Paul Roth

Over many decades, IT organizations have invested billions of dollars in business logic and data housed in mainframes and within the CICS environment. Despite the age of these systems, the mainframe and CICS continue to provide the most scalable, reliable, and cost-effective platform upon which to conduct critical business operations. Yet expanding the ROI of these systems by leveraging more modern technologies, such as Web services, continues to be a challenge. Today's business environment requires an IT solution that will transform existing, rigid systems into flexible building blocks to enable a component-based, process-centric, and cross-platform integration environment. By adding an integration platform based on a service-oriented architecture, organizations can unlock critical mainframe resources and leverage data and business logic as services, allowing an or... (more)