Mainframe Integration
More than 60 percent of the world's “system of record” data is on mainframes. In other words, you’re not alone in navigating the complexity of mainframe integration. The question is: how are you going to leverage your investment in mainframe technology in the new world of SOA?
What if you could SOA-enable all of your mainframe assets with a single product?
Progress® Shadow® gives you a single, unified architecture that extends SOA to incorporate mainframe-based business logic, data and screen processes—virtually all mainframe assets. It makes the mainframe a first-class citizen in a distributed SOA environment. Shadow uniquely exploits native mainframe technologies to optimize performance, security and operational cost.
The Progress Difference
"Using Web services built [with] Shadow and [implementing] SOA proved to be a critical piece in the company's ability to transform its legacy systems into applications that more effectively provided its agents with policy and customer relationship information."
- Les Freund, former Kansas City Life CTO and enterprise architecture consultant
Mainframe integration without tears—Progress Shadow is the only single, unified architecture to integrate virtually every asset on your mainframe to your SOA without the cost and complexity of point solutions. Shadow gives you a reusable infrastructure for all of your mainframe integration requirements so you don’t have to buy, install and manage a separate point solution for each and every project.
Drive your business in real-time with mainframe business events—Only Progress Shadow adapts your mainframe assets for event-driven integration and SOA. Changes on the mainframe are captured, filtered and enriched in real time and immediately communicated to your business.
Don’t waste MIPS on mainframe integration—Shadow’s patent-pending architecture takes advantage of IBM’s mainframe specialty engines so you can integrate the mainframe with fewer General Purpose Processor MIPS. As a result, you dramatically reduce your operational costs without using off-host gateways that increase complexity and compromise quality-of-service.