MACHSHAVA PITRONOT
(RATIONAL SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS)
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT And INTEGRATION SERVICES in LARGE ORGANIZATIONS
location
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Machshava Pitronot(M.P.) located in Israel and its sister organization Rational Software Solutionslocated in New York, assist large organizations in implementing and integrating middleware supplied bysoftware companies.
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MP also provides consulting services in areas that are directly related to the middleware.MP's customer base is in Israel , Europe and the United States.
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The typical customer is typically from the financial sector (Banking , Insurance) but there are also customers from the aviation, government, health care and industrial sectors.
partner's
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M.P. partners with IBM and CA :
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MP has two agreements with IBM :
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SVI
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zVI for z/OS
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The success of M.P. is demonstrated by a number of customers, who have continued their relationship with MP since its inception in 1996.
Areas of expertise
M.P.'s prime area expertise is with organizations with legacy systems deployed on the IBM z/OS operating system.
The applications are most prevalent are:
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Configuration management, source control and version management.
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Modernization of the z/OS developer platform using the eclipse based IDE: RD/z
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who have continued
All of the applications are geared at providing developer efficiency in order to enhance the quality of the software applications being developed and deployed as well as cutting costs both for the developers and hardware.
Machshava Pitronot has has certifications for the IBM Rational Brand and the Websphere BPM and agreements in place for zVI which encompass mainframe software solutions.
Machsava Pitronot is concentrating on the following products:
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IBM PDTOOLS for z/OS
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IBM ILOG / Jrules for COBOL
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Rational Developer for System z
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Rational Team Concert
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Rational Asset Analyzer
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Tivoli Storage related Tools
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Tivoli Monitoring Tools
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z/OS PDTOOLS
Project Management
The products that are encompassed in the MP portfolio are technically complex.
The sales cycle is unusually long often taking up to two years and implementations require a large amount of knowledge transfer and traning for the customer.
MP assumes responsibility for all of the technical tasks associated with the products from the identification of the customer's need throughout the project life.
In some cases the ongoing project control has exceeded 20 years.
The tasks include:
Pre-sale
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Identification of customer need
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Interfacing with IBM sales team
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Providing technical presentations for customer
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Providing services for POT and in depth technical understanding of the product
post-sale
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provided as billable services for the customer
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Providing training through formal courses or on the job training
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Interfacing and training of product administrator
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Building project and implementation plan
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Performing productcustomization as necessary
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Providing ongoing technical support
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Periodic reviews to allow for both expanding use of the product to introduce new functionality and/or preparation for new releases of the product