Cincom Smalltalk™ Professional Services

Even experienced Smalltalkers need help from time to time!

You don’t need to go it alone. Call Cincom Professional Services—your performance partner that’s been maximizing productivity through services and support for over 40 years. You can contact Jim Hazel, Manager, Cincom Consulting Services, at +1 513-612-2118.

Product Upgrades − Don’t risk a critical upgrade to a learn-as-you-go, in-house approach. Our senior consultants know the small, impossible-to-document steps that make the difference between an unresolved task and a completed process.

Whether you have been successfully using Cincom VisualWorks or Cincom ObjectStudio®, an Assessment of the environment, interfacing systems and available resources provides you with a reliable estimate of effort and cost for the upgrade itself, and includes a report on your Cincom Smalltalk application environment and the steps needed to upgrade to the current product release.

Mentoring − It’s easy to learn the basics of installing and using Cincom Smalltalk. However, the most productive use of this sophisticated, pure object-oriented application development suite is achieved best through customized mentoring that is developed to meet your needs at your level of experience.

Troubleshooting − Whether it’s identifying and resolving a processing glitch or improving a performance drag, we have experts who can work with you remotely and/or on-site to re-create the problem and then provide an alternative viable approach.

Performance Enhancement − Cincom Smalltalk development environments provide a wide range of functionality. But we human beings tend to lock in the capabilities we know and miss out on the performance ability of those dimensions of the tool we don’t know.

A performance-enhancement service reveals how a team is using Cincom Smalltalk, which aspects of the tool they are not using and how they could energize so many more existing capabilities.

This service is shaped to meet specific customer needs with defined objectives, clearly delineated areas to review and documented results and recommendations.

Migrations − Cincom Services can move your application suite from Visual Smalltalk® Enterprise or VA Smalltalk development platforms to the most productive Cincom Smalltalk programming environment, giving you fully scalable web-based and client-server development enhancements. With connectivity to all major relational databases, object databases and internet standard protocols, we can give you a complete solution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris.

Proof of Concept − Not sure if VisualWorks or ObjectStudio is the tool you need? An on-site proof of concept using your data and meeting your business goals will provide that last element of confirmation. There are four key ingredients in any successful proof of concept:

• A defined limited scope of effort – Large enough to provide the confirmation you seek but small enough to not waste time or resources.
• A project plan with established success criteria – The proof will be conducted like a mini project with clearly predefined and agreed-upon success criteria, ensuring that at project completion, the tool meets your goals.
• Committed resources – From you, the customer, and Cincom Services. By working together, you will experience the power of the tool firsthand.
• Committed time and dollars – Deciding on a tool to achieve business success requires a serious effort.

Transitioning from Envy to Store − Whether in conjunction with a full product upgrade or separately, we will transition your application from using Envy to the newer, more complete Cincom Smalltalk source code control solution and provide initial training on the tool for your staff.

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Smalltalk Podcasts

James Robertson, Cincom Smalltalk™ Product Evangelist, hosts the "Industry Misinterpretations" podcast each week with Michael Lucas-Smith and David Buck. This podcast covers all things Smalltalk, including the latest in object-oriented application development news involving ObjectStudio, VisualWorks, Seaside, Web Velocity and more.

Visit the "Industry Misinterpretations" page to listen to past podcasts and sign up to be alerted when new podcasts are posted.

Smalltalk Video Demonstrations

James Robertson, the Cincom Smalltalk™ Product Evangelist, has put together a series of short Smalltalk video demos. These videos cover Smalltalk tips, tricks, demos and how-to information for ObjectStudio, VisualWorks, Seaside, Web Velocity and other Smalltalk-related products.

Visit the Smalltalk Videos page to check out the viewing list.

Smalltalk Daily

Smalltalk Daily is a regular screencast done by James Robertson, the Cincom Smalltalk Product Evangelist. If you are looking for Smalltalk help, or for a Smalltalk Tutorial, visit the Smalltalk Daily page.

The Smalltalk Blogosphere

Did you know that there are a whole host of Smalltalk blogs out on the web? The thriving community of Smalltalk developers and fans is blogging about everything under the object-oriented development umbrella. Get the latest thoughts, news, and tips about Smalltalk, ObjectStudio, VisualWorks, Seaside, Web Velocity, and more by visiting our Smalltalk Blogs page.

Of particular interest are the Product Evangelist’s Blog and the Product Manager’s Blog.

Cincom Smalltalk™ Developer Program

The object of the Cincom Smalltalk Developer Program is to create a community that allows Cincom Smalltalk developers to participate in the ongoing development of the Cincom Smalltalk system.

Currently, the program offers the following benefits to developers:

• Access to all internal builds (via ftp)
• Access to ftp-based update mechanism for contributions
• A subscription to the vw-dev engineering mailing list
• Access to "works in progress"
• Access to various product updates
• A voice in the direction of ongoing product development

To enroll, visit the Cincom Smalltalk Developer Program page.