Corporate Background
Corporate Overview
Since its incorporation in 1982, Menlo Business Systems has been equated with technical excellence and entrepreneurial innovation. Menlo excels at deploying new technologies for business solutions that increase user productivity, user satisfaction and application functionality. Providing the most technically advanced solutions for application development, Menlo's product offering increases productivity and improves quality throughout the application life cycle.
Menlo:
- provides the architecture and application development technology for organizations to leverage their existing investment to produce high-quality, robust client/server or traditional computing solutions
- has been implementing low-cost, low-risk client/server applications since 1982 and has a proven track record for designing and developing applications and extensions to existing applications
- brings the full power of desktop computing to OLTP host applications - from advanced terminal emulation to file transfer and cross-platform client/server environments, Menlo empowers organizations to take advantage of their diverse computing environments
- has been the leader in Macintosh connectivity for nearly a decade and is leveraging that expertise in other desktop computing environments, including DOS, UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Power PC
Market
In today's computing environment, IS is faced with many new challenges: downsizing, global integration, heterogeneous environments, diverse operating systems, and changing technologies. Applications must be transportable across platforms and organizations while delivering optimal performance - today and into the future.
Today, the people who require software and hardware integration face a fast-growing dilemma. As their needs evolve, they naturally want better performance. But increasingly, they have to watch technologies come and go because they cannot evaluate and integrate them fast enough. They also face the risk of losing sight of the technologies they already have, ending up with ones that do not work well with each other or provide no clear growth path.
In this electronic age, the ability to provide instant-response information processing is the key to keeping businesses alive in a very competitive environment. Markets have become electronic and invisible. Basic business operations depend on information technology that enables them to transact across organizational and national boundaries.
To stay competitive, companies must leverage their existing investments by quickly integrating today's new technologies with the assurance of upgrading to tomorrow's. These companies will be able to compete in the emerging global marketplace.
Product Overview
By anticipating customer's hidden needs resulting from the many new challenges they face, Menlo Business Systems provides the tools to stay competitive in the diversified environments of today and tomorrow. Menlo provides a full range of products for the enterprise's computing environment, including:
Business Markets
Menlo's comprehensively designed architecture can integrate a variety of applications from different sources into one controlled platform. These sources include multi-vendor applications, in-house developed applications, and third-party software. Now financial, manufacturing, human resources, inventory, telecommunications, and other industry applications can run in a common framework.
Menlo's Competitive Advantage
To maintain a competitive advantage, organizations must respond quickly and decisively to change. Whether meeting time-critical operational or regulatory needs, or responding to competitive opportunities in the marketplace, an organization's system must be flexible enough to adapt to this changing technological environment.
Menlo's architecture, framework and standards streamline applications so that changes can be done quickly and easily. Menlo provides an open, extensible environment, inter-operability and consistent user interface for high-quality, high-productivity on-line applications. From the analysis and design phase, through development, implementation, and maintenance, Menlo ensures successful solutions while allowing organizations to take advantage of new technology.
Menlo's Solutions
Full Life-Cycle, Integrated Solutions
Menlo provides an open, extensible environment, inter-operability and consistent user interface for high-quality, high-productivity on-line applications. From the analysis and design phase, through development, implementation, and maintenance, Menlo ensures successful solutions while allowing organizations to take advantage of new technology.
Leading-edge Client/Server Solutions
One of the most important challenges facing IT managers is the need to enable applications running in a variety of environments on a variety of desktops, servers, and mainframes -- with cooperative interaction. Users are demanding the power of desktop workstations with access to server and network data. To address this challenge, more and more organizations are transitioning their computing environment to a client/server architecture. Client/server solutions take advantages of both environments while preserving existing investments in hardware, software, and resources.
To support users requiring a client/server approach, Menlo's products provide an architecture on which to build application-specific client services. Further, the products are based on standards and methodology, automating the design and construction of application components.
Transparent Data Integration
Today, users process information from a variety of different sources using different data connections. Information may reside on mainframes or file servers which may be connected via modems, Wide or Local Area Networks, or asynchronously.
Menlo products tie local and host information together in a combined presentation. In this fully integrated environment, users can now focus on manipulating data, not simply accessing it. Menlo is committed to addressing emerging standards for network-based services.
Multi-Media
The availability of multi-media on the desktop has fueled a recognition of its value to enterprise computing. Centrally controlled, but locally available, document images, graphs, pictures, sound, and video add significant value to traditional application "data." Menlo provides both the information services and presentation facilities to effectively integrate, manage, and manipulate all types of application information.
Professional Services
Bringing your on-line and Intranet/Internet solutions into the next decade requires more than advanced software products. Menlo provides a broad range of industry services to meet each customer's unique objectives. Whether you require SQL database design or application development, Menlo can either support your team or tailor a turnkey business solution to your exact requirements.
Menlo provides complete life cycle support, including requirements definition, functional design specifications, development, implementation, documentation, training and maintenance. Project planning and management are available at each step to ensure control and conformance to overall project requirements.
Menlo has a consistent track record of successful accomplishments in client-server and application development with the expertise and experience to help your organization take advantage of these new technologies cost-effectively and with minimal risk.
Proven Leadership
Menlo maintains an extensive research and development program to seek new ways to increase productivity gains offered by existing and new product lines. Menlo provides customers with the most advanced, future-oriented solutions available.
Since Menlo's incorporation, the company has maintained a standard of excellence in customer satisfaction. Our goal is for our customers to be successful in all their business application needs.
