What CPMG does

CPMG (Computer Programs Marketing Group) is a privately held California corporation that develops and sells alternative software solutions for organizations running IBM mainframe environments, specifically z/VSE and z/OS platforms (and earlier releases). The company was founded in 1993 and operates from two offices in California: Montague (Administration & Sales) and Los Angeles (Research & Development), with a headcount of 11-50 employees. Its product portfolio centers on VSE Print Manager—a print management suite with CPIMAGE, CPSETPRT, and CPPRINT components that uses Dynamic Storage Modules to reduce spooled data by up to 90%—and CICS FAST/ACCESS, a CICS-based online database query and reporting tool offering sub-second response times and programming-free database definition.

The company's go-to-market is direct enterprise sales, conducted via a toll-free phone line (800-400-CPMG) and email, with no third-party resellers or digital commerce channels. Revenue is predominantly one-time perpetual software licensing, with pricing held flat since 1994. CPMG has discontinued its Contract Systems Support professional services in order to focus exclusively on its wholly-owned subsidiary QMSI (Quintessential Mailing Software Incorporated), which develops postal software for the same mainframe customer base. Customers span insurance, banking, catalog sales, direct mail, entertainment, and municipal utilities verticals, with no external funding, no institutional investors, and no public disclosure of financial results.

Name

CPMG

Legal name

Computer Programs Marketing Group

Website

https://cpmg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CPMG (Computer Programs Marketing Group) is a privately held California software company that develops alternative software solutions—VSE Print Manager and CICS FAST/ACCESS—for organizations running IBM z/VSE and z/OS mainframe environments, serving insurance, banking, direct mail, and municipal utility customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mainframe Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (51321)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

MDM Platforms (Customer/Product/Supplier/Location) (HDAEADAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Business Rules & Decision Management Platforms (BRMS/DMN) (HDAEAKAG)

Keywords

• IBM mainframe software
• Enterprise print management
• CICS database tools
• Mainframe systems support
• Z/OS application tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Dallas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing: Software product sales for z/VSE and z/OS platforms including VSE Print Manager and CICS FAST/ACCESS. Products offered at consistent pricing since introduction in 1994 with no price increases recorded.
2. Technical Support Services: Contract Systems Support providing short-term and long-term systems support for IBM operating environments. Services cover Telecommunications, TCP/IP, Networking and IBM Operating Systems. Note: Company has shifted focus to subsidiary QMSI and no longer actively offers technical services to mainframe community.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CPMG develops and licenses alternative software products for IBM mainframe environments running z/VSE and z/OS (and earlier releases), principally VSE Print Manager for compatibility-mode laser printing and CICS FAST/ACCESS for online database query and reporting. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary QMSI, it also offers postal software for the same IBM Mainframe Enterprise community. The company historically provided Contract Systems Support services, but has since shifted focus to its subsidiary and no longer offers those technical services to the mainframe community.

Product overview

CPMG provides alternative software solutions for IBM mainframe platforms (z/VSE and z/OS). The portfolio includes VSE Print Manager (a comprehensive print management system with three components: CPIMAGE, CPSETPRT, and CPPRINT for laser printing operations), CICS FAST/ACCESS (a CICS-based online data query and reporting tool with sub-second response times), and Contract Systems Support (technical consulting services). CPMG also operates QMSI, a subsidiary focused exclusively on postal software for the IBM mainframe enterprise community. The company, founded in 1993 and privately held in California, specializes in serving industries including insurance, banking, catalog sales, direct mail, entertainment, and municipal utilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• QMSI: Postal Software subsidiary for IBM Mainframe Enterprise community using z/VSE or z/OS platforms
• VSE Print Manager
• CICS FAST/ACCESS

Products and services

• VSE Print Manager A comprehensive print management suite for IBM z/VSE and earlier platforms supporting compatibility-mode continuous-form 3800 laser printing. Includes CPIMAGE for document/image preparation (equivalent to IBM's IEBIMAGE), CPSETPRT for printer configuration with dynamic FCB generation, and CPPRINT for multi-tasking print management using Dynamic Storage Modules that reduce spooled data by up to 90%. Designed for enterprises operating legacy and modern z/VSE mainframes.
• CICS FAST/ACCESS A user-friendly CICS facility for prototyping, building, loading, searching, displaying, and modifying databases on IBM Mainframes running z/OS, OS/390, and MVS. Supports databases from a few records to millions of records, enables file sharing across applications, allows online database definition creation without programming, and provides sub-second query response times. Targets mainframe data processing teams needing rapid query and reporting capabilities.
• QMSI Postal Software Postal software developed by CPMG's wholly-owned subsidiary Quintessential Mailing Software Incorporated (QMSI) exclusively for the IBM Mainframe Enterprise community using z/VSE or z/OS (and earlier releases). Future plans and release dates are communicated via quintmail.com and a dedicated toll-free line.
• Contract Systems Support A technical systems support service covering telecommunications, TCP/IP, networking, and IBM operating systems for customers requiring short-term or long-term engagements to maintain a stable operating environment. Note: per the source, CPMG has shifted focus to its subsidiary QMSI and is no longer offering this technical service to the mainframe community.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 90% reduction in spooled data using DSMs
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• DataKinetics: Provides mainframe performance optimization, data management, and CICS-related tooling for IBM z/OS environments. Closely comparable to CPMG in targeting CICS-adjacent database and reporting use cases.
• Heirloom Computing: Specializes in migrating and modernizing mainframe workloads to cloud and Linux. Represents both an adjacent player and a potential substitute for CPMG's customer base as enterprises evaluate mainframe replacement paths.
• GT Software: Offers mainframe-to-modern integration and API enablement tools. Targets enterprises still running z/OS that need to expose mainframe data and applications to modern systems, partially overlapping with CPMG's CICS data-access niche.

Broad incumbents

• IBM: Owner of the z/VSE and z/OS platforms whose native utilities (e.g., IEBIMAGE) are the baseline against which CPMG's VSE Print Manager and CICS FAST/ACCESS compete. Indirect competitor via bundled tooling but rarely a direct head-to-head for niche add-ons.
• Micro Focus: Provides enterprise software including mainframe modernization, testing, and connectivity tools. Competes in adjacent mainframe tooling categories and often serves the same CIO buyer as CPMG.
• BMC Software: Long-standing incumbent in mainframe systems management (acquired Compuware in 2020). Overlaps with CPMG in mainframe tooling, application development, and data management for z/OS and z/VSE customers, but serves a much broader enterprise software portfolio.
• Broadcom (CA Technologies mainframe business): Acquired CA Technologies, a legacy mainframe tools vendor. Competes broadly across mainframe systems software, including CICS-adjacent tooling, and serves the same enterprise mainframe base as CPMG but at a vastly larger scale.

Direct peers

• Rocket Software: A major independent vendor of IBM mainframe infrastructure, modernization, and connectivity software. Directly competes with CPMG in providing tools that extend and manage z/VSE and z/OS environments for enterprise customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments16 records

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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