Above All Software and NEON Systems Partner to Simplify Composite Application Development With Mainframe Web Services.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Above All Studio and Shadow z/Services Combine to Accelerate Re-use of Legacy Assets in Service-Oriented Architectures Above All Software, a provider of award-winning business integration software and NEON(R) Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON), a leader in enterprise-class mainframe integration, today announced a strategic partnership to co-market and sell a combined offering to greatly enhance their customers' ability to re-purpose investments in mainframe technology as newer composite applications. Above All Studio offers a complete solution for the rapid assembly of composite applications that cuts through the complexity of typical IT environments. Integrated solutions assembled with Above All Studio pull together key functions from a variety of systems into a focused, unified application that makes business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets more efficient and employees more productive. For example, call center employees may have as many as a dozen applications to address a customer's call. Above All Studio dramatically reduces the time required to deliver new composite applications with a repository-based architecture and high-productivity visual tools. Shadow z/Services provides a single-step solution for rapidly transforming mainframe CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without , IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. and IDMS See CA-IDMS and IDMSX. 1. (language, database) IDMS - A pictorial query language, an extension of Sequel2. ["A Management System for an Integrated Database of Pictures and Alphanumeric Data", G.Y. Tang, Computer Graphics Image Processing 16:270-286 (1981)]. applications into Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . Organizations that use Shadow z/Services are more able to support new business requirements via service-oriented application development environments such as Above All Studio. "NEON's Shadow z/Services and Above All Studio together simplify the steps required to repurpose proven mainframe investments into new solutions to meet new business needs," said Roger Sippl, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Above All Software. "The two products enable mainframe applications to easily integrate and interoperate with the packaged, custom and desktop applications in use at enterprises today." "With the advent of Web services, organizations are now better able to leverage the tremendous value gained through service-oriented architectures and composite applications," said Mark Cresswell, President and CEO, NEON Systems. "Above All Studio considerably reduces the time to value for new composite applications. When combined with a Web services enabled mainframe, an organization's ability to deliver high-value applications predictably, with minimal risk, is materially improved." About NEON Systems NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON) is a leading provider of enterprise-class mainframe integration solutions, delivering a unified mainframe integration platform to support the entire range of requirements for modern Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) and emerging Event-Driven Architectures (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ). NEON's Shadow technology is designed to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration allowing large organizations with significant commitment to mainframe systems to streamline incumbent technologies and lower total cost of ownership. With decades of mainframe expertise, NEON is uniquely qualified to reduce the risk organizations face when supporting new business initiatives that integrate with mainframe systems. For more information on the future of mainframe integration, see our website at www.neonsys.com. About Above All Software Above All Software provides business users with integrated and interactive access to existing enterprise, hosted, legacy and desktop applications. Above All Software's innovative solution simplifies and speeds how organizations can meet new business needs through the rapid assembly of composite applications based on service-oriented architectures. Headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , Above All Software is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. founded in 2002. For more information about Above All Software, visit our Web site at www.aboveallsoftware.com or call 800-819-5530. The NEON logo, Shadow, Shadow Direct and Shadow Web Server are registered trademarks, and Shadow Connect, Shadow Event Publisher, Shadow Event Connect and Shadow Console are trademarks of NEON Systems, Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. All other trademarks, service marks and product or service names are the property of their respective owners. |
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