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Micro Focus announced the availability of SOA Express 8.0.
The new version adds support for direct deployment into IBM's Customer
Information Control System (CICS), enabling users to accelerate the deployment
of Web services by reusing their existing CICS TS mainframe infrastructure in a
simplified and even faster 2-Tier model. This additional support provides
customers with more options for their service oriented architecture (SOA)
deployment environment. In addition to CICS, SOA Express supports SOA deployments
over .Net and J2EE application servers. As a result, organizations are able to
migrate existing, core applications to an SOA as Web services regardless of
platform or technology base.
SOA provides a strategic route to web enablement, integration and modernization
of existing applications, providing rapid delivery of new business initiatives.
Micro Focus SOA Express enables the reuse and modernization of existing
mainframe applications without code changes by unlocking the business logic
embedded within these applications and delivering them to an SOA. Standards
based Web services can then be utilized by teams across the organization
rendering proven COBOL business logic accessible to Java, .NET and Web teams
for extension across the enterprise.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina is using SOA Express to replace their
existing Web and desktop enablement solution. "The ability to provide our
customers and the customer service staff with rapid and accurate access to
information is core to our business. SOA Express has enabled us to deliver Web
and desktop access with dramatically improved performance on our platform of
choice," said Keith Wild, Director of Internal Resource Management at
BC/BSSC.
SOA Express enables a standards-based SOA architecture as part of a performance
improvement initiative. "The ability with SOA Express to utilize the high
speed LINKCICS interface was critical to us. We needed to rapidly deliver the
much needed performance improvement while preserving our existing business
systems," added Wild.
Commenting on the topic, Randy Heffner, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, noted that, "SOA's improved flexibility allows you to change quickly to meet changing business demands. It's not just industry hype, either. SOA is delivering results that make people want more of it.”
"You can implement SOA incrementally, starting with small, near-term requirements and later expanding SOA usage as other business needs arise. And you don't have to invest heavily to build an extensive architecture before you can see real benefits. You can use SOA to leverage existing applications and infrastructure to solve business problems without having to rebuild everything from scratch. These benefits make SOA attractive to IT shops that are working to deliver business transformation and flexibility via faster, lower-cost integration and solution delivery." (Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture", Forrester Research, Inc., June 2007).
One of the key drivers for a successful modernization initiative is the ability to integrate disparate applications - whether they are off the mainframe, based on newer technologies or even generated outside the enterprise. At the same time, it is critical to maintain the functionality and utility of the core applications being moved to SOA.
Stuart McGill, CTO, Micro Focus observes, "SOA Express enables our customers to take the value housed in these critical, existing applications at the heart of their business and translate them into Web services that meet new, strategic infrastructure requirements - all without changing the original business logic that makes them so valuable. Following our recently announced offer to acquire NetManage, we look forward to further strengthening our SOA solution portfolio."
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