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With immediate effect, Andreas Glomm (48) assumes the roles of Managing Director of fecher GmbH (Germany) and CTO of fecher LLC (USA). The former Head of Application Modernization will collaborate with longstanding CEO Günter Hofmann, who will increasingly focus on the commercial and sales aspects, as well as managing the company's growth. Glomm has been with the company for 24 years and has been responsible for Application Modernization since 2016.

In law enforcement, precision and efficiency are paramount. Centurion, owned by Harris, is a trusted software solution for managing Police Professional Standards data. With a rich history dating back to the late '70s, it has evolved through updates and migrations. Now, with VB6 support ending, a modernization project by fecher equips Centurion for present-day challenges, empowering law enforcement agencies for maximum efficiency.

The Asseco Group is one of Europe's leading software companies with over 32,000 employees and a presence in 60 countries. In its home country, Poland, Asseco's significant product is Infomedica, a hospital ERP with over 350 installations, developed in Gupta 20 years ago. To overcome technological limitations and attract new developers, Asseco switched to the .NET platform in 2019. Originally, they considered a complete redevelopment or a shift to a standard solution, but both options were impractical. A porting project by fecher eventually facilitated a smooth transition to a modern environment and to C#.

In the UK, Aareon is among the market leaders in software for social housing organisations for nearly twenty years. In use at more than 100 customer sites, the latest release of their housing management system was QL Version 4, a traditional client-server software solution developed in VB.NET. Aareon was in the middle of a full rewrite of their software as a browser solution when government regulations forced social housing providers to implement a cloud-first strategy. To be able to compete and remain in business, they now needed to pivot immediately and, under enormous time pressure, quickly convert their software to a cloud solution.

"In November I will officially take the last step in my career: I’ll become a retiree with a part-time job," Gerhard Schickel laughingly announced during his speech at the fecher anniversary celebration, which took place in Vienna on October 20, 2022. "It's time to pass on what we've built to a younger generation, and I'm sure our colleague Mathias will continue the business successfully." With these words, the former Head of Recruitment Solutions Gerhard Schickel hands over the management of the Recruitment Solutions division to Mathias Zecher, who has been working as an Account Manager at fecher since August 2021.

On 20.10.2022, our colleagues from Germany, Austria and Romania came together in Vienna to celebrate the 35th anniversary of fecher. Besides sightseeing, partying and touching speeches, we will all remember the team event in particular, where we had to build small machines from a few everyday objects, which were then connected and led to a chain reaction.

Story: In an Application Modernization project for Asolvi’s existing Field Service Management software Evatic, the VB6 based application is migrated to .NET and the cloud

For 20 years now, the PPJ Framework – the support library used by ported applications on .NET – has been evolving. There are also concrete plans for the next few years, which have now been summarized in a roadmap. In the webcast of December 15, fecher and the Ice Tea Group jointly presented the milestones of the PPJ Framework and its "big sister" PPJ Web.

In an interview with fecher, CEO Michael Riesner and Software Developer Simon Voggeneder from Lang Finanzsoftware GmbH report how they were able to take their application from Gupta Team Developer to .NET in a cooperative “in-house” porting project and thus prepare it for the decades to come.

In the 1990s, Microsoft Access was commonly used to create database-based applications. But today, for enterprises as well as for software vendors, Access is no longer considered the best choice for this purpose. Using a proven tool-based process, fecher creates a functionally identical application that is based on the future-proof .NET framework with C# application logic, and which is flexibly usable on all devices as it is a true browser-based app.

Amtech is the leading worldwide provider of software and hardware solutions for the corrugated manufacturing industry serving more than 600 manufacturing plants worldwide. The Imaginera software suite has been developed and deployed as an on-premise client/server solution originally built with Gupta Team Developer 4GL. With Wisej as base technology and fecher's consulting experience, Amtech has found the ideal solution for the modernization of its leading packaging-industry ERP.

Maginus has been at the forefront of e-commerce since the late 1990s and the highly diverse client list spans a range of industries and business models. Its Order Management System is internally used throughout the organization by warehouse operators, purchasing department staff, the contact center and finance departments. The modernization project conducted by fecher had to first effectively handle some unexpected challenges before the complex business software could finally be successfully migrated from Visual Basic 6 (VB6) to C# and the .NET framework.

fecher has successfully applied its tool-based migration process to Harris Local Government’s ERP solution, which consists of 16 applications. The software, originally written in Visual Basic 6, is used by municipalities, counties and water and sewer districts throughout the United States.

Personnel consultancy firms and in-house recruiting departments that are professionally involved with recruiting are already familiar with hunter. The comprehensive recruiting solution has been among the market leaders in Europe for more than two decades. Originally developed to run only on Windows, several variants were later created for mobile and cloud use as well as client-connectivity via web. The software now has cross-platform usability as a browser-app thanks to fecher's web-enabling project. In just one project, the hunter UI has not only been modernized, it is now also usable on Mac and Linux in addition to Windows and separately developed mobile and web variants are no longer needed. The complex business logic’s core did not need to be adapted.