Distributed architecture and data (mobile, web and partner-based integration), increases the challenges to handling constant change at digital speed. Synchronizing and managing projects and tasks across different teams for UI, database, security, and testing with the business is complex, even at a low rate of change.

Historically using remote or offshore resources was driven by economic factors. The constant demand for change, combined with the constant evolution of technologies in recent times, has forced companies to increase staff in different locations and even across multiple time zones, often just to meet deadlines. Now even small companies are often forced to use a distributed development team model.

These growing challenges demand real-time project and task information, digitally controlled workflow authorization, and automated code management and deployment, just to keep pace with new requirements. Without an automated system to handle these areas, continuous delivery, and therefore digital transformation, is virtually impossible.

TD/OMS is an end-to-end software change management system, designed to meet all the demands of modern development to achieve digital transformation, on IBM i and across distributed systems. TD/OMS builds upon Remain Software's decades of leading IBM i SCM tools and upon real-time integration with mainstream DevOps and open-source tools.

TD/OMS is an end-to-end software change management system, designed to meet all the demands of modern development to achieve digital transformation, on IBM i and across distributed systems. TD/OMS builds upon Remain Software's decades of leading IBM i SCM tools and upon real-time integration with mainstream DevOps and open-source tools.

The productivity difference provided by TD/OMS can be enough to affect development teams ability to reasonably increase their rate of software change significantly. In a digital economy, the rate of change requirements increases if anything.

Stuart Milligan - Thought Makers

Based in Leeds and Nottingham, Proximity has over 40 IBM i specialists who develop, support and maintain solutions and applications for a diverse range of businesses in the logistics, manufacturing, retail and finance sectors.

As part of the new partnership, Proximity will promote and distribute Remain Software change and workflow management products, TD/OMS and Gravity.

Dave Pickburn, director at Proximity said:

“We are delighted and excited to become a partner for Remain Software in the UK and Ireland and be able to offer new and existing customers additional IBM i products within our already extensive portfolio of IBM i modernization and development products. TD/OMS and Gravity provide software development teams, like ours, with the tools necessary to produce higher quality software applications faster with fewer bugs.”

"Partnering with Remain Software further strengthens our existing relationships in the IBM i marketplace, including Fresche Solutions, Zend, Shield HA, and for Infor LX and Infor BPCS ERP Software”-added Pickburn.

TD/OMS is integrated with Fresche‘s IBM i application documentation and code analysis tool, X-Analysis and Fresche View, to provide organizations with a unified software change management (SCM) product for the IBM i.

IBM i developers can also control software changes and deploy more stable PHP and RPG web applications on the IBM i through TD/OMS integration with WebSmart PHP and ILE, which are also both from Fresche.

Marco Kok, the managing director at Remain Software commented:

“Remain Software are constantly looking at ways to deliver excellence to our customers, both through our software innovations and through our partners. I’m delighted to welcome Proximity to the Remain Software global partner network. Proximity’s knowledge and expertise in the IBM i marketplace combined with Remain’s change a project management tools will provide added value to new and existing customers business-critical IBM i application development needs.”