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Mainframe SOA Research Report from The Clipper Group

For a More Secure SOA at Less Cost, Use System z and DataDirect
December 3, 2007, Navigator Report – Analyst Anne Mac Farland

Mainframe TCO Research Report from the 451Group

DataDirect exploits mainframe specialty engines with latest Shadow release Nov 1, 2007 – Impact Report, Analyst John Abbott – Sector, Enterprise Software

Gartner Research Report: DataDirect Offering Suggests a Future for IBM Specialty Engines

Additional information on the benefits of mainframe specialty engines can be found in the recent Gartner, Inc. report, DataDirect Offering Suggests Future for IBM Specialty Engines by Dale Vecchio and Massimo Pezzini, Nov. 13, 2007

Shadow z/Services Connectivity for Mainframe Applications
Mainframe Integration; Connectivity

Imagine if the business rules encapsulated in mainframe systems could instantly be made available to the latest breed of .Net and Java developers. Would skills and training continue to be an obstacle for legacy integration if new developers did not need to understand COBOL? Shadow z/Services provides connectivity to mainframe applications through the ESB. The implementation of Shadow z/Services provides for the highest development productivity for Web enablement and Web services projects which require access to mainframe applications. Customers around the globe have chosen Shadow z/Services as the technology to enable mainframe applications to integrate into their SOA.

Mainframe Migration - How Shadow z/Services Plays a Critical Role
Mainframe Integration; Migration

With NEON, applications/subsystems are migrated in a controlled approached but are still accessible by the core mainframe applications that still resided on the mainframe and continue to run the daily business. Customers have the opportunity to utilize a proven solution which enables the migration of mainframe applications to lower cost platforms and addresses many of the above issues. NEON offers a breakthrough, patent-pending product, Shadow z/Services, which facilitates the only realistic approach for application/platform migration from the mainframe.

Migrating Legacy to a Service-Oriented Architecture
Mainframe Integration; Service Oriented Architecture

Despite the continued reliance on legacy computing, enterprise technology has evolved at an exponential rate over the last decade. While most of these new technologies failed to make the leap from theory to practical adoption and on to persistence, one vision - the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - is revolutionizing the way developers think about building enterprise applications. In short, the SOA offers more than just technological hype but instead promises to deliver a standardized way to develop and deploy enterprise applications.

Optimize Mainframe Data and Business Event Capture To Support Advanced Business Intelligence
Mainframe Integration; Shadow Studio

This white paper will elaborate on the impact of imprtant issues on traditional approaches to making mainframe data available to Business Intelligence (BI). It will define the broad set of requirements for effective BI, where mainframe data access is a requirement. It will show how NEON's Shadow Event Publisher, with its unique, state-of-the-art Change Data Capture (CDC) approach, is the only viable mainframe data synchronization solution to deploy in conjunction with today's leading ETL, data integration and Business Activity Monitoring technologies.

Reducing the Complexity of Building New J2EE and .NET Applications in Adabas and Natural
Mainframe Integration: J2EE and .NET Applications in Adabas and Natural

Shadow enables distributed applications to access mainframe resources through flexible industry-standard APIs such as J2CA, JDBC, and ODBC. Shadow supports all popular IDEs (integrated development environments) including J2EE and .NET. In addition, open standards make Shadow plug-and-play compatible with next-generation development environments.

The Value of Transactional Integrity: Distributed Transactions and the Mainframe
Mainframe Integration: Distributed Transactions

NEON Systems' Shadow product suite has the most complete support for RRS of any mainframe integration technology. It supports the various versions of RRS APIs seamlessly.

ZapThink: The Mainframe as a First Class SOA Participant
Mainframe Integration

In this whitepaper, ZapThink research analyst Jason Bloomberg explores the challenges customers face when attempting to integrate their legacy systems with new technologies and architectures, and the issues associated with traditional mainframe integration methods. He guides the reader to a better understanding and approach that involves a single mainframe architecture for reduced complexity, cost and risk.

The Hidden Costs of Commodity - Mainframe Adapters
Mainframe Integration

This discussion paper seeks to identify some of the strategies useful for assessing the real costs associated with mainframe integration. Vendors of general-purpose, commodity mainframe adapters such as iWay Software, and Attunity seek to differentiate their technologies on purchase price and a “one-size fits all” approach to adapters across their various supported platforms. Where a general-purpose adapter vendor is forced to support upwards of 200 various adapter and platform combinations, it is virtually impossible for any one combination to become a domain leader. While this may not be a problem for point integration requirements with little mission-criticality, in the world of the mainframe it becomes an enormous compromise.

Accelerating the Return on Mainframe Investments: WebLogic with Shadow® Mainframe Adapters
Mainframe Integration: BEA WebLogic

The BEA WebLogic Application Platform Suite and the NEON Shadow adapter environment are both best-of-breed solutions with wide applicability and support. Both aim for simplicity, performance and manageability, and both maximize the productivity of personnel across the enterprise, allowing developers to do more than ever before, and maximizing the value of organizations' current and legacy IT investments. With both product sets, the combination of strict adherence to industry standards, coupled with insight into the business and technology needs of leading organizations creates a high-value solution that integrates seamlessly with today's technology environment, while supporting emerging technologies that hold the promise of even greater business value.

Occam's Razor Guide to Mainframe Integration
Mainframe Integration: Implementing Simplicity

Complexity in commercial computing systems emerges from a relatively narrow set of reasons. Many of these reasons exist in the wake of the shift away from the single-vendor, vertically integrated solutions of the 1970s and 1980s. Cost savings from the increased competition brought by a move to a more varied vendor environment have been offset by the increased systems management and consulting costs required to implement systems that are no longer integrated at source. Standards and other initiatives, aimed at making systems from various vendors compatible, are an important step toward mitigating some of these costs, but will certainly not eliminate all of them; the most intractable exist as a fundamental consequence of the modern computing landscape.

A Strategy for Implementing Event-Driven Architecture on IBM z/OS Mainframes
Mainframe Integration: Real Time Events

This whitepaper offers guidance to executives charged with the responsibility of reducing latency within the business systems of large, mainframe-dependent organizations. It looks at the technology and approaches available for a successful event-driven architecture, which can support business events that occur within mainframe systems.

Reducing the Complexity of Mainframe Integration: Through a Single Unified Platform for Mainframe Integration
Mainframe Integration

For organizations with significant investments in mainframe systems, Shadow dramatically reduces the cost and complexity associated with mainframe integration. A single unified platform for mainframe integration translates into faster development and deployment of new, high value applications, streamlined business processes and real-time access to enterprise data and logic, regardless of where it resides within the enterprise.