DataDirect Technologies' Shadow RTE Marks Five Year Anniversary as First Mainframe Web Services Product.Industry Leader Continues to Innovate with Mainframe Services Bus Incorporating Standards-Based Legacy Interoperability within Single Architecture BEDFORD, Mass. -- DataDirect Technologies, the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration and an operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS PRGS Phosphoribosylglycinamide Synthetase ), announced today the fifth anniversary of the industry's first mainframe 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. product. The Shadow z/Services(TM) technology, as it is known today, was first released in December 2001 as a solution for transforming mainframe screen and business applications into Web services and arguably, ushered in a new period of mainframe interoperability with distributed platforms. The Shadow z/Services platform for mainframe Web services has expanded significantly from its early versions, providing in its current form a comprehensive list of features, including: * Wide range of mainframe business logic and screen environments * Functionality for Web services access to data * Support for Web services consumption (ability for the mainframe to consume and host external, distributed Web services) * Support for leveraging SOAP over an existing MQ messaging infrastructure The Shadow z/Services product is a component the DataDirect Technologies([R]) Shadow([R]) RTE (1) See runtime engine. (2) (Real-Time Executive) The operating system used in the HP 1000 series. See HP 1000. mainframe integration suite which provides a unique, real-time foundation architecture to support all of the industry standard paradigms for integrating mainframe data, business logic and screens with distributed application An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications development initiatives. Mainframe Services Bus When first introduced, the Shadow Web services technology was a significant advancement over existing mainframe integration techniques. DataDirect has continued to advance mainframe interoperability with the delivery of the unified Shadow RTE mainframe integration suite. Just as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB (Enterprise Services Bus) A message broker that supports Web services. See message broker, messaging middleware and Web services. ) provides industry standard connectivity between disparate platforms, the Shadow RTE product provides interoperability across multiple mainframe data and application environments - offering customers a Mainframe Services Bus (MSB MSB - Most Significant Bit ). More than 350 leading companies worldwide use the Shadow RTE product to simplify the process of integrating mainframe data, applications and screen environments with 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 other distributed application development initiatives. Partner Ecosystems Expands Major independent software vendors (ISVs) have also recognized the superior technology offering of the Shadow RTE product and its ability to streamline access to critical mainframe resources as Web services via a SOA framework and as real-time events within an Event-Driven Architecture Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software architecture pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events. An event can be defined as "a significant change in state"[1]. (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. ). webMethods, a leading business integration and optimization software Free and Open Source software
"To optimize business responsiveness and agility, today's competitive organization requires real-time visibility into its enterprise-wide business processes and a single, SOA-based infrastructure for orchestrating all of its resources both legacy and distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. ," said Arnold Huffman, senior vice president, business development and industry solutions, webMethods, Inc. "webMethods' strategic partnership with DataDirect Technologies provides the market with a robust mainframe service bus, enabling us to offer transactional support for mainframe environments and rich data and event-level integration." CA, one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies has certified the Shadow RTE mainframe integration software as interoperable with CA-IDMS[TM] /DB database online applications, further enabling enterprises to easily and flexibly extend mainframe resources as Web services in SOA initiatives with Shadow RTE. "One year ago, industry pundits at Gartner and Forrester predicted the Shadow RTE product would have a profound impact on the mainframe integration market, reshaping the competitive landscape and becoming the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. choice for extending legacy transactions as services,' said John Goodson, vice president of product operations for DataDirect Technologies. "Today DataDirect Technologies has delivered on these expectations and continues to reign as the mainframe integration experts and unmatched leader in data connectivity." Product Details and Upcoming Demonstrations The Shadow RTE product deploys natively on 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) z/Series mainframe and serves as a foundation for DataDirect Technologies' industry leading mainframe integration products: the Shadow z/Services product support Web services and SOA; the Shadow z/Events(TM) product leverages events for EDA; the Shadow z/Direct(TM) product supports SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. for direct data access and transactional support; as well as the Shadow z/Presentation(TM) product which supports automatic presentation layer generation for extending screen-based applications to the Web. Demonstrations of the Shadow RTE product will be made at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit, Orlando, Fla., Dec. 4-6 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, booth L. NEON Systems Now DataDirect Technologies NEON Systems was acquired by Progress Software in January 2006 and is now part of DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation. This acquisition of NEON Systems by DataDirect Technologies offers customers a single, comprehensive source for data connectivity products and mainframe integration. About DataDirect Technologies DataDirect Technologies is the software industry's only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world's most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect([R]) products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. , JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database (TM) and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS). For more information, visit www.datadirect.com. DataDirect, DataDirect Technologies, DataDirect Connect, Shadow, Shadow RTE, Shadow z/Direct, Shadow z/Events, Shadow z/Presentation and Shadow z/Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Java and all Java based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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