Company Overview

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 Information

Additional Details

Legal Name: Cel Corporation

Number of Employees: 50

Total Sales ($CDN): $100,000 - $200,000

Contacts

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.

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.

NAICS Categories

• 417310 Computer, Computer Peripheral and Pre-Packaged Software Wholesaler-Distributors

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