Client Overview
Safway Services is one of the largest scaffold companies in the United States. Today Safway Services offers scaffold rental, labor services, training, engineering, inventory and project management, all in compliance with the highest safety standards.
Challenge / Issue
Due to tremendous growth, Safway Services needed to take their job costing application to the next level. As a market leader in providing scaffolding products and services, accurate and complete job cost information is critical to maintaining this leadership position.
The vast majority of enterprise applications currently run on their IBM iSeries server. Safway Services desired to continue leveraging this platform for new applications. In addition Safway Services was interested in moving towards Java and open systems development.
Centare Group Solution
Centare Group was engaged by Safway Services to create a new Java based Job Costing system, to be deployed on their iSeries server running IBM WebSphere Application Server.
Centare worked closely with the staff and management of Safway Services to design and implement a web-based Java application that replaced and extended their current job costing capabilities. Centare Group used IBM WebSphere Studio Client for iSeries for application development and implemented an IBM Rational Application Developer to maintain the application.
Client Benefits
- Installed and configured WebSphere on the iSeries
- Created a job costing application and deployed it to WebSphere
- Provided mentoring to Safway Services staff on Java development techniques and best practices
About Centare Group
Founded in 1999, Centare Group is a software development consulting firm with 35 employees headquartered in Brookfield, Wis. It has developed software solutions for clients around the world and was recently named to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Centare Group is recognized by Milwaukee Magazine as one of Southeastern Wisconsin’s Best Places to Work and is listed as a Top 10 Small Business by the Waukesha County Chamber of Commerce. Centare Group CEO Dave Glyzewski was also selected as a 2008 Bravo! Entrepreneur Award winner by the Small Business Times. The firm concentrates its efforts in:
- Software development using .NET, Java/J2EE and Actuate technologies
- Business process improvement
- Systems integration
- Mobile solutions development
- Strategic technology assessments
- Training and implementation of agile software development practices