Mainframe Integration with SAP

Easily integrate SAP with your mainframe 

As companies migrate applications to SAP, they often need to integrate SAP with mainframe applications. Ivory Service Architect and Ivory Data Access allow direct integration from SAP to legacy applications as well as data. Ivory will also enable legacy applications to access SAP modules and data rather than replicating that functionality or data.

Direct integration from SAP to legacy applications and data significantly increases the value of SAP and your mainframe.  

Benefits to your organization include:

Saving time, reducing risk, and increasing productivity by replacing multiple systems with a single system, such as employee log-on capabilities.

Preserving your mainframe investment in applications and business logic, and ensuring reuseability.

Maintaining synchronization between systems so all systems are updated with the same information, decreasing errors and rework.  

Consider these real-world usage scenarios: 
  • A customer service improvement initiative prompted a major payroll processing company to find a solution that would bridge its legacy VSAM-based CRM system to its new SAP CRM platform. Using Ivory, the company now has access to its legacy CRM data on the mainframe from SAP, while also introducing single sign-on capabilities, which eliminated the need for employees to log into multiple disparate systems, saving time, reducing risk, and increasing productivity.
  • One major US based defense contractor set out to move a majority of core business functions to SAP, and it was critical to preserve the investment of thousands of mainframe apps and business logic. By deploying Ivory, the company integrated its disparate mainframe applications, including CICS, IMS, and CA IDMS, while others were migrated to SAP – and preserved its mainframe services for reusability. 
  • A leading European management agency deployed SAP to its various divisions for a new system of records for land parcels, and was challenged with how to maintain synchronization between its CA IDMS data and SAP. Using Ivory, the company built a service that automatically updated SAP Oracle each time an update is made on the online mainframe system, in addition to delivering nightly batch updates.