MB Foster Associates Limited

MB Foster Associates

Migration

Our experience in the area of migration is wide reaching. Our knowledgeable staff has experience in moving data while maintaining the business logic, analyzing existing data structures and recreating new structures with the same logic, and ensuring that program code is moved, migrated or rewritten with the same attention to detail. MBF-UDALink, our in-house developed data access solution is well suited for data migration. MBF-UDACentral, our in-house developed database solution was built specifically to migrate data sources from IMAGE to alternate dbms solutions. Our partnerships ensure that we have the solutions available for all customer needs, regardless of which target platform, database, program language, or transition solution is chosen.

Decision Support

MB Fosters data mart solutions address the need of corporate executives and managers to access and analyze the companys information. Using MBF-UDALink, our data access and delivery tool, data is removed from the application repositories, normalized and stored in a alternative data structure, creating a data mart. Popular desktop tools can then be used to query the data mart for decision support purposes.

Data Access and Delivery

MBF-UDALink is a complete data access and delivery solution available for HP 3000 and HP 9000. It is capable of accessing almost all data repositories and delivering data to the desktop in over 30 different output formats or methods.

Also available are the ODBC 3.5 compliant driver, and the JDBC Level 2 driver. These drivers provide access to non-SQL data sources permitting data to be accessed in non-relational structures and written to relational structures.

MBF-UDACentral is a JAVA based solution using JDBC to provide data structure information and database conversion from IMAGE and ALLBASE to Oracle and SQL Server 7. Import and Export functions are available to assist in data movement after migration.

Professional Services

MB Fosters customers have access to a team of knowledgeable experts in migration and data manipulation. They have access to a wide variety of IT solutions and strategies to meet the needs of all organizations.

About MB Foster

MB Foster, a provider of data access and delivery solutions to the Hewlett-Packard community for over 25 years is a selected HP Platinum Migration Partner. The company provides migration planning, services and tools to assist HP 3000 customers in their move to other platforms, as well as proven data access solutions which drive mission-critical IT operations around the world. As a Certified Microsoft Developer, an Oracle Partner, an IBM Business Partner, and a Sun Development Partner, MB Foster has a wealth of knowledge specifically focused on data where all business logic and critical information resides.

Company Details

Year Established: 1977

Number of Employees: 30

Company Information

Dawna Whitehead
Title: VP Sales and Marketing
Telephone: (613) 448-2333
Fax: (613) 448-2588
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Birket Foster
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
Telephone: (613) 448-2333
Fax: (613) 448-2588
Email: Click Here

Products

Mbf-udalink-ux

Mbf-udacentral
MBF-UDACentral is a JAVA based solution whose primary focus is accessing and transforming data. Whether your requirement for data is based on migration, data marting or simply data access, MBF-UDACentral will help you get the job done. Its efficiency and breadth of functionality and applicability make it the optimal choice for all your data needs.

Mbf-udasynch
MBF-UDASynch synchronizes TurboIMAGE database with Oracle or SQL Server database. Image intrinsic calls are monitored then posted to the remote SQL database with connectivity via an ODBC driver.

Mbf-udalink-mpe
MBF-UDALink is the most flexible and open solution for data access, transformation and delivery on the HP e3000. Having over 28 years of experience in the HP e3000 market makes MBFUDALink is a premier solution for data migration. No matter what the environment - PC, MAC, Terminal, ODBC enabled application, or web browser using JDBC; MBF-UDALink can access the data.

Mbf-udaconnector
MBF-UDAConnector is a data access layer that allows applications running on one server to access ODBC data sources on another server. It adds significant value to your existing investment in ODBC connectivity. With UDAConnector you can connect to more applications on more servers and databases than ever before.

Mbf-odbclink-ux
MBF-ODBCLink-UX architecture is based on the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) protocol, to enable Windows applications to access relational databases.

Mbf-jdbclink-ux
MBF-JDBCLink-UX is built on the J2EE standard. This standard is designed to simplify complex problems with the development, deployment and management of multi-tier enterprise solutions. Support for Java Beans, Enterprise Java Benas, Java Directory Naming Interface, and Java Transaction Service

Mbf-enterprise
MBF-Enterprise provides built-in connectivity to data sources and applications across a distributed environment which can include different platforms, and networks as well as the internet. It provides a flexible, dependable infrastructure for web-enabling mainframe and other legacy solutions. The architecture takes advantage of distributed processing and industry standards such as XML, JCA, JDBC, ODBC and OLE DB.

Mbf-datamarts
Business is about transforming data into information. Data marts meet that need by simplifying the process of sharing information. With a predefined scope and a focused audience, you can access and manipulate data to meet your objectives. Using the desktop tools of their choice, users are not confronted with the difficult learning curves associated with new product solutions. Available for Retail / Ecometry Applications, Health Care / Amisys Applications, ManMan / Manufacturning and custom applications

Eloquence
Eloquence is an integrated applications development and runtime environment. Developers can easily design and implement prototypes or customize existing programs easily. Eloquence is available for Windows NT, Linux and HP-UX. A graphical development environment is included on Windows platforms. This graphics development environment implements file sharing, making Eloquence independent of the availability of specific network files and overcoming limitations.

