SilverDev is a solution for modernizing IBM i applications that provides graphical interfaces while preserving the reliability of the IBM i platform. It allows developing Windows-like applications using RPG in a fraction of the time compared to traditional green screen development. SilverDev reduces costs and improves user productivity by optimizing application navigation and interface design. It is a flexible solution that can capitalize on existing IBM i investments while generating a high return on investment over the long term.

1. Modernize Your IBM i
User Experience

2. Boost Your Productivity with SilverDev
The Stakes of Modernization for IBM i Shops
Anticipate – Opt for a Lasting Solution
• Ensure the Reliability of Your IBM i Over the Long Term
• In-depth Modernization of Your Applications
• Reduce Your TCO!
Improve Profitability - Let Your Users Focus on Your Core
Business
• Save Time for Your Users
• Upgrade With Flexible Applications
• Generate incomparable ROI!
Capitalize - Reduce Your Investment Costs
• Capitalize on Your IBM i Platform
• Capitalize on Your Legacy Applications
• Capitalize on Your Know-how
Create - Graphical Applications in Seconds!
• Graphical RPG IV Development
• SilverDev : Product Functions
Success Story - ES-Concept chooses SilverDev for
its Client: SIEM
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3. The Stakes of Modernization for IBM i Shops
Modernizing 5250 applications has competitive edge?
become a major concern for many It is the whole issue of back-office productivity
companies, but the solutions available that is in the balance here. Modernizing
often represent a dilemma: is it best to applications is a crucial decision that should
preserve the reliability of existing hardware be guided by profitability: the Added Value of
and management processes or to opt for a solution is measured by the ROI that it can
a different solution that offers the flexibility generate.
required to maintain the company’s
So Why Choose at All?
SilverDev is designed to provide a real alternative to the
modernization solutions for your IBM i, while bringing
performance and competitiveness to companies.
"SilverDev : Offer your users the flexibility
of a lasting and innovative solution"
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4. Anticipate
Opt for a Lasting Solution
You can’t see the point of investing in a “temporary” solution? Well,
neither can we! SilverDev is designed to last: it is a unique solution that
combines the reliability of System i with your most essential
management requirements.
Ensure the Reliability of Your IBM i Over the Long Term
Having been developed to preserve the major qualities of the IBM i platform, the SilverDev solution
is guaranteed not to become obsolete in just three years!
• Centralized Applications
SilverDev makes fastidious application development
unnecessary: it keeps IBM i’s centralization concept,
ensuring the stability required for your management We are using SilverDev since
system. 2006. It has completely
changed the way we build
• RPG IV ILE applications. We can now make
real Windows applications, in
RPG ILE is a robust, modern and productive language. RPG, with all the advantages of
It is highly scalable and now integrates new functions the IBM i. Silverdev is easy to
such as modular programming, free format, new install, easy to learn, and makes
integrated functions, as well as being open to fast running applications on the
languages like C, xml and Java… A true guarantee of iSeries, without any deployment
reliability and stability for your “business” management to the workstations. Try it.
rules.
• Instant Communication Bernard LAVOIE
ROBOVER (Canada)
Thanks to its own TCP/IP server optimized for
application execution*, SilverDev makes the most of
the essential speed potential of the 5250.
* 30ms/request on average, which is 20 times faster than a web browser!
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5. Anticipate
Opt for a Lasting Solution
In-depth Modernization of Your Applications
I n te rfa c e
SilverDev does not just apply a
surface graphic layer to the 5250.
It designs the graphic interface and
navigation of your applications:
modernization is thorough, providing real
Added Value to your Information System. N a vi g a ti o n
Reduce Your TCO!
Choosing SilverDev represents Bringing real Added Value to the
savings of at least 50% over modernization of your IBM i while preserving the
uncontested advantages of the platform: this is
1 0 years on Client/Server the unique combination that makes SilverDev
or Webfacing the only lasting modernization solution.
solutions! Why waste your time on a solution that has to
be updated every two years: SilverDev finally
allows long-term anticipation, while reducing
your TCO considerably.
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6. Improve Profitability
Let Your Users Focus on Your Core Business
Far beyond merely modernizing the graphic interface, SilverDev
reduces the usage time of IBM i applications at all levels and increases
user productivity significantly.
