ARCAD Software received the Innovation in Enterprise Modernization Development Award at IBM Innovate 2013. The award recognizes IBM Business Partner solutions delivering an enterprise modernization solution that helps customers extend the value and performance of existing software assets, skills, and processes. The solution must demonstrate exploitation of Power Systems or Application Migration portfolios to solve traditional business challenges in innovative ways.

In response to receiving the award, CEO Philippe Magne says he expects the combined Rational and ARCAD technology will help establish a new and modern standard for change management in the IBM i marketplace.

"This combined offer is the guarantee for the IBM i customers to adopt a long life technology that covers both their existing and future needs. Even for those who are not ready yet to adopt IBM Rational Team Concert [especially the ones that continue to use the 5250 development tools], they have the guarantee they will be able to adopt it in the future without any disruption", says Magne.

ARCAD Software has been building industry-leading IBM i development tools for over 20 years. This expertise encapsulated in the ARCAD-Rational Power Pack advances the pace of enterprise modernization while helping IBM i development organizations to maximize the return on their investments in Rational software and the IBM i platform.

Founded in 1992, ARCAD Software develops and markets a complete, integrated software suite dedicated to automating and ensuring the reliability and traceability of application changes in multi-platform environments. The ARCAD solutions are modular, covering software configuration and release management, data configuration management, test automation, application modernization and user relationship management. Each solution can either be adopted as part of a package or implemented separately. All solutions are integrated via a shared multi-platform metadata repository, allowing progressive adoption of best practices and regulatory constraints (e.g. ITIL, SOX, CMMi). ARCAD’s product offering has been developed over the last 20 years by the same R&D team and provides functional coverage that is unequalled in the international market. ARCAD has over 1000 licenses deployed in 34 different countries, including internationally-known clients such as IBM, HSBC, NASDAQ OMX, ABN AMRO, GE Capital, etc. Visit our site for more information: www.arcadsoftware.com.