Extend IBM iSeries Systems to the Web and Beyond

IBM iSeries Systems are prevalent in medium to large organizations worldwide, running mission critical business applications. Companies with these systems that wish to expand the usage to the Web or integrate with their partners and suppliers often face technical challenges. OnWeb for iSeries allows companies to quickly turn inefficient green screen applications into graphical Web-based applications. Furthermore, OnWeb transforms business processes locked in to iSeries Systems into components that are capable of integrating with almost any other application. All this is accomplished without changing the business logic of the application Ð lowering the risk and the cost of deploying new business solutions.

OnWeb for iSeries offers a comprehensive yet easy-to-use development and deployment platform that can be used by non iSeries experts to transform these legacy systems into modern Web applications. In addition, OnWeb for iSeries has built-in flexibility that allows companies to fine-tune various deployment options based on the types of users and their roles within the company.

Understand, plan, and model legacy based services to get maximum value out of SOA projects.

SOA Planner is a server product designed to non-invasively provide a bird's eye view of user interactions with host systems, and therefore business processes, that serve as the foundation and starting point for SOA deployments. The data highlights the most used business transactions that may generate the most cost savings and benefit to the enterprise.

The first step to any SOA project is to take inventory of systems and system usage. Large enterprises use legacy systems for business critical applications. These systems are incredibly stable and because of this, have been able to run for many years. Typically, systems are maintained and run in a variety of locations and by a variety of departments. It can be a daunting challenge by the service architects to locate and service enable transactions on these systems. For example, a major health care provider has over 100 mainframes within the organization. On each mainframe, there are at least 10 applications, and within each application there are numerous transactions. Figuring out what transactions and on what servers to service enable is a challenge. With SOA Planner transactions are captured as they happen in everyday business by the end users. This will give the organization an understanding as to what systems are being used, what servers are being used, which applications and which transactions are used most. This report forms the beginnings of realistic service modeling to create a 'usable blueprint' of transactions.

See http://www.netmanage.com/products/onweb/onwebiseries.asp for more information.

NetManage Incremental SOA - 1MB - Acrobat File