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alchemysolutions.com is the site for all things related to the Alchemy Solutions legacy modernization solutions and associated products.

al·che·my (\'al-kə-mē\ ) — a power or process of transforming something common into something special (Merriam-Webster’s).

The Alchemy Solutions mission is to provide organizations with solutions that help them integrate their legacy applications with the latest technologies (currently the .NET Framework and Visual Studio) while also giving those organizations big savings by moving off expensive mainframe platforms – making what might have seemed common or ordinary on the mainframe into special opportunity-enabling applications on Windows. Alchemy Solutions is an independent software vendor.

Our products, NeoKicks, NeoBatch, NeoSort and NeoData integrate with the NetCOBOL for .NET compiler to provide modernization options for bringing mission critical CICS and batch applications to the.NET environment. We help companies make big savings by migrating their applications off expensive mainframes.

Alchemy Solutions is the distributor, outside Japan, of the Fujitsu NetCOBOL family of runtime-free COBOL compilers. Fujitsu has been developing COBOL compilers since the mid 1960’s, starting on Fujitsu mainframes, progressing onto UNIX machines and, by the 1990’s, onto Microsoft Windows. Fujitsu is dominant in the Japanese market and made it’s entry to the US and the rest of the world with its Fujitsu COBOL for Windows product in 1995. The products have made a strong impact in this market because of their high performance and exceptional levels of production quality. Worldwide there are over half a million mission-critical, production applications that rely on Fujitsu’s COBOL compiler technology and run-time support.

The Alchemy Solutions team recognized the value of Microsoft’s .NET Framework at an early stage so was able to demonstrate an early prototype of COBOL support of .NET at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference 2000 when .NET was first announced. Fujitsu was the only COBOL vendor to release a compiler producing native .NET MSIL code when .NET was released, and continues to lead the COBOL world in .NET-supporting features and utilities. Our solutions were first developed by the Alchemy Solutions team when it was part of Fujitsu Computer Systems and grew out of Fujitsu’s long association and experience with COBOL.

Alchemy Solutions is led by Ron Langer, COO and Group President. Ron was instrumental in the founding of Alchemy Solutions, recognizing the benefits that would be realized by both customers and products by having a company with a single, focused vision. Having been closely involved in the production of application development tools for over two decades, Ron brings a wealth of experience and vision to Alchemy Solutions. When part of Fujitsu Computer Systems, Ron led the group to create a set of products that deliver highly attractive modernize-as-you-migrate solutions. NetCOBOL for .NET, NeoKicks, NeoBatch, NeoSort, and NeoData have all been produced this millennium through Ron’s drive and vision for the future of legacy applications. Before joining Fujitsu, Ron worked at IBM for 14 years as a product architect for Debug Tools, IBM mainframe debugger as well as in product marketing.

Dr. Basim Kadhim, Chief Technology Officer, was the chief software architect in the creation of the NetCOBOL for .NET, NeoBatch, NeoSort and NeoData products and their integration to Visual Studio. He represented Fujitsu on the ECMA working group for the standardization of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), which represents the underpinnings of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Basim manages the technical vision, development and support of the Alchemy Solutions products.

Contacting Alchemy Solutions.

Sales or General Queries:

• Email: cobol@netcobol.com
• Fax: (541) 389-9579
• Mailing/physical address:
  550 NW Franklin Ave, Suite 358
  Bend, OR 97701
• Address for payments:
  Dept. # 1545
  Alchemy Solutions, Inc.
  P.O. Box 11407
  Birmingham, AL 35246-1545