You've decided on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), but you have a huge investment in all those mainframe resources - applications, data, people, the platform itself. They keep your business running. They are robust, reliable, secure and powerful. How do you leverage the mainframe in your SOA as an equal and active participant? Your developers have in-depth knowledge of your mainframe code and applications. You need multi-operation business services to garner the advantages of SOA. How do you marry your developers' knowledge to the ability to identify and create such services? And most importantly, how do you make it happen NOW, when you need it, with the resources on hand - instead of someday, when you've had time to retrain everyone, or when you've had an outside consultant onsite so long that he's part of the family?
The answer is Ivory® from GT Software, an innovative development solution that enables organizations to rapidly implement an SOA that fully leverages the mainframe as an active participant in your SOA.
Ivory is the leading solution for enterprises with an existing investment in these mainframe technologies
While Ivory offers virtually universal access to any asset on the mainframe, it also delivers cutting-edge support for XML and Web Services standards.
Ivory Service Architect supports the import of reference XML Schemas, like ACORD. This is unique to Ivory, and very important in terms of standardizing on the data types leveraged within mainframe web services. It also ensures consistency, as the developers do not need to hand build complex data types for each and every service (ACORD data types can contain 10’s to 1000’s of elements).
Ivory also is the unparalleled leader in support for XML standards. As your organization moves beyond simply Web-service enabling a transaction, support for many of the below standards becomes critical.
