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.
There is a revolution happening in the enterprise -- sharing core data is becoming a prerequisite for successful business activities in the new electronic economy.
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.
Delta Dental gets a new online verification sytem for its patients, while becoming a revolutionary in the healthcare industry.
Changing business needs and technological advancements are prompting many companies to migrate their legacy applications to the Web. Java offers a cost-effective and flexible solution.
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.
With data centers expected to be running 100 percent of the time, network arrays are a must to improve peroformance and availability of fast ethernet, token-ring and FDDI networks.
With widespread recognition of the value that Web technology can provide, there is a tremendous pull on expanding its use. When integrating host access in this dynamic environment, the ability to prioritize, maintain flexibility and support HTML directly is crucial.
"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.
When addressing the challenge of delivering enterprisewide applications, the combination of generations of components has brought about a new model for delivering strategic applications -- the integration-centric model.
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.