News & Events
06.02.2010 CLEARBLADE SELECTED AS EGL OPEN INNER-CIRCLE PARTNER
ClearBlade, an Austin, TX-based consulting company specializing in Enterprise Modernization, is pleased to announce its selection by IBM to participate as an inner-circle member of the EGL Open Eclipse.org open source development project.
"The release of the EGL technology to the open source community is a very strategic step forward by IBM. It demonstrates IBM's commitment to creating a ubiquitous platform independent model that businesses can rely on for years to come. IBM's technology in this area is unparalleled. This significant announcement is exactly the move needed to push EGL into the mainstream development community. ClearBlade is honored to be an integral part of the overall strategy and direction moving forward," said Eric Simone, CEO of ClearBlade.
06.02.2010 CLEARBLADE NAMES MAURIE JAMES CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
ClearBlade, an Austin, TX-based consulting company specializing in Enterprise Optimization, has promoted Maurie James to Chief Operations Officer. Ms. James joined ClearBlade in March 2008 as Vice President of Operations and has helped engineer ClearBlade's significant growth over the past 2 years.
"We are very excited to promote Maurie to our executive team. She has been an integral part of ClearBlade's early development and will continue to be a key component as we expand our business. Maurie will be responsible for overseeing ClearBlade's growth over the next several years as we ramp-up our solutions and delivery capacity," said Eric Simone, CEO of ClearBlade.
05.05.2010 CLEARBLADE HIRES CORBY JAMES AS PRESIDENT
ClearBlade, a leading provider of expert consulting in the enterprise optimization and modernization space, announced today that it has hired Corby James as President.
"We are very pleased to add Corby James to the ClearBlade executive team. Corby brings a wealth of knowledge to the Enterprise Optimization business," said Eric Simone, CEO of ClearBlade. "He will be instrumental in helping us execute our strategy and continue expand our business over the next several years."
06.01.2009 CLEARBLADE, ASCENDANT TECHNOLOGY, & IBM TEAM UP FOR FIRST RTCz SALE WORLDWIDE
ClearBlade leads way in modernizing large city government to EGL in first RTCz win worldwide. IBM engaged ClearBlade - the leading IBM partner in Enterprise Modernization with EGL - early in 2009 to strengthen the case for EGL. ClearBlade spent three weeks on site with the city to conduct an EGL pilot then turned a good opportunity for the city into a great one by introducing Rational Team Concert for System z. The stakeholders were impressed by the value RTCz brings to its software delivery team, while RTC's seamless integration with EGL made it a perfect modernization play. The win represents the first ever RTCz sale worldwide.
04.26.2009 CLEARBLADE EGL SESSION AT COMMON ANNUAL MEETING
ClearBlade will present at Common's 2009 Annual Meeting & Exposition with "Modernizing with IBM's Enterprise Generation Language" An hour plus session providing attendees with an overview of IBM's new business language, Enterprise Generation Language, how to reduce the gap between legacy and modern applications by providing a smoother transition from legacy code, and understand how the talent of your existing staff can easily transition to EGL development.
03.15.2009 METRO MIDRANGE SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION ONE-DAY SEMINAR
"IBM's New Business Language, EGL" will be presented by ClearBlade on May 15, 2009 at the Dallas IBM Innovation Center. Understand why IBM has created Enterprise Generation Language. This session will show how EGL can provide you with a strategic advantage by allowing your business to create more modern systems while leveraging existing code assets through re-use. This session includes a demonstration of calling/debugging an iSeries RPG program from EGL and case studies.
01.19.2009 "MIGRATING VAGEN APPLICATIONS TO EGL" Webcast
ClearBlade and IBM's "Migrating VAGen applications to EGL" Webcast held Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 available for download.
03.07.2008 CLEARBLADE TO PRESENT IN ATECH'S ZEN MASTER SERIES
Hosted by Ascendant Technology, in their second Zen Master session of 2008, join Hayden Lindsey of IBM and Eric Simone of ClearBlade on WED 03.19 1pm CST as they discuss real examples of these challenges and how Rational Business Developer and Host Access Transformation System (HATS) addresses them in concrete ways.
Gain insight and perspective on today's challenges to modernization, an introduction to HATS & RBD, and how to build your custom modernization strategy. The presentation will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.
02.18.2008 MAURIE JAMES JOINS CLEARBLADE TEAM
ClearBlade is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Maurie James to head operations for the company. Her responsibilities will include overseeing delivery of high-quality solutions & services, in aligning appropriate ClearBlade resources and logistics to ensure client objectives and expectations are exceeded. Maurie has over 21 years of experience in systems engineering and software development. Prior to joining ClearBlade, she served as Division Director for Noblestar, and was responsible for the profit and loss and business management for all Western division operations. She managed the business development, client relationships, and staffing and was responsible for year after year growth.
07.07.2007 CLEARBLADE & ASCENDANT ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Ascendant Technology, a leading provider of SOA, portal and business integration solutions, and ClearBlade LLC, a leading provider of modernization and migration solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to provide Enterprise Modernization consulting services utilizing IBM's best of breed Rational suite of software products. Specifically, ClearBlade will be focused on providing technology assessment, migration, and development services for transforming of legacy applications to IBM's Enterprise Generation Language (EGL).