PeerLogic, Inc. and SRA International, Inc. Offer Mainframe Cost Reduction Experience to Federal Agencies.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000 PeerLogic(R), Inc., a leading supplier of enterprise-class business integration software, has teamed with SRA International, Inc. to offer federal government agency customers PeerLogic LiveContent TRANS(TM) and LiveContent BATCH(TM) software to reduce IT operating costs and improve performance. The two companies worked together to develop migration strategies, implement cost saving solutions, and design enhancements that have been integrated into LiveContent TRANS. LiveContent TRANS provides an 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) mainframe-compatible software environment on leading UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Microsoft Windows NT servers, enabling organizations to re-host legacy applications on powerful, low-cost systems, resulting in substantial annual operational savings. LiveContent TRANS contains components equivalent to all of the leading software used to run large mainframe applications, including 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 transaction processing, VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method indexed sequential files, DB2 and other relational database support, MVS and DOS/VSE (Disk Operating System/Virtual Storage Extended) An IBM multiuser, multitasking operating system that was widely used on IBM's 43xx series. It used to be called DOS, but due to the abundance of DOS PCs, was later renamed VSE. batch job processing and job control language, together with all required communications connections. LiveContent TRANS has been installed at nearly 700 commercial customer sites in 50 countries. "With about 1400 mainframes installed in federal agencies, the use of LiveContent TRANS on UNIX or Windows NT systems will save taxpayer dollars, and improve performance and customer service," noted Jon Brody, vice president of product marketing at PeerLogic. "Our experience with commercial customers shows that LiveContent TRANS can dramatically reduce costs for most applications." The LiveContent TRANS and LiveContent BATCH products make it possible to easily move mainframe CICS, COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. , PL/1, VSAM, DB2 and batch applications from mainframes to UNIX or Windows NT servers with little or no change to the code or data. This enables these applications to run directly on low-cost, powerful open systems, usually with significant performance improvements. LiveContent TRANS also includes products for real-time performance monitoring, access control list-based security, SNA network integration, and intersystem communication. PeerLogic and SRA, in a teaming arrangement with a government agency and other contractors, have deployed the first federal agency implementation of LiveContent TRANS. LiveContent is a critical component in the migration of a global system from an OS/390 mainframe environment to a Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 Starfire server. Throughout the migration process, PeerLogic and SRA worked with the government to port the system components and to design and implement enhancements to LiveContent TRANS. The most important enhancement was the addition of a Secure Sockets Layer (networking, security) Secure Sockets Layer - (SSL) A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure communications over the Internet using asymmetric key encryption. (SSL) capability to the current TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. based sockets server, which allows the TRANS product to emulate a Web Server interface in addition to CICS. About SRA International, Inc. SRA is an information technology firm that provides systems integration, consulting, and eBusiness and eGovernment services and solutions. The Company specializes in Internet systems development, systems and software engineering, network integration and management, information security, enterprise systems management, and knowledge discovery systems. SRA serves clients in national defense, health care, civil government, law and financial services. The Company's 1,800 employees serve clients from its headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, and offices across the country. Visit http://www.sra.com. About PeerLogic, Inc. PeerLogic, Inc., The LiveContent Company(TM), is a leading international supplier of eBusiness software delivering Web-to-enterprise solutions to more than 2000 customers worldwide. LiveContent(TM) integrates information systems to deliver XML and Java-based "smart content" to Internet portals. Firms depend on LiveContent for complete 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 and B2C applications supporting thousands of simultaneous users 24 hours a day. Leading companies like BNP BNP B-type natriuretic peptide, brain natriuretic peptide Physiology A 32-residue peptide hormone produced predominantly in the ventricles, secreted in response to fluid overload–eg, CHF. See Atrial natriuretic peptide. PARIBUS, Bell Atlantic, British Aerospace, British Telecom, Critical Path, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Entrust, Express Scripts, General Electric, Swiss Post, Vodafone UK Limited, and Volkswagen rely on PeerLogic to safely extend their IT investments to the Internet economy and gain easily measured business results. Visit http://www.peerlogic.com |
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