Partnership adds mobile app dev team for Santa Rosa as well as an Asia Pacific distribution channel for the mainframe software vendor that was founded in 2023.

Santa Rosa Software LLC, the leading provider of mobile applications for IBM^® z/OS^®, announced a partnership with application and website development agency Omega Orion. The partnership is a global technology and distribution partnership that gives Santa Rosa Software a team of application developers and global distribution and support services in Europe and Asia Pacific.

“We are excited to make this announcement with Omega Orion because in this partner we have found a proven software development agency trusted by its clients and that has more than 150 projects in production,” said Tony Perri, CEO and co-founder of Santa Rosa Software. “Krishnil (Bhojani) and his team are innovators building modern applications for the future and this is precisely our focus for our application development roadmap for the next generation of mainframers.”

We are excited to make this announcement with Omega Orion, and in this partner we have found a proven software development group trusted by its clients that has more than 150 projects in production”

— Tony Perri, CEO/Co-Founder SRS

The Omega Orion partnership has local roots as Perri met Bohani through a mutual business colleague who is also based in Chattanooga. In addition to mobile app development, the Omega Orion team also has deep expertise in UI/UX design, web development, and brand building. In each of these service areas, Omega Orion follows specific design processes built over years of working with clients who commanded quality design at the optimal cost. Omega Orion’s app development expertise spans a wide array of industries including banking, retail, airlines, real estate, and media, and their software deployments span the globe.

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“Mobile technology isn’t just about putting software in your pocket; it’s about putting power, connection, and opportunity in your hands,” said Krishnil Bhojani, CEO of Omega Orion. “We are excited to partner with Santa Rosa Software and extend our applications portfolio into the IBM mainframe.”

Founded in 2023 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Santa Rosa Software was founded to on the idea of building mobile applications for the mainframe, specifically IBM z/OS, for the next generation of mainframers. Perri, who has been working in the IBM mainframe marketplace since 2008, co-founded the company with two colleagues, one who was working in mainframe application development and the other in enterprise mobile security. Their collective backgrounds in IBM mainframe and mobile security technologies led naturally to Santa Rosa Software’s first application, KhyberPass

KhyberPass is a password generator for IBM z/OS, a.k.a. “big iron,” that can generate passwords on the three security facilities that manage access and event logging on z/OS – Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), Access Control Facility 2 (ACF2) and IBM zSecure’s Top Secret (formerly from CA). In addition to generating passwords to specific business unit rules or configurations, KhyberPass can store and issue alerts through the mobile app or email notification for when a password needs to be regenerated. KhyberPass can also ingest and store multiple configurations to help users keep track (by business unit) of policy rules when the app generates a password.

With the average age of a mainframe programmer at around 50 years, IBM and its affiliated education partners are rapidly creating a new generation of programmers, young and eager for the enterprise workforce. This next wave of mainframers is the first generation of z/OS programmers born and raised with mobile devices. However, there are few mobile apps to choose from for mainframe systems and Santa Rosa was founded to help fill this gap.

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