About Industrial Strength Software Company

About

Industrial Strength Software Company

Company History

Industrial Strength Software Company (ISS) is a privately held computer software development firm, incorporated in Illinois in 1989. ISS was founded by several partners with degrees in Computer Science and with over 30 years of combined experience in software design, development and implementation in IBM mainframe, IBM PC and various UNIX workstation environments.

Based on this experience, the company initially focused its energy on designing, developing, and installing software tools to manage applications software, initially targeted for the IBM AS/400 market.

Products

Our first product was SourceMaster®, a source code version control tool for the IBM System/38 and AS/400 platforms. Similar tools exist in the IBM mainframe and UNIX environments, but the absence of such tools in the IBM midrange product line was viewed as an opportunity to launch such a product. Early SourceMaster customers provided valuable feedback on the features and enhancements they felt would be most desirable. ISS did not attempt an aggressive marketing campaign at that time. We felt that a high quality, reliable product would result in lower support costs and happy customers who would provide invaluable "word of mouth" references. Several of our original customers still use SourceMaster, because "it just works" and "it never fails."

During the initial marketing and supporting of SourceMaster from 1990 to 1992, ISS identified the most important of all the requested features and enhancements. These key features were incorporated into ChangeMaster®, a change management and version control utility, and the follow-on to SourceMaster.

ChangeMaster is now installed at a some of the world's largest AS/400 and iSeries customer sites, including Fortune 500 corporations and large financial institutions, who are using this tool to effectively manage and control their software development, testing, and implementation processes.

Mission Statement

The mission of Industrial Strength Software Company is to provide professional, high quality software development tools and utilities for various systems, and to provide consulting and technical services to assist clients in developing and maintaining computer-based solutions to meet their business needs.

ISS also offers total solutions services to assist IS and IT organizations with applications development and maintenance. ISS can deliver software projects quickly and with high quality. Our "best practices" focus on speed, quality, and positive client relationships. ISS services enable our clients to consistently meet their internal customers' needs and expectations through rapid delivery of high quality software solutions.

ISS also develops proprietary software technology for use in our products, and licenses this technology to other organizations.