Mbf-console
The nature of ODBC connections prohibits the system administrator from knowing the identity of ODBC users on the system. Typically, only the ODBC server processes (listeners) are visible in the job queue. With MBF-Console, you now have a window into those listener processes. MBF-Console monitors and controls the MBF-UDALink ODBC, and JDBC connections and ODBCLink/SE ODBC driver activities within your environment. It is the tool you need to help manage your world of client-server activities.

Microfocus Netexpress
Micro Focus Net Express with .NET is a COBOL development environment that takes core business processes and extends them to the .NET Framework. Enterprise components can be quickly constructed and services from your existing business logic used to develop new Microsoft .NET, web or client/server applications. Net Express provides an environment to build new applications, leverage proven business logic and programming resources, dramatically reduce the development cycle and accelerating deployment of contemporary business applications. Net Express delivers legacy extension and integration through re-hosting of existing applications and deploying them on Windows, the .NET Framework, Linux and UNIX platforms. It migrates proven COBOL applications, protecting investments while reducing risk.

Microfocus Serverexpres
Specifically designed for performance and reliability to support high-volume transaction processing applications, Micro Focus Server Express is the platform of choice for deploying scalable high-performance business applications. It accelerates enterprise COBOL application performance, providing the fastest ever Micro Focus COBOL for UNIX and Linux. Server Express helps to reduce development and deployment costs and provides increased service levels through state-of-the-art components like FaultFinder and Enterprise Server

Vianova
Relocating your business-critical applicaitons to a new server environment can be a lengthy process. Your initial evaluation has indicated that the process of moving the application and integrating new technologies could take years! The prospect of relying on an absolute platform for years to come does not appeal to you. What if you could take your existing environment and move it all to the new platform as is, and migrate / update your applications on a development schedule that suits your companys needs and budget. This strategy is open to you through ViaNova 3000, by Ordina-Denkart.

Mpux
MPUX lets you take MPE with you All of the features you require to run, maintain and manage your HPe3000 application on another platform are included. Features have been emulated so perfectly, you may forget that your are using a new platform. MPUX provides complete emulation from intrinsics to the command interpreter. Applications are not isolated in the emulation environment, they have access to all native platform services. MPUX may also be used as a shell for an individual application remaining invisible to the users. Additionally, the intrinsics sub-system may be used individually.

Edwin
VPlus developers have two issues to deal with: how to migration and how to maintain. edWin/3K takes a different approach - move the screen I/O entirely away from VPlus but maintain the interface to the application so that code does not need to be modified. edWin/3K includes an emulator for just that reason.

Reveal
Every organization has the need to capture and distribute thousands of report pages to their end users. They also struggle with how to do this cost effectively, while maintaining data security and remaining quick and efficient. Reveal is a highly effective a central repository of reports and documents accessible from standard Internet web browsers. It captures, catalogs, indexes and maintains output from multiple sources - mainframes, midrange and network-based platforms.

Acucobol
As the core component of Acucorps extend family of solutions, the robust, ACUCOBOL-GT development system features a compiler, runtime, the Vision indexed file system, support utilities and a source-level, interactive debugger. The systems primary technology is its fast and accurate single-pass compiler, which generates executable code from sources written in ACUCOBOL-GT and a number of common COBOL variants. ACUCOBOL-GT produces compact, machine-independent object code or, optionally, native object code for Intel and SPARC processors. Compiled code is portable to more than 600 different platforms and several operating systems. Ported objects do not need to be relinked, whether the object is machine-independent or native code.

Acubench
AcuBench, a member of the extend family of Acucorp solutions, enhances the ACUCOBOL-GT compiler and runtime system with a powerful suite of GUI-based development tools. With AcuBench, you can develop and maintain your COBOL applications in a developer-friendly Microsoft 32-bit Windows environment and deploy your applications on any of the many platforms supported by Acucorp. The workbench presents all of its primary capabilities in an main application window. This window contains customizable toolbars and several interior windows for viewing projects; working with screen and project files; and for monitoring several types of system output. Acubench provides a GUI interface for working with graphical controls, the integrated debugger, and designing sections of a report. Designers and editors allow you to create and maintain event procedures, working-storage and linkage section items, file descriptors, and ACUCOBOL-GT configuration files.

Services

Migrations A migration begins with the assessment begins and progress' to the transition plan with preliminary costing and completes with a details plan with an Stattement of work for implmentation. Migration services are available from assessment, to complete migration including implementation, application software evaluation criteria setting and package sourcing, existing plan verification or perhaps just a simple data migration.