Extending Mainframe Applications to SOA
SOA, with its model of decentralized resources, can present new opportunities to innovate at the business level, with fewer technological constraints. But even the most ambitious SOA plans can implode if your strategy does not take the mainframe into consideration.
How Attachmate can help
Organizations around the world are using Attachmate solutions to service-enable all types of mainframe and enterprise functionality through the use of industry standards such as web services, J2EE, and .NET. Whether you need basic rejuvenation, customized presentation, or sophisticated high-performance integration, we can help you sort out the SOA puzzle.
Here are some examples of our expertise:
- Integrate enterprise host applications in SOA initiatives through service-enablement.
- Design new services for flexibility and repeated reuse.
- Publish web services from your host applications.
- Extend mainframe functionality into middleware platforms like ESB, BPM, application servers, and integration brokers.
- Complete “last mile” of SOA by including tough mainframe applications.
You can find a successful SOA strategy with the help of the right technology partner. Get started now, by using the practical resources on this SOA-specific portal.
The resources below include the best of our technology solutions and SOA best practices.
| Customer Stories |
Summary |
| AT&T |
Gave contact center agents a unified web front end for applications running on IBM mainframes. |
| Century-National Insurance |
Service-enabled HP-based applications to give brokers and agents a customized web application. |
| Edfinancial Services |
Modernized and web-enabled 3270-screen system to provide real-time access to student loan application. |
| Eplica |
Web-enabled back-end systems—without rearchitecting code or security structures—to provide a simple interface to iSeries and OpenVMS hosts. |
| PPG |
Extended IBM mainframe functionality to web for internal and external users, with no impact to existing mainframes or daily operations. |
| Providence Hospital |
Integrated and accelerated medical-staff access to patient data on miscellaneous systems including IBM mainframes and AS/400s. |
| San Bernardino County |
Modernized traffic-ticket processing by scanning XML stream and automating data entry into master green-screen application. |
| More customer stories |
With these Attachmate resources, you’ll see how you can modernize business processes by integrating existing services and information spanning multiple applications and host systems, including those running on IBM System z, IBM System i, Unix, OpenVMS, and HP e3000.