Save Time for Your Users
The time spent on your management applications thoroughly. No more waster time
applications is the cornerstone of user for your users! They will have instant access to
productivity. By optimizing not only their information and will at last be able to
interface, but also the navigation system, concentrate on the most essential tasks: your
SilverDev revolutionizes the ergonomics of your core business.
Windows interface
"Click, drag, drop"
Event navigation
Rich graphic components
Intuitive and quick to learn
Incomparable rapidity of the
SilverDev TCP/IP server
"SilverDev is unique in the IBM i world in that development starts from
the point of view of the user"
- Alex Woodie pour IT Jungle
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7. Improve Profitability
Let Your Users Focus on Your Core Business
Upgrade With Flexible Applications
Forget the monolithic framework of the 5250. Open the doorway to new possibilities to
Your applications can now be adapted to your upgrade your management processing along
most specific needs with incomparable with your activities.
flexibility on the IBM i platform.
This new option replaces fifteen 5250 screens, 4
menu options and all the business rules were Program in just a few clicks
retrieved from existing sources. The 1 0 regular users
of these options, who now have PCs with two Design function-rich
screens are delighted. applications
Jean-Yves LE PATEZOUR Optimize maintenance time
LP Consultant
Generate incomparable ROI!
By optimizing development requirements as well as application use
requirements, SilverDev innovates by generating ROI throughout your Back-
Office.
Save up to 3 days' work
per user every year! *
* Calculation based on server response time savings and navigation time optimization
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8. Capitalize
Reduce Your Investment Costs
SilverDev extends the possibilities of your application portfolio. Discover
a flexible solution that releases the power of System i without its
downsides: a unique alternative, that offers your information system
high Added Value while boosting its performance.
Capitalize on Your Existing Systems
No need to turn towards expensive, time- management portfolio attains its highest
consuming solutions to bring about change. possible level of performance, boosting your
With SilverDev, the whole of your competitive advantage.
SilverDev has enabled us to offer two types of service:
the production of user-friendly and effective data and
statistics extraction tools and the modernization of
existing management applications that now enjoy the
ergonomics of a graphic version, without losing the
users’ input reflexes, thereby optimizing productivity.
SilverDev combines ease and flexibility of production
with the robustness and security of system i, and has
won over all our entire team of programmers of all
ages, as well as our clients.
Marie-Line Manchon
WMG France
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9. Capitalize
Reduce Your Investment Costs
Le g a c y
Ap p l i c a ti o n s
K n o w-
h ow
I BM i
P l a tfo rm
IBM i Platform
Renowned for its reliability and stability, IBM i is undoubtedly the ideal system for business
management. SilverDev does not question this. On the contrary, by conserving application
centralization on your IBM i, SilverDev releases its performance potential.
Legacy Applications
Your data, which represent genuine intangible value for the company, are preserved and
protected. Your “business” applications are thus optimized in their "screens" part (DSPF) without
involving fastidious rewriting of your management rules, which are the foundations of your
Information System.
Know-how
Capitalize on the knowledge of your current teams! By keeping RPG as the programming language,
SilverDev not only avoids having to re-train your teams in new languages, but also avoids having to
“translate” all your applications.
Known for its robustness and its "management" specialization, RPG is undoubtedly the language that
reduces maintenance time the most. Why waste time on unnecessary work?
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10. Create
Graphical Applications in Seconds!
SilverDev is both simple and powerful, enabling the design of user
graphic interfaces with traditional Windows components. With
SilverDev, you can offer your users all the comforts of Windows
applications without losing the uncontested advantages of System i.
Graphical RPG IV Development
1 Drag & drop
Interfaces are created with an intuitive, easy-to-
use graphic tool
More user-friendly than green screens: SilverDev uses the Windows
interface
Simpler than green screens: screens are design using the mouse
2
Overview: SilverDev form designer
RPG IV language
The programming language is RPG IV either with PDM, or with the SilverDev IDE
Simpler than a DSPF: programming logic is based on events. You just "react" to events (mouse click, etc.)
More flexible than a DSPF: interface component properties can be modified dynamically (color, font,
position, etc.)
3 Execution
Applications are available to users immediately
Simpler than a client/server system: applications are not deployed on user workstations
More stable and secure than a client/server system: applications run on System i
Faster than a web browser: the interface is optimised for management applications
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11. Create
Graphical Applications in Seconds!
