OSSAC offers you the following services
- Consulting services for deployment and use of Open Systems hardware and software
- Training and support during the implementation phase of such systems
- Implementation of IT projects based on ITIL
- Long-term contracts and service level agreements for the maintenance of applications, operating systems and databases
- Support for the migration of IT projects to/from midrange systems
Open VMS support and consulting >>
This service includes, but is not limited to the following tasks:
- Planning of data centers
- Consulting services for the preparation of invitation to tender for IT hardware and software
- Planning of complex IT structures
- Monitoring of systems
- Implementation of performance monitoring including periodical reports
- Adaptation of system parameters according to the performance monitoring results
- Assistance to the first line support in resolving operational errors originating from hardware and operating system failures
Database management and design >>
This service focuses primarily on Oracle RDB and MySQL running on OpenVMS servers. It includes the following tasks:
- Database design and management
- Development and implementation of backup and data integrity concepts
- Reorganization and optimization of databases
- Monitoring and performance tuning of databases and RMS based index sequential files
- Assistance to the first, second and third line support for database management tasks
- Import and export of data to/from relational databases
Application development and maintenance >>
One of the main focal points of OSSAC is the development and maintenance of customer specific applications for the industry. This service concentrates on the following points:
- Application design based on industry standard methods
- Design of data structures and interfaces to external systems
- Programming, debugging and testing of the code
- Internal and external documentation
- Adaptation and redesign of existing software
- Migration of existing software to new hardware including hardware simulators like CharonVAX and CharonAlpha
- Maintenance of existing and legacy systems
- Design and implementation of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Service Level Requirements (SLR)
- Keep alive and keep it running of legacy systems
