58) Discussion about Successful Strategies of Mainframe SOA

The SOA development solutions provider, GT Software, announced official sponsorship for the "Success Strategies and Best Practices for Mainframe SOA" topic, a webinar of Integration Consortium. The live event is scheduled for Tuesday, November 13th 2007 at 11:30am (EST), and is free of charge for the public. The webinar will feature Steve Craggs, Lustratus founder and European Chair of Integration Consortium, and Glenn Schneck, the CICS and MQSeries expert on z/Series at Suntrust Banks.

The Integration Consortium consists of parties are that are all for non-profit, and represents any type of integration. The mission of this highly member-driven collective is to provide a platform for discussion and debate.

Lustratus provides highly independent worldwide market analysis and advocacy. The focus of the company is on integration and SOA, thereby allowing the customer to clearly see what impact current technology advances will have on their business. Rob Morris, CSO of GT Software, pointed out, "There are critical data and also applications existing on the platform of mainframe. Recently, enterprises increasing regard SOA as an idea to protect the investments when transferring to an environment of Web services. We advice all sites with consideration of SOA to participate in and listen to Glenn Schneck and Steve Craggs's advice." The Integration Consortium plans many events that are focused on SOA issues, an area that GT Software has become a leader in by providing quality SOA software and services. The formulated solutions integrate mainframe resources, thus allowing SOA plans to work hand in hand with the mainframe. The developers can easily place together and publish web oriented services from GT Software solutions. Developers are also able to create correct composite services given current mainframe assets with very little to no prior training.

About the Integration Consortium (IC)
The Integrated Consortium allows the members of the community to utilize multiple forums in order to share knowledge and best practices. It is also to allow leading IT professionals with similar backgrounds the ability to advance business by using both the traditional systems integration as well as the more agile SOA to reap better business results. Members consist of corporate end users, academic establishments, industry captains, system integrators, non profit institutions, independent software suppliers, and unique software suppliers.

About GT Software
Founded in 1982, GT Software is an Atlanta-based provider of rapid SOA development solutions that also integrates mainframe resources, thus making the mainframe useful in SOA plans. GT Software products allow mainframe developers to rapidly and effortlessly model, automate, and lengthen mainframe processes for deployment of core components of any enterprise Service Oriented Architecture solution. With over 2,000 installations globally, GT Software offers high-quality, original and cost-effective solutions for several of the Fortune 1000 companies.