CA Technologies has announced that they will no longer support CA Plex r7.0 beginning January 15, 2016. They recommend upgrading to CA Plex r7.1 or r7.2 prior to that date. See the full end of service announcement here: https://communities.ca.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/231151574-102-1-12937/CA%20Plex%20EOS.pdf   CM First can make this transition much easier for you with a variety of service

CM First Group, a CA Technologies partner, now offers customers a robust IBM i hosting service which includes the IBM i technical infrastructure in a virtual partition and business data protection. Available 7×24, companies can access a development environment and business applications remotely.   See the full news release here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/12/prweb12408923.htm Did you like this

CM First has a business strategy based on application lifecycle management best practices; a natural alliance was to partner with AXON IVY to help customers automate processes and transform workflows better and faster. AXON IVY AXON IVY’s core product, the Axon.ivy BPM Suite, provides organizations with a single, intelligent and fully integrated process application platform

John Rhodes, CTO, CM First, presented his talk, “Technical Debt – the Secret Drain on Capacity Dollars and Performance,” to performance and capacity experts at the 2014 CMG Conference in Atlanta in November. This marked a first opportunity to discuss modernization techniques with this group of stakeholders and they expressed strong interest in the subject.

This new release had three purposes. One, to enhance the desktop experience within the browser to improve the way developers can customize and control app development. The second goal was to transform the documentation into an HTML-based system, which makes it much easier to find answers to questions and understand best practives. An additional deliverable

Fed up with the high cost and work of hosting your IBM i applications and managing the upgrades to the operating system and software packages? With IBM i and CA 2E (Synon) skillsets in short supply and the cost of managing your environment rising, it may be time to take advantage of CM First’s new

Mobile solutions are an important part of CM First’s application modernization strategy.   L-mobile is offering mobile solutions in areas like Warehouse Management, Logistics and Production, as well as Service Management and CRM. Their solutions include the mobile software as well as any necessary hardware, like mobile devices, wireless infrastructure, RFID chips and readers. L-mobile is

John Rhodes, CTO, will be highlighting the CM First modernization story at several places in November.  First, he will be presenting “Technical Debt – the Secret Drain on Capacity Dollars and Performance,” on Tuesday AM, November 4th, at the Georgia Tech Conference Center in Atlanta at CMG 2014.     The next week, November 9-12,

Many companies struggle with modernization efforts, like cloud, web and mobile, because their code doesn’t easily adapt to the new challenges.  It may be ‘brittle’ due to coding errors referred to as technical debt.  The coding language may simply not have the capabilities you need. Or your developers aren’t trained on the massive numbers of

CA 2E R8.7 is now GA, offering some great new features you can learn about on the CA support web site. CA 2E customers can get great benefit from opting for a variety of training classes offered by CM First. Learn more about education offerings here: http://www.cmfirstgroup.com/services/education/   One of the biggest challenges can be