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Mainframe Integration Technical Resources & Multimedia
Welcome to the Shadow technical resource and multimedia page. We've worked hard to provide you with numerous Technical Demos, Webinars, Podcasts and WhitePapers. Click through the below tabs to see more detail, and be sure to check back often - we are continually creating new resources.
Cost Effective Strategies for Mainframe Modernization
No question - mainframes continue to provide a secure, high-performance and scalable computing platform. Replay a webinar that shows mainframe modernization strategies that accelerate development and cut expenses. You’ll learn about cost-effective tools that enable interoperability with data integration and SOA infrastructures, so your mainframe can participate fully in diverse business and technology activities.
Expanding Your Market with Cost Effective Mainframe Data Connectivity
Customers demand access to data regardless of where it resides. DataDirect Technologies has forged its reputation by helping define industry standards for data connectivity. Replay informative webinar where we explore the features and benefits of Shadow version7, a new benchmark in mainframe data connectivity.
Mainframes at Your Service: Best Practices for Mainframe SOA Integration
What are the best practices for integrating mainframes into wider SOA and Web Services infrastructures? The powerful applications and data for which mainframe systems are known can prove valuable in developing and expanding business services. The key to unveiling the full potential of the mainframe lies in choosing the correct middleware integration strategy. Listen as Bloor Research analyst Martin Banks and Progress technologies for this informative web seminar to learn how you can achieve the business advantages of mainframe SOA and data connectivity.
Re-Discovering IT Optimization in Financial Services
Business and IT leaders have never had more compelling reasons to work together than in facing today’s economic challenges. Both are confronted with severe budget constraints while simultaneously being challenged to rapidly integrate disparate entities and technologies in order to meet the demands of a new reality. In this webcast we address the following key questions: What do business leaders need to understand about these concepts in aligning cost and performance expectations for the technologies used in their business?; which concepts are key to specific business value and which are more about broader IT performance?; when should business leaders support new IT spending and when should they expect IT to leverage existing resources for new value?
Breaking the SOA Price Barrier for Mainframes With zIIP Exploitation
The value of information technology is rapidly accelerating for organizations who rely on mainframe platforms - due in part to innovations in middleware design that are breaking down the economic barriers to mainframe participation in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Listen as experts from Mainframe Executive, WinterGreen Research and Progress technologies to learn how your organization can lower mainframe TCO and accelerate new mainframe SOA initiatives.
Significantly Increase Mainframe Web Services ROI
Rebecca Wettemann, VP of Nucleus Research presents a case study analysis of a global financial services firm that deployed Progresst Shadow and its mainframe Web services technology at the early stages of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption. This strategy enabled the company to leverage existing mainframe assets while increasing developer productivity and the ability to deliver new applications to customers. Results: ROI: 150%, Payback: 11 months
When Business Intelligence Meets Mainframe Data, Good Things Can Happen
Learn what other customers have already discovered about the benefits of real-time mainframe data access when coupled with Oracle’s premier Business Intelligence platform. Shadow’s industry standard access and built-in data mapping integrates seamlessly with Oracle BIEE for reduced complexity and faster results – and lower mainframe TCO with Shadow’s unique zIIP specialty engine exploitation.
Avoiding SOA Paralysis: Cutting The Costs of Mainframe SOA for Insurance
In this webcast, we will explore how insurance organizations can cost effectively utilize SOA to accelerate application modernization, essentially making SOA viable for the business. Join Insurance and Technology, Celent and Progress technologies for this important webinar on the economic realities of SOA in the Insurance industry, revealing new patent-pending technologies that can dramatically lower the costs of mainframe SOA enablement.
zIIP Specialty Engine Exploitation
Lower Mainframe Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by diverting up to 99% of data and SOA integration workloads from the mainframe General Purpose Processor (GPP) to the zIIP specialty engine.
A Flexible Approach to Mainframe Migration
When mainframe migration is a requirement, Progress® Shadow® can provide a flexible, industry-standard SOA solution, that is developer friendly and makes the best use of existing skills and resources.
Bloor In-Detail Report - Shadow v7
By incorporating Shadow into their solutions, ISVs can expand their potential market by including initial or expanded access to mainframe assets as well as enhance their solution TCO by leveraging the most cost effective mainframe integration product on the market.
Removing the Mainframe Price Barrier from Enterprise Integration
Mainframes play a critical role in a wide range of enterprises, but in order to extract the maximum value and benefit from these systems they must be integrated with other business-valued applications and systems. This white paper shows how next-generation mainframe middleware can leverage IBM's zIIP and zAAP specialty engines to redefine the economics of mainframe TCO within SOA.
Progress Shadow
Progress Shadow is a single, standards-based integration architecture that offers a comprehensive tool set for enterprise developers who wish to extend core mainframe data and applications into more modern computing environments.
Shadow z/Direct
Progress Shadow z/Direct enables direct SQL access to mainframe programs and data stored in an array of relational and non-relational formats.
Shadow z/Events
To facilitate mainframe Complex Event Processing (CEP), Progress Shadow z/Events provides robust Change Data Capture (CDC) for managing data (state changes) events that occur within mainframe databases.
Shadow z/Services
Progress Shadow z/Services is an enterprise-class SOA enablement solution that allows core mainframe systems to serve as both providers and consumers of Web services functionality.
Shadow z/Presentation
Progress Shadow z/Presentation provides an enterprise-class tool for
extending mainframe, screen-based applications to the Web, eliminating the
use of cryptic codes and fields or archaic green “screen- scraping” technologies,
and providing the flexibility to combine multiple 3270-screens into a user friendly
Web interface.
Shadow Support for ADABAS
If your organization has business critical applications that need to integrate with mainframe-based Adabas data, then you should check out this brochure.
Shadow Support for CICS
Progress Shadow supports multiple, parallel integration methods, and reduces the complexity of CICS integration by enabling developers to eliminate redundant, point-to-point integration technologies, resulting in less maintenance, lower costs and fewer points of risk.
Shadow Support for DB2
Progress Shadow supports multiple, parallel integration methods and reduces the complexity of DB2 integration resulting in less maintenance, lower costs and fewer points of risk.
Shadow Support for VSAM
Progress Shadow is a comprehensive mainframe integration
solution that delivers a full range of mainframe modernization options for VSAM.
Shadow for ISVs
For independent software vendors, Progress Shadow can help increase a product’s value by expanding its scope to leverage data residing on IBM System z mainframes and by lowering customer costs for accessing mainframe data with your product.
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