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How Can You Minimize The Risk Of An Upgrade?

 

Release 8 is a very important release, bringing with it numerous strategic features that significantly enhance the way you use CA Gen and improve the applications it generates. These features include CA Gen Studio—Modern Developer Tool Framework, Web View—Web 2.0 Application Support, Expanded Web Services and SOA Support, and Support for CA Mainframe Software Manager, making it hard to argue against any shop upgrading.  Acknowledging the need to make this transition is one thing, how to actually do it is another.  There are few bigger headaches to the mature Gen shop than an upgrade.  It brings up a variety of questions and concerns:

Questions

  • Never a good time to do it.
  • Who can we trust on our staff to lead it?
  • Where will they find the time?
  • How long will it take for our people to do it?
  • Will it go smoothly even with our best people on it?
  • Can I afford the risk of this upgrade not going well?

Concerns

  • Most CA Gen applications are large, unique, custom, mission critical customer applications and cannot  afford to be without vendor support (CA, IBM, Oracle, MS etc….).
  • Have not performed a CA Gen upgrade in years and may lack the necessary knowledge & experience.
  • Experienced CA Gen 8 personnel are difficult to find, especially those with the necessary upgrade and infrastructure knowledge.  Your current vendor and your traditional IT partners also lack this knowledge.
  • The risks and associate costs are too high to take a chance on a failed upgrade. Finding a quality vendor with experience and reliability is key.
  • Vendor field support is non-existent and phone support alone is a risky approach for this type of upgrade.

Take away the  headache and mitigate the risk of your 8 Gen upgrade.How can you take away the headache and mitigate the risk of your 8 Gen upgrade?  That’s simple — go straight to the experts! QAT has been a part of more successful CA Gen upgrades than any service provider in North America.  We will mitigate your risk by providing custom solutions for each individual client that are backed by experienced leadership and specialized support.

QAT will put together a plan that is right for you.  The delivery will be custom tailored to meet your shops needs, with a staffing model providing for QAT’s total ownership of the project or a cooperative effort to include members of your team.  QAT can provide you with consulting services for any or all parts of the upgrade, including analysis of the current system, preparation for the upgrade, testing, and performing the upgrade itself. QAT also provides training services to enable users to extract the maximum value from the latest features.

Leverage the experience of this team of Upgrade Specialists for your upgrade.  Get it done in record time, for perhaps less than the cost of doing it all yourself, all the while keeping your staff busy doing what they do best. 

Why QAT?

Our services around CA Gen are founded on our extensive practical experience in building working products, best practices, and solutions for enterprises across the globe with the CA Gen product. We offer products, services, training and mentoring to organizations and their employees in developing and integrating systems using the CA Gen product. We take pride in being associated with this product from its early days as IEF through its days as Composer, COOL:Gen, Advantage Gen, AllFusion Gen to its current CA Gen version.  With our CA Gen lineage and our vast technical expertise in and out of the CA Gen product, we are the company CA Gen clients from around the world call on to solve their most difficult CA Gen issues.

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