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History
Tegratecs Development Corp. was originally founded in 1985 as an Illinois corporation under a different name. We first started operations in Schaumburg, IL, a suburb of Chicago, in 1986 as Information Consultants, Inc.
Our focus was in customizing and enhancing business application software running on IBM S/38 and AS/400 midrange computers for SMB in the midwest area. We pride ourselves in making incremental changes, which in the great majority of cases has provided great value and ROI to our customers when compared to rip and replace strategies. We have worked in quite an impressive list of applications over the years including distribution,
accounting, manufacturing, health care and professional services...
In 1988, we entered into an agreement with a software company to support their application packages and eventually to take on derivative works.
In the 1990s through the 2000s, we branched into extracts and integration work, tackling projects such as CaseMix data feeds, nursing acuity monitoring, reporting to microfiche, database consolidation, power-dialing, collections extracts, accounting interfaces, data conversions, hazardous materials by location and date reporting and USPS manifest.
In 1992, we announced the Financial Portrait Software System for nationwide availability, with General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable applications. The package was designed as a tightly integrated group that can be implemented in a turn-key go-live event, but the applications are available separately (to facilitate a best of breed approach to software applications). Other big news in 1992, was our first purchase of an IBM AS/400 for internal use.
In 1995, we moved into new offices at 1320 Tower Road in Schaumburg, IL. In 1998, we put out v3 of Financial Portrait Software System. During the late 1990s and early 2000s we did a lot of package upgrade work related to HIPPA.
In 2001, we purchased a new IBM iSeries server, eventually retiring it after 16 years, and along the way upgrading the IBM i5/OS three times, and maxing out the memory and 1/4 tape drive, replacing the disks in order to do RAID 5. She still works, at least the last time we fired it up!
In 2003, we finished our second versions of an integrated packaging selection algorithm and ship via selection algorithm for a distributor.
At the end of 2005, we finished implementation of our first customer on v4 of the Financial Portrait Software System, which featured integration with a desktop smartclient at the presentation layer, and a lot of new features and improvements, including complete matching infrastructure in Accounts Payable. In the smartclient area itself, we included a Windows CAB deployment option via ActiveX for use with Windows XP, allowing the admin or specifically authorized personnel to automatically pull down FP custom repository updates from a Tegratecs Windows 2003 Server and to automatically replace the active repository on the customer PC.
In the latter 2000s, we started doing technical presentations for user groups in the Chicagoland area and around the country for COMMON.
In 2008, we began building websites with Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms Framework using a 3rd party Visual Studio version and Visual RPG for .NET from ASNA, which featured RLA to iSeries Db2 (along with SQL).
In 2009, we finished integrating with 3 banks for Positive Pay functions in Financial Portrait A/P, using sftp over SSH directly from the IBM iSeries (and using no other hardware or 3rd party software licenses).
In 2010, we finished the Financial Portrait v4 upgrade process with the majority of our customers on the Financial Portrait Maintenance Plan.
By mid-2011, we were deep into creating ASP.NET Web Forms content pages using Visual Studio 2010, c# and MS SQL Server database on top of a mixed language App Code base that was still mostly AVR.NET.
In 2012, we became Tegratecs Development Corp. to differentiate ourselves from other corporations with similar names to Information Consultants, Inc. In 2017, we applied for and received a registered services and products trademark for the Tegratecs Development Corp. name.
By the end of 2012, we were well into developing ASP.NET websites with a common App Code Base, written in c#, vb.net and/or Visual RPG for .NET using Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition. We were also proud to report the invention of an extended web page class that was common to all of the websites virtually eliminating duplicate pattern coding. At the time, the extended web page class was written in Visual RPG for .NET.
In the mid-2010s, we developed applications to print the USPS IMpb barcode directly from IBM i to laser and also on Zebra printers. We helped a distributor integrate add-on services pricing into their fulfilment workflow, including facets of the packaging, shipment method and final pricing processes. We also developed a USPS international mail application involving various barcodes printed on Zebra printers and an sftp inteface to USPS. We also we finished new versions of an integrated packaging selection algorithm and ship via shopper function for one of our oldest clients. We also helped with letter writing and printing capability improvements, such that letter writing featured compound conditional sentences and in some cases included bar codes.
In 2017, we implemented our first IIS web server as a virtual machine under Microsoft Hyper-V, and started prototyping our websites from there. This was our on 3rd Microsoft Server HW physical machine, however it was also our 3rd virtualization implementation.
By July 2018, we had converted the majority of our v8 App Code web base programming to c# with only a few components remaining in vb.net and avr.net (in the App Code base). The first version of the extended web page class in vb.net was also completed. Visual Studio 2015 was in use during this time frame.
In 2018, we purchased a shiny new IBM Power 9 server running IBM i and over the years since, have upgraded the OS 3 times (we chose to have it arrive with the oldest version OS we could, in order to remain compatible with some of our customers who were lagging a bit behind).
