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Cloud Enabling Mainframe Applications

Profitable Business in the Cloud: It’s not just for tunes anymore

 

Enterprise applications meet the modern IT age with Verastream solutions for cloud computing. The ability to cloud-enable mainframe applications means that you can quickly respond to a range of new demands—including the demand for mobile access to core business apps.

While some of the most successful cloud implementations make use of host application data and functions, many IT teams have questions about the best way allow those applications to participate. This solution portal is designed to answer those questions.

Our solution brief “Cloud Enabling Your Mainframe Data” gives a quick, two-page overview of the mainframe/cloud issue, and includes a practical business case

Why Attachmate?

Because Attachmate has been solving mainframe access and integration problems for 30 years, the legacy-to-cloud challenge is tailor-made for our proficiency and experience. In everything we do, we challenge the status quo. That’s how we proved that legacy systems are not as “locked up” as commonly believed. And that’s what makes our solutions superior to others on the market.

At Attachmate, we understand why IT managers are not eager to disturb the mainframe data and logic that keep their businesses running. The prospect of opening up those applications to new technologies like cloud computing can raise anxiety levels exponentially. With the right tools, however, you can take on the task with confidence.

The Verastream Advantage

The Attachmate Verastream legacy modernization suite helps IT organizations respond to dynamic business demands without leaving legacy assets behind. It’s tailored for low-risk, high-speed integration, while delivering reliable ROI.
 

With Verastream, you can make critical data available to the cloud, without affecting existing systems
With Verastream, you can make critical data available to the cloud, without affecting existing systems.

 

With Verastream solutions, you can get cloud enablement done in weeks or months, instead of years. Through its use of industry standards such as web services, J2EE, and .NET, Verastream automatically generates services that can be mixed, matched, and reused in the cloud. No code changes to existing applications are required, so you avoid risk to the systems that are critical to your ongoing business operations.  

Imagine: What if you could …

  • Use a repeatable solution to address tactical line-of-business requests?
  • Maintain total control over mainframe data and work flows while moving them to the cloud?
  • Meet the demands of the business without changing the IT systems you’re responsible for?
  • Allow applications across the enterprise to participate equally in the cloud? 

Verastream tools can help you turn all of the above what-ifs into realities. In fact, advanced Verastream solutions from Attachmate set new standards for the term “Agile IT.” 

Try out Verastream Host Integrator now (six-minute demo)

 

Three-Part Essentials Series

PDF

Cloud Enabling Legacy and Mainframe Applications
Explores common mistakes and misconceptions, as well as best practices for optimum control and cost savings.

Four-Minute Video

Video

Teaching Legacy Application Elephants How to Dance
Shows how you can continuously reuse enterprise apps via service enablement, while leaving legacy logic untouched.

Six-Minute Demo

Product Demo

Verastream Host Integrator
Demonstrates ways to transform legacy-application data and logic into reusable services – even mobile-ready services.

Five-Minute Demo

Product Demo

Verastream Process Designer
Demonstrates ways to orchestrate legacy services, using BPEL, to create business workflows for newer technologies, including mobile devices.

Three-Minute Video

Video

Defining the New Mobile Enterprise
Shows three different ways to deliver mobile applications while your core business systems continue to reliably perform their everyday operations.

Three-Minute Demo

Product Demo

Making Legacy Apps Available to Your Mobile Workforce
Shows how Verastream, an advanced mobile enterprise application platform, can make legacy applications seamlessly accessible to mobile devices.

 

The resources below offer timely information on ways to cloud enable your mainframe applications.

Technology Solutions
Verastream Host Integrator
Encapsulates data and logic via the screen interface to transform your enterprise host applications into cloud-ready services.
Verastream Bridge Integrator
Provides a distributed approach—requiring no embedded code—for including CICS applications in your cloud implementation.
Verastream Process Designer
Lets you orchestrate your services to create new business workflows, in ways you never could before.

Quick Demos 
Three-Minute Demo on mobile enablement
Six-minute demo on legacy service enablement
Five-Minute demo on legacy service orchestration

Videos
San Bernardino County Creates an ‘E-Filing Portal’
Let a government CTO tell you how his agency webified COBOL-based green screens from the 1980s.
Defining the New Mobile Enterprise
See how you can provide robust access to legacy apps, in any format, for any user, from any device.
Teaching Legacy Elephants to Dance
Get a fresh take on ways to create services for continuous reuse of legacy applications.
Load Distribution and Failover Video
Get an engineer’s view of using server domains and configuring session servers.

 
Solution Briefs & White Papers
Cloud Enabling Your Mainframe Data: The Verastream Edge
Cloud Enabling Mainframe Applications: Advanced Verastream approach offers less time, cost, and risk
Mobile-Enabling Your Workforce with Applications You Already Have: How Verastream Delivers Enterprise Apps Wherever and Whenever Users Need Them
A Business-Driven Approach to Legacy Modernization: Rapid service enablement via small, orchestrated steps
Fundamentals of Service Orientation
Zero-Footprint Terminal Emulation for Mobile Devices: How Verastream Excels with a Modern Three-Tier Approach
More solution briefs & white papers

SOA Webcasts
Service-Enabling Legacy Applications: Where to Start
Extending Legacy to SOA
Turning Mainframe Banking and Insurance Applications Into SOA Building Blocks 
More webcasts

Real Time Publishers eSeries
Cloud Enabling Legacy and Mainframe Applications
Find out how to make your legacy apps the back end to your own cloud.
SOA and Mainframe Applications
Learn best practices for reusing existing data and logic with newer technologies.
Mainframe Application Modernization
Get tips and techniques for speeding up service-enablement of valuable legacy assets.

Avis Europe, British Telecom, Countrywide, PPG, and WOW Internet Cable & Phone rely on our legacy modernization solutions. Find out who else is having business success using Verastream, below.

 

Customer Stories Summary
San Bernardino (Calif.) County Streamlined traffic-ticket processing by automating data entry into master green-screen application.
Providence Hospital Modernized, integrated, and accelerated access to patient data stored on mainframes and AS/400s.
Freightliner Extracted shipping data from mainframe application to provide real-time online tracking information.
Century-National Insurance Service-enabled HP-based applications to give brokers and agents a customized web application.
More customer stories