'Legacy Enabled E-Business Applications' Forum Debuts in New York City With Six More to Follow Across U.S. Sponsored by SCORT Software and Computer Generated Solutions.Business/Technology Editors MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000 SCORT Software, a developer of Internet-based solutions for extending legacy applications to the Web, announced that it has teamed with Computer Generated Solutions to deliver a "how to" series of interactive forums--providing IT professionals with the insights and tools necessary to develop successful legacy enabled e-business applications, today. The first "Legacy Enabled E-Business Applications" Forum debuted in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. last week and the series will now move on to at least six more cities over the next two months, including New Jersey, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The Computer Generated Solutions and SCORT team recognize that billions of dollars have been spent making hundreds of thousands of legacy mainframe systems Y2K compliant. And now that the dust has settled, IT management is dealing with the huge backlog and demand for new e-business applications --from internal organizational "e" to B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business . Attending in New York City were banks, brokerages, insurance, manufacturing, publishing and state and local government organizations. All attendees had the immediate pressure to move forward with e-business applications, "placing their need for extending legacy applications to the forefront" and legacy reuse was viewed as both a "strategy and a tactic" for achieving their goals. Extending the productive lifecycle of legacy systems is not only practical but economically desirable as well--and one of the best ways to leverage this increasing investment in legacy systems is to Web-enable mainframe applications so that users can access, update or retrieve legacy data through their Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . The "Legacy Enabled E-Business Applications" Forum demonstrates how existing legacy applications can be transformed into e-applications without code modification. Attendees discover how to: (1) utilize a simple emulation applet for extending their applications (2) re-screen applications into a browser-friendly, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. format (3) generate Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) that provide mainframe and browser connectivity for application servers from IBM/WebSphere, BEA/WebLogic, SilverStream/ASP and SUN/iPlanet with application flexibility, scalability, and globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation (4) integrate multiple applications into a single, Web-based view. The roundtable format is designed to enable participants to come away with a clear understanding of how legacy application functionality can be used as the foundation for e-business "killer" applications. Further information and registration details regarding future forums can be obtained by contacting Melody Nelson at 212-408-3847. About SCORT Software SCORT is a leading e-business software vendor specializing in universal plug and play software for accessing and connecting existing information systems to the Web. SCORT develops products and offers a complete range of services through its Channel Partner and Business Partner networks, in North America and Europe. These services include studies and prototypes, project implementation, as well as training and support. SCORT's business partners include BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Netscape and Sun Microsystems and channel partners like Computer Generated Solutions. The company is located at 293 Boston Post Road The Boston Post Road was a system of roads from New York City to Boston, Massachusetts, containing some of the first major highways in the United States. It began as a path to deliver the post using post riders (the first ride to lay out the Upper Post Road starting January 22, West, Marlborough, MA 01752 and can be reached by calling (508) 485-8700, or on the World Wide Web at www.scortsoftware.com. About Computed Generated Solutions Headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Computer Generated Solutions, Inc., provides comprehensive systems integration and information technology services to companies worldwide. CGS CGS centimeter-gram-second system. CGS or cgs abbr. centimeter-gram-second system. CGS, c.g.s. offers The Composite Solution(TM), which encompasses business consulting, new systems development, applications maintenance, document management, enterprise solutions, networking, hardware, software, technical training, IT staffing, on-site and remote help desk support and Year 2000 services. Additional information is available at www.cgsinc.com. |
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