DREC Enterprises

What DREC Enterprises does

DREC Enterprises is a Lincoln, Nebraska-based sole proprietorship operating two distinct micro-businesses under founder Randall J. Cecrle. The primary business, marketed as DREC Software, develops and licenses RptView (Report Viewer) for Windows — a desktop utility built with Delphi/CodeGear that views, prints, and extracts data from ASCII reports generated by IBM Mainframes, UNIX, COBOL, Fortran, ERP, and other legacy systems. The product differentiates on direct handling of native legacy report formats without requiring source-application modifications, supports reports over 25,000 pages, and is distributed as a small-footprint (under 5MB), self-contained executable with optional PKZip archive support, boolean search, GreenBar display modes, four-way screen splitting, and ParseNCopy data extraction into spreadsheet cells. Per-license pricing is perpetual-only, ranging from $95 (single user) to $1,725 (single server, unlimited users; or 250 notebook deployments), with upgrade pricing available.

The secondary business is self-publishing the Christian inspirational title 'Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance' (2007, 188 pages, ISBNs 1602660417 / 1602660409) via Xulon Press with retail distribution through Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com at $22.99 hardcover and $14.99 paperback. The company pursues seminar and class engagements related to the book's themes. Marketing is website-driven (drecsoftware.com) with direct email and phone sales ([email protected], 1-402-890-7760) and accepts credit card or purchase-order transactions with electronic or physical delivery. Named software customers span education, energy, retail/photography, defense, agriculture, manufacturing, financial services, government, healthcare, food distribution, and entertainment — including Goodyear, Monsanto, Shell Oil, First Data, L-3 Communications, Renaissance Energy, Olan Mills, EMI Christian Music Group, Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, Associated Grocers of the South, School District of Palm Beach County, U.S. Armed Services Rock Island Arsenal, and Oklahoma Department of Corrections — with end-customer geographic reach into USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. The business is unfunded, employs 1-10 people, and the public website content carries a 02/15/2010 last-updated marker.

Name

DREC Enterprises

Legal name

DREC Enterprises

Website

https://drecsoftware.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

DREC Enterprises is a Lincoln, Nebraska sole proprietorship that licenses RptView, a Windows desktop utility for viewing, printing, and extracting data from ASCII reports generated by IBM mainframes, UNIX, COBOL, Fortran, and ERP systems, and self-publishes the Christian inspirational title 'Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance.'

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lincoln

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses: Perpetual license fees for RptView software with tiered pricing based on user count. Includes free first six months of updates and free email/phone support.
2. Book Sales: Self-published book sales through Xulon Press distribution, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and retail bookstores. Available in hardcover and paperback formats.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

DREC Enterprises operates two distinct product lines under a sole proprietorship: (1) RptView (Report Viewer) for Windows, a desktop software application that views, prints, and extracts data from ASCII reports generated by IBM Mainframes, UNIX, COBOL, Fortran, ERP, and other systems without modifying source applications; and (2) "Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance," a 188-page self-published Christian book by Randall J. Cecrle on forgiveness and repentance.

Product overview

DREC Enterprises operates as a dual-business company offering two distinct products: (1) RptView (Report Viewer) for Windows, a desktop software application for viewing, printing, and extracting data from ASCII reports generated by mainframes and enterprise systems, and (2) 'Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance,' a self-published inspirational book. The software business has operated since 1995 and the publishing business since 2007. The company is a sole proprietorship headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• RptView (Report Viewer) for Windows A Windows desktop application that allows enterprise, government, and education users to view, print, and extract information from reports generated from IBM Mainframes, UNIX, COBOL, Fortran, ERP, and other systems and stored as ASCII files on Laptop, Desktop, Network, HTTP, or FTP drives. Version 6.1.2.0 supports Windows 95, 98, NT, Vista, 7, and Wine on Intel Unix, and uniquely renders legacy ASCII reports without requiring changes to the producing source applications.
• Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance A 188-page self-published English-language Christian book by Randall J. Cecrle that teaches forgiveness of others' hurtful actions, guides readers from anger and bitterness to love and peace, and covers repentance, trustworthiness, confession, and Christian standards of living, drawing on the author's 15+ years of lay prison ministry experience. Available in hardcover and paperback for individual readers, prison ministries, churches, Bible study groups, Stephen Ministries, and bookstores/retailers/libraries.

Quantifiable outcome

• Report distribution time reduced from 3 days to minutes for School District of Palm Beach County
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• OpenText (formerly Micro Focus): OpenText, following its acquisition of Micro Focus, is a broad incumbent in enterprise information management including mainframe reporting, COBOL tooling, and document/output management. It serves the same large-enterprise mainframe customers as DREC but as part of a much larger portfolio of modernization and analytics products.
• Broadcom (CA Technologies mainframe portfolio): Broadcom's mainframe software unit (inherited from CA Technologies) offers report distribution, job scheduling, and operations tools for IBM z/OS environments. It competes with DREC at the high end of the same enterprise customer base, though as part of a much broader systems software portfolio.
• BMC Software: BMC provides mainframe operations management, output management, and workload automation for large enterprises — overlapping with DREC's focus on distributing large mainframe reports to end users. BMC serves the same Fortune 500 / government customer cohort at much larger scale.
• Precisely (formerly Syncsort): Precisely offers data integrity, integration, and reporting tools for mainframe and IBM i environments. It addresses similar customer needs around extracting and distributing data from legacy systems, competing with DREC in enterprises that need more than just a viewer.

Direct peers

• Rocket Software: Rocket Software is a direct competitor focused on mainframe and IBM i modernization, reporting, and operations tools — closely aligned with DREC's RptView use case of viewing/distributing large reports from legacy enterprise systems. Rocket's portfolio (including acquired ASG Technologies) directly addresses the same mainframe report-distribution pain points.
• LIST Software: LIST Software specializes in mainframe output management, AFP/line-data report viewing, and print/file distribution for z/OS environments. It is a direct peer to RptView in the niche of letting enterprises view and distribute large mainframe-generated reports without modifying source applications.

Emerging players

• Stonebond Technologies: Stonebond provides mainframe modernization and report-rehosting tools for enterprises still running COBOL and RPG systems. It overlaps with RptView at the intersection of legacy-system report viewing and modernization, and tends to serve smaller, more budget-conscious customers.
• Altair (Datawatch legacy products): Altair acquired Datawatch, whose Monarch product family historically enabled self-service data preparation and report viewing from unstructured/text-based legacy outputs. It overlaps with RptView's "view/extract from ASCII reports" proposition but with a more modern data analytics positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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