Partners to Demonstrate Combined Solution at SHARE Boston
Waltham, MA, July 28, 2010 – Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.activevos.com) and GT Software today announced a marketing partnership designed to increase awareness of the importance of mainframes in business process management (BPM). The two companies will present how the ActiveVOS™ Business Process Management System (BPMS) and GT Software’s Ivory® Service Architect can be used together to implement BPM at the SHARE mainframe users group conference in Boston, MA from August 1-5, 2010.
Mainframe applications remain a crucial component of many organizations’ operations. Mainframe users continue to create new applications and spend significant resources to enhance existing mainframe applications. Without an effective way to integrate mainframe technologies into process applications, the benefits that organizations seek by moving to BPM would be diluted.
“As benefits from BPM are realized and usage expands, more and more organizations are faