The BCD Advantage: System i Web Development Experts and Award Winning Products

Our team comprises a group of highly trained individuals with a combined total of over 80 years of programming who use our suite of System i rapid development products that have won over 35 awards. You can count on BCD Professional Services and products to be a complete solution provider and a strategic part of your IT environment.

The BCD Professional Services team has experience designing and developing many mission-critical business web applications in a wide range of industry segments in addition to doing commercial product design. BCD is an IBM business partner, and a recognized leader with over 30 years in the IBM midrange and System i marketplace.

Award Winning Rapid Development Products

Your ROI and our productivity are maximized because we use solutions we built. These are BCD's award winning suite of rapid development products, including: WebSmart ILE, WebSmart PHP, Presto, Clover Query and Nexus Portal.

WebSmart ILE and WebSmart PHP: Rapid System i or multi-platform web app development

• Use WebSmart PHP for all platform & open source Web application development. Use WebSmart ILE for System i centric web application development.
• Both PHP & ILE editions can reuse existing back end RPG or Cobol code.
• WebSmart is used by 1,000’s of organizations.

Presto – Instant Web Enablement of Green Screen Applications
Presto extends the life of your green screen applications by instantly web enabling them with no RPG or DDS code changes required.

• Give your users browser based access to existing apps in a modern look that is easier for users to navigate.
• You have full access to the HTML code to customize screens: Add pop-up calendars, drop down lists,images, Google Maps and Graphs.
• All web enabled screens run in batch processing.

Nexus Portal – Secure, Single point of Web access
Nexus Portal gives employees, vendors and customers secure and organized access to Enterprise information through web browsers.

• Secure login and menuing system with user management. Users see only what they are authorized to.
• Framework for accessing web applications, documents and Executive Dashboards.
• Includes the ECM, a secure System i -centric store for uploading, managing, storing and searching for documents (PDF, Word, Excel, etc).
• Nexus is license free*. You pay annual maintenance only.

Clover Query – Real-Time System i Web Reports and Queries
End users and programmers design real-time System i web reports and queries in minutes.

• Write reports in minutes using templates that include totals, subtotals, level breaks, drill downs and summaries.
• Create flash charts (bar, pie, line, gauges…), KPIs and Executive Dashboards with the free SmartCharts feature.
• Export to Excel
• Unlimited user licensing

"It's been a pleasure to work with Stephanie (Stephanie Rabbani, BCD WebSmart developer) and the rest of the staff at BCD Professional Services. As our staff continue to "roll out" the 'Online Ordering and Inquiry' application, it serves to be the starting point of our supply replenishment chain throughout the organization. The new users say they love it (thank you Stephanie!)." "

Ken Doctor, Senior Programmer, Capital Health

"The initial Proof of Concept took only 6 hours to complete - this is another example of the rapid application development processes that BCD effectively employs, to the benefit of their customers."

McGrath (UniPharm)