SilverDev: Product Functions
• Optimised TCP/IP server radio button, tick box, list box, status bar, etc.
• Centralization on System i • Date, tab sheet, graph, picture components
• Automatic conversion of character sets • « TrayIcon », « Timer » components
(EBCDIC/ASCII) • Standard Windows dialogue box components
• Automatic caching of windows and pictures • Skin component
• Remote, browserless connection (LAN/WAN) • Drop-down menus, pop ups, etc.
• Management of application access rights • MDI windows
• Event-driven RPG IV programming • Drag and drop
• Graphic IDE (source editor, compilation, debugging...) • File transfer functions (upload and download)
• Context-specific help • Launch of applications on the PC from the RPG
• Windows ergonomics and user-friendliness • Print module included in the product
• « Sub-file » component • Export to Excel & PDF, sending of e-mails
• Numeric field component supporting « Edit Code » • TWAIN scanner management
• « Tree structure » component (Tree View) • Access to third party DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server,
• Standard Windows components: button, combo box, etc.)
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12. Success Story
ES-Concept Chooses SilverDev for its Client: SIEM
“After more than two years’ use, it is difficult to remember the exact
circumstances of this project’s implementation: it all went so smoothly
and without a hitch .”
Those Involved
ES-Concept (Switzerland) SIEM (France)
Software publisher and Production, treatment and
application developer distribution of drinking water
The Project
User requirements Technical requirements
• Elimination of the “green screens” that had • New modeling product approach, while
been part of the company since 1 992 keeping the familiar development languages
• Work harmonization with PC tools and • Possibility of improving the existing application
functions via a simplified interface with the PC universe
• Desire to improve the graphic interface
• Simplification of exchanges between
iSeries and PC
The Objectives
• To replace existing display files with SilverDev screens, while preserving the philosophy of the
application software to avoid causing operational difficulties on software that had been used
for 6 years already
• To integrate the graphic functions that had previously been difficult to run
How ?
• A single person carried out the study, analysis and development of the 467 display files in
just 70 days.
• A representative committee of users tested and validated the new application during
the course of its development.
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13. Success Story
ES-Concept Chooses SilverDev for its Client: SIEM
Results
Traditional menu of the old application The same menu with SilverDev
The Strong Points of SilverDev: Testimonials
Scalability Adaptability
“Improvements have been made regularly "Thanks to the flexibility offered by SilverDev,
since its implementation and other changes development was adapted as progress was made
are in the pipeline. The scalability of SilverDev to enable delivery of a tool to match user
enables constant progress, without calling the requirements and our activity."
fundamentals into question.”
Managing Director
“By adjusting to our needs, SilverDev enabled us to optimize
the quality and rapidity of our work. It is a product with
multiple possibilities, fulfilling both our constant needs and our
many, various requirements.”
Administrative Director
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14. Experia, Specialized in IBM i for More Than 20 Years
In the heart of Europe, located between Lyon
and Geneva, Experia is specialized in software
publishing for the IBM system i environment.
The company was founded in 1 991 and
develops Software Engineering tools and
proposes language training courses and client
project assistance solutions.
Among the various solutions proposed by
Experia, the GEODE computer-aided software
environment or the LOREA application
enrichment tool have been major contributors
to the company’s reputation.
They rely on SilverDev
Robover Infitex Pepsico IDT ONEA
Canada France France French Polynesia Burkina Faso
NIKKO Bank Logiam Datasphere Orangina-Schweppes
Luxembourg France Switzerland France
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15. Try SilverDev today!
On-line Demo For more information
Download our tutorials
• Quick Start
Interactive SilverDev demo
How to install and set up
for your files and programs SilverDev on your system
with our Development Lab
• Wizard Tutorial
How to create a first program
with the wizard
• Classic Development
Reserve your on-line demo
How to create a first
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16. We were not interested in setting about an extensive revamping
project, involving major investments and taking up large amounts of our
hardware resources. [...]
In just one and half months, SilverDev enabled us to provide our
technical zone managers with a contract management application
that had been enriched graphically, was visually appealing and
functional, and took into account our existing IT systems and without
painstaking deployment on client workstations.
Raymond MONGAI
Igloo Post-Mix (Orangina-Schweppes / Pepsico)
Contact us
EXPERIA
FRANCE
www.silverdev.com
info@silverdev.com