RPTA Fact Sheet

Harkins & Associates, Inc. Background

Some of the primary benefits of working with Harkins & Associates, Inc. include:

IBM Registered Business Partner
Brings together decades of IBM Senior Systems Engineer experience, as well as external consulting for IBM systems
Experience authoring six major IBM application products used worldwide, including global support
Extensive experience in range of corporate programming languages, eg RPG, COBOL, CL, PL/1, JCL, Assembler, FORTRAN
Detailed understanding of full IT ecosystem: application design, implementation, migration, maintenance, support, application enhancements
Advisory for strategic direction of IT systems and subsequent implementation: executive-level consulting and education

Patented, innovative software tool
Successful installations in small to multi-billion dollar corporations, with programmer numbers ranging from 2 to 50
Versatility: Works on both in-house source code and vendor applications
A video-camera like recording of what is happening inside every executing program: documents source code making it easily understandable for all future programmers; enables real-time analytics; produces unattended audit log with time stamp; and eliminates need for programmer debugging
Multiple use cases: program development, program maintenance and process improvement, system migration, change management, DevOps, testing,
Provides real-time search function, like Google for your source code
Current product languages include RPG, COBOL, CL, patent is for all computer languages
Useful for external consultants and in-house programmers

Huge productivity gains: dramatically reduces time needed to understand code and address maintenance issues and problems
Simplifies programming, development, and DevOps/testing process: solve problems and bring new products to market faster
Roi: Fast gains in process/service improvement
Dramatically reduced IT costs
Easy to implement
Gives programmer instant knowledge of what is happening in the program
Reduced learning curve for new staff
Easier maintenance and modernization of applications
Reduced risk of lost business due to application downtime
Improved application reliability/availability
Traceability and security