Build Set 9 of Financial Portrait Version 4 was released in Q3 of 2018 and includes ePayments (ACH and Commercial Card) made directly out of Financial Portrait Accounts Payable.
In 2019, we announced Mobile ASPX - Tegratecs Code Package™. Essentially, Mobile ASPX seeks to empower ASP.NET Web Forms developers with a server-side controller-like solution to the mobile view challenge, while not hindering wide-aspect views (like gridviews with numerous columns). By using the master page technique in an OO environment, there is virtually no code duplication or requirement for "includes". Also, the developer can usually avoid meddling with tricky CSS hierarchies (or needing someone else to do so).
In 2020, we announced Financial Portrait integration with a new version of the smartclient, v10.7, as the ActiveX was deprecated by Microsoft with the end of Windows 7, and IBM had moved on to new SSL cyphers in latter IBM i v7 OS versions (that were not available with the smartclient 8.0 version). So in conjunction with Fresche Solutions support, a repository update feature (via the internet) is also available with the v10.7 implementation (this has been is an important aspect of our vision for smartclient since the beginning), and it does not use ActiveX. Since Windows 7 the CAB download and install process can only be done by the administrator (can't be delegated to an authorized regular PC user). But good news to relax the admin, the repository now sits in the ProgramData directory and thus, aside from registering the CAB process, there is no need for registry updates! yea! So the Tegratecs Windows Server housing the repository versions
(for download) is a Windows Server 2019 running as a virtual machine inside of a Dell PowerEdge R610 Windows Server 2016 in Hyper-V role (and behind a WatchGuard Firebox).
In 2021, we created a User Tutorial Subscriptions Cloud Environment offering for Financial Portrait customer prospects and other training scenarios. Users are able to connect to their own FPS environment on our IBM i server via SSL using the fps smartclient 10.7 on their desktop or [*new*] on a PC supplied by Tegratecs.
In 2023, we came out with an ERP level Item Master Maintenance prototype that uses the standard browser on the client side, for a COMMON User Group presentation highlighting the Db2 for i .NET Provider and our super-tight optimistic record locking technique. Prerequisites/requirements for the solution involved IIS web server (or Visual Studio to run on desktop), c# code-behind and the 4.8 .NET Framework.
In 2023, we came out with new versions of Get Running - Tegratecs Code Package™ and Mobile ASPX - Tegratecs Code Package™ along with immediate self-service short term subscription offerings!
In 2024, we announced Financial Portrait Build Set 12 for nationwide release. As always, it includes automated install procedures for those customers running the most recent stock version (v4 Build Set 11). It includes integrated logic for 3 different JE entry formats, ease of use improvements for estates and a standardized authorities model (at the IBM i OS level) for handling remote update of Db2 for i database and supporting multi-user, real-time transactions. Our Accounts Receivable application now includes back end database and stored procedures for handling PayPal transactions. The base A/R package handles the commision percentage / transaction fees model well when PayPal is designated as the A/R Point Customer and the actual customer is the Bill To Customer. This allows the A/R cash application feature to show the detail that is to match the amount of the day's cash receipt lump from PayPal.
In 2024, we announced a new Financial Portrait application module, Enterprise Expense Reporting. A prototype is available online for your perusing.
Another batch of Titleist Pro V1 #35 golf balls celebrating our
35 years in business will be arriving soon! Get some just for evaluating one of our software products or purchasing a 1 month subscription license. All gone for the moment! Stay tuned for #39s!
We have been demonstrating our know-how in the areas of integrated business applications and concurrent
multi-user solutions with relational database foundations for a long time...
But the thrill
isn't gone!
And now
we are a part of those delivering high end business applications via the browser. We're pumped up to be using OO
programming to bring advanced business application logic to the zero footprint web browser. And to allow the user to select mobile views or ultra-wide theatre view based on the application at run time.
Please check out our Enterprise Expense Reporting product prototype on financialportrait.com.
Please check out the News and Events web page on tegratecs.com for further details..
Today we count over 60 customers and 900 vendors in our internal database.
Some of our customers
(including both product and service customers), as originally named, include
ADEonics, Inc., American Hospital Supply, Baxter Healthcare, Central DuPage Hospital, Chicago Finished Metals, Children's
Memorial Hospital, Culligan International, Inc., Data Performance, Inc., Hartz and Company, Inc., Interpoint Corporation,
KW Control Systems, Levy Home Entertainment, Lincoln Insurance, Moby Paint Contracting, The Omni User, Optyl, Parking Company of America, Rexam Release,
Rosenbluth International, Inc., Roxane Laboratories, Inc., Signature Homestyles, Summit Solutions, LLC, SuperValu Inc., USSPI and Western Folder Distributing Co...