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Legacy Modernization Via Service Enablement

Bridging the gap between long-term strategy and daily line-of-business needs

The critical need for legacy modernization is no surprise to today’s businesses. What is a surprise: how easy the task can be. This solution portal offers a variety of resources to help you quickly unlock your legacy applications, service enable them, and reuse them with emerging technologies.

Attachmate can help you modernize your legacy applications without breaking your established business operations or your budget. That means core enterprise assets can particiate as needed in new business-driven realms.

Why Attachmate?

Because Attachmate has been solving mainframe access and integration problems for 30 years, the legacy-modernization challenge is tailor-made for our proficiency and experience. And we are proving conclusively that legacy systems are not as “locked up” as commonly believed.

Imagine: What if you could …

  • Respond to changing business needs without adversely impacting your present IT systems? 
  • Continuously reuse your enterprise applications, however and whenever needed, while leaving the legacy logic in place? 
  • Use a rapid, low-risk method of wrapping  your application components as services so newer technologies can plug into them? 
  • Have a modernization option available for applications that do not justify the time or expense of a full message enabled infrastructure? 

With Attachmate Verastream service enablement solutions, you can do all that, and more.

Verastream – Your Answer to Business-Driven Service Enablement

The Verastream suite is tailored to enable rapid legacy modernization. And with Verastream, you can do it without making your modernization project bigger than your driving business requirement. Below is the conceptual ‘recipe’ for rapid service enablement.

conceptual ‘recipe’ for rapid service enablement

 

The resources below offer timely information on service enablement.

Technology Solutions
Verastream Host Integrator
Encapsulates data and logic via the screen interface to transform your enterprise host applications into SOA assets.
Verastream Bridge Integrator
Provides a distributed approach—requiring no embedded code—for including CICS applications in your SOA.
Verastream Transaction Integrator
Offers direct transaction access to programs in the CICS and IMS environments, making them available to your SOA.
Verastream Process Designer
Lets you orchestrate your services to create new business workflows, in ways you never could before.

Quick Demos
Try out the most advanced ways to do legacy service enablement and orchestration.
Six-minute demo on legacy service enablement
Five-Minute demo on legacy service orchestration

Solution Brief
Service Enablement and Beyond: How Verastream Legacy Modernization Solutions Can Get You There

 
White Papers
A Business-Driven Approach to Legacy Modernization: Rapid service enablement via small, orchestrated steps
Fundamentals of Service Orientation
Turning Financial Mainframe Applications into SOA Building Blocks
Legacy Modernization Survey: Results show SOA-enablement trend, accompanied by popular misconceptions
More white papers

SOA Webcasts
Service-Enabling Legacy Applications: Where to Start
Extending Legacy to SOA
Turning Mainframe Banking and Insurance Applications Into SOA Building Blocks 
More webcasts

Real Time Publishers eSeries
SOA and Mainframe Applications
Learn best practices for reusing existing data and logic with newer technologies.
Mainframe Application Modernization
Get tips and techniques for speeding up service-enablement of valuable legacy assets.
Customer Stories Summary
San Bernardino (Calif.) County Streamlined traffic-ticket processing by automating data entry into master green-screen application.
Providence Hospital Modernized, integrated, and accelerated access to patient data stored on mainframes and AS/400s.
Freightliner Extracted shipping data from mainframe application to provide real-time online tracking information.
Century-National Insurance Service-enabled HP-based applications to give brokers and agents a customized web application.
More customer stories

 

Videos

Video: Verastream Host Integrator

An engineer’s view of using server domains and load distribution.

An engineer’s view of using server domains and load distribution

PDFs

e-Series: Mainframe Application Modernization

Mainframe Modernization: Don’t Do It! (until you read this eSeries)

Mainframe Modernization: Don’t Do It!
(until you read this eSeries)

Complete, three-part series available now