Attachmate Accepted into the IBM SOA Specialty.Attachmate Verastream Service Oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. Architecture Approach Drives Business Agility and Flexibility SEATTLE -- Attachmate Corporation today announced its acceptance to the 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) 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. Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technical and business requirements. With this achievement, Attachmate Verastream[R] products, a comprehensive suite of mainframe-, desktop- and web-based integration offerings, integrate with the IBM software and strategy for SOA. "SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, vice president of IBM SOA and WebSphere. "Through its continued investment in SOA-based mainframe integration, Attachmate is providing its customers with a powerful way to reduce integration costs while taking full advantage of their legacy assets as they move to embrace new technology platforms." Attachmate Verastream software enables the full range of legacy applications to participate in today's SOAs by exposing business processes as 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. , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , Java, and .NET components that can be mixed, matched, and reused. No changes to mainframe-application code are required. Verastream applications help companies move into the SOA business era faster by allowing them to leverage their existing development skills, familiar IT tools and proven mainframe investments. And, by offering enhanced flexibility for new web-based user interfaces, as well as support for the latest Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. infrastructure standards, the Verastream products enable organizations to fully leverage their legacy applications in an SOA environment to drive business productivity and lower IT costs. "Attachmate Verastream software provides customers with a low-cost, low-risk way to leverage their valuable legacy assets in modern IT infrastructures," said Eric Varness, vice president of marketing at Attachmate. "Attachmate's acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty underscores our ongoing dedication to providing comprehensive solutions for SOA-based integration, and assures our customers that Verastream tools can deliver the value of SOA to their IBM environments." Further demonstrating its commitment to helping customers leverage the full power of the IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. , Attachmate will share best practices for reusing host data and business processes from business-critical 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 applications through a September 19 webcast, "Service-enabling CICS Applications: Best Practices". The final webcast in a seven-part series aimed at helping organizations increase revenues and reduce costs by re-using their legacy assets, this session will focus specifically on how IBM customers in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , insurance and retail industries can transform their business-critical CICS functionality into reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us services that can be leveraged in new SOA application development or integration projects. To register for "Service-enabling CICS Applications: Best Practices" or to learn more about other sessions, please visit www.attachmate.com/en-US/webcasts/webcasts.htm. About Verastream Attachmate's Verastream legacy integration suite is a complete range of mainframe, web and desktop modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, tools built to speed the reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. of legacy application investments. Verastream software delivers the full spectrum of basic rejuvenation Rejuvenation Aeson in extreme old age, restored to youth by Medea. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 322] apples of perpetual youth by tasting the golden apples kept by Idhunn, the gods preserved their youth. [Scand. Myth. to customized presentation and sophisticated high-performance integration. Verastream-generated services can be mixed, matched and reused to extend legacy functionality to new applications or users. No code changes to legacy applications are required. Attachmate Verastream software works collaboratively or as a stand-alone tool along with the company's integration, legacy access, security and management products, enabling companies to extend the use of existing IT investments while adopting valuable new technologies to improve their businesses. About Attachmate Attachmate, owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, enables IT organizations to extend mission critical services and assures they are managed, secure and compliant. Attachmate's leading solutions include host connectivity, systems and security management, and PC lifecycle management. Our goal is to empower IT organizations to deliver trusted applications, manage service levels, and ensure compliance by leveraging knowledge, automation and secured connectivity. For more information, visit www.attachmate.com. Copyright (c) 2007 Attachmate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Attachmate, the Attachmate logo and Verastream are registered trademarks of Attachmate Corporation, in the USA and other countries. All other trademarks, trade names, or company names referenced herein are used for identification only and are the property of their respective owners. |
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