Information is a perishable item. To stay competitive, companies must be able to make application changes quickly and cost-effectively by leveraging exisiting mainframe applications.
Delta Dental gets a new online verification sytem for its patients, while becoming a revolutionary in the healthcare industry.
With many enterprises having spent millions of dollars to remediate legacy applications for Y2K, it is clear that legacy applications are here to stay. Tools and technologies now exist to extend these applications into the e-business world, while re-platforming them onto powerful, but low cost Unix or NT servers.
"E-COBOL," the marriage of COBOL-based programming and e-commerce, gives COBOL-trained companies a chance to enter the ever-expanding market of e-business with as little difficulty as possible.
With their hands in everything from spirits and wine, to music and film entertainment, industry icon Seagram moves their mainframe applications in their entirety to a new platform, so that each business in their North American operation can maintain autonomy.
Whether you choose Data Link Switching or Enterprise Extender, adopting an SNA over IP solution offers you the chance to pump up your e-business strategy, reduce the costs of your IT department and increase the profits of your business units.
There is a revolution happening in the enterprise -- sharing core data is becoming a prerequisite for successful business activities in the new electronic economy.