Playbook, Technology, People and Successes.
We are experienced in helping executives and IT teams execute on programs to modernize their Unidata, Universe, and other MultiValue Applications.
Assess Your Existing MV Applications
Assessments
Our teams are knowledgeable about all Database flavors (Unidata) and many of the top MV ERP systems and 4GL's (SB+, Cuebic, etc.)
Deploy Our Cloud Enabled Integration Services
Enabling Technology
We have developed MV services to deliver real time replication, configurable bi-directional API services, and AI/ML code discovery capabilities - in your cloud.
Which Enables Integration of New Commercial Solutions
System Integration
Leverage cloud enabled integration services to support new applications (MS Dynamics, SAP, etc.) sharing a common integration strategy with MV and other apps.
Which Delivers "Headless" MV Application
End of Life
Manage new application integrations until MV risk reduced to only essential business logic as a "headless" service or full retirement.
So, Why Do the C-Suites of Major Companies Want Their MultiValue Systems
Retired ASAP?
Risk.
IT. Security. Regulatory. Competitive.
An innovation 50 years ago, MultiValue (MV) technology gave birth to a first generation of highly customizable business applications.
Thousands of MV applications are still in operation within major manufacturing, distribution, banking, healthcare, governmental and other verticals.
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With annual R&D investments by the top 5 mainstream database and cloud providers of many billions of dollars, MV has continued to be challenged as a viable enterprise platform.
For most IT and business executives, their MV applications increasingly represent significant IT and Business Risk.
Critical Risk Factors
Supplier Risk
Most MV database technology sourced from a single vendor.
Talent Risk
Experienced MV net resources are increasingly hard to find.
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Infrastructure Risk
Monolithic, non-cloud native architecture poses scalability, security and other risks.
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Innovation Risk
Ability to move as fast as needed to leverage new technologies to maintain a competitive advantage.
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MV Applications Become De-Risked when their Applications, Technical Architectures, and Human Capital Dependencies Become Mainstream.
Transformation
More Than Modernization
MV Modernization has been defined as placing a modern UX on a green screen, web enabling, replicating data to a modern database, or building API access. The process is often described as extending the life of the MV application.
One dominant reason for this approach is the belief that the business logic of these systems was so unique that it could not be replicated in mainstream commercial applications.
SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and NetSuite report almost 750k customers (56% share of the ERP market) including nearly every Global 2000 company. In contrast total MV customers (not just ERP) are estimated at less than 20k (less than 1%) and shrinking.
Is it possible that 99% of companies using ERP applications have systems that do not meet their needs?
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Microsoft reached $29B in annual R&D. What could have been invested in the niche multi-value market place?
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Technology Challenges
Monolithic Architecture
MV's application architecture does not isolate presentation, business logic and database into enforced separate tiers.
Database Integrity
Data store does not enforce data integrity which is delegated to application code often resulting in data consistency issues that make migrations even more difficult.
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Infrastructure Scalability
Most MV applications run on single multi-user systems and do not benefit from redundancy and tier scalability.
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Proprietary Languages
The majority of legacy MV applications are written in a non-object oriented language with a declining workforce knowledgeable of this technology.
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Proven Partner
Strategy and Technology
A Playbook and Technologies that
Accelerate Transformation.
Strategy
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Understand the transformation journey to date
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Align with business objectives
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Map and deploy a uniform cloud integration strategy
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Document Application Integration Roadmap
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Support integration of net new applications
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Manage to end of life or small headless MV services
Technology
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Uniform Cloud Integration Solutions for MV
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Event-based Data Replications for SQL
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Business Object Replication to NoSQL
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Rest API Framework exposes MV Business Logic
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Enhanced logging and telemetry
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AI/ML data structure and code discovery
Deep Knowledge of MV Eco-System Combined with Modern Cloud-Centric Computing Expertise.
30 Year's Experience
MV Experts. Cloud Experts.
Onsystex was founded by MultiValue veterans with an average of 30-years' experience including positions at leading MultiValue companies such as Pick Systems, Raining Data, Informix, Ardent, Unidata, System Builder, ONgroup, Cuebic, Apscore, Ultimate Corp, General Automation and C.Itoh.
We are passionate about continuous advancements in application development, integration frameworks, resiliency and the role of AI/ML in accelerating legacy system transformation.
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Our experience spans many major MV applications and the 4GL's that they are built on (e.g. SystemBuilder, Cuebic etc.) as well as all flavors of MV databases.