith technology and build
solutions for mainframe access via the Internet.
LegacyLink is proving to be a huge success for Cel as
corporations are now discovering the need for remote access to
their legacy systems. Field sales reps, service technicians,
off-site engineers and many other professionals are increasingly
finding the need to access corporate databases and other
applications from remote sites, even from laptops via wireless
modems.
The latest addition to Cel's product family, Amerigo is a
comprehensive Internet/Intranet travel reservations engine
designed to meet the needs of corporate travel departments.
Amerigo gives business travelers quick and easy access to the
information and tools they need to build and book their own
travel itineraries. Deployed over a secure corporate Intranet,
employees can make travel reservations directly from their
personal computer or laptop using any standard Web browser.
Development Activities:
CEL is constantly adding to BLACKSMITH's functionality.
Currently under development are:
* LU 6.2 support for Macintosh and Windows clients * Power
Objects support * VT100 support in Windows * a driver level
terminal emulator that can be activated and used in any of the
windowing environments that CEL's products are supporting *
6530 data stream support * VT430 + support on Macintosh and
Windows * support for other connection methods * OpenDoc support.
Company Details
Year Established:
1990
Total Sales ($CDN):
$1,000,000 - $5,000,000
Number of Employees:
50
Company Information
Russel Matichuk
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
Area of Responsibility:
Management Executive
Telephone:
(780) 438-2323
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(780) 430-1153
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Derwin Herrera
Area of Responsibility:
Export Sales & Marketing
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(780) 438-2323
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(780) 430-1153
Oscor Robledo
Title:
CTO
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(780) 438-2323
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(780) 430-1153
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Armin Gebauer
Title:
Vice President
Area of Responsibility:
Domestic Sales & Marketing
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(780) 438-2323
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(780) 430-1153
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Troy Huebner
Title:
Manager
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(780) 438-2323
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Jim Syms
Title:
Vice President
Area of Responsibility:
Finance/Accounting
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(780) 438-2323
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(780) 430-1153
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Bruce Matichuk
Title:
President
Area of Responsibility:
Management Executive
Telephone:
(780) 438-2323
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(780) 430-1153
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Jane Dodds
Title:
Executive and Marketing Assistant
Telephone:
(780) 438-2323
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(780) 430-1153
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Products
Connectivity Software
Legacylink
LegacyLink simplifies remote access to existing corporate
mainframe or minicomputer on-line applications. LegacyLink
provides an interface between Web browsers, servers, and legacy
on-line applications running on mainframes or minicomputers. With
LegacyLink, the user of a Web browser appears to be communicating
directly with the legacy on-line application.
Services
Enterprise Application Integration
Celware is a leading edge suite of enterprise application
integration solutions. The Celware integration solution is
developed to support diverse business needs such as Front-to-
Back Office Integration, e-commerce and Supply Chain Management.
The Celware strategy is a comprehensive suite of applications
that integrate disparate data throughout multi-platform
environments in real time. This intelligent business solution
combines critical integration components, Celware Engineer and
Celware Pilot. These components run inside Celware's production
environment the Celware server allowing each component to
leverage the same scalability, security, robustness and
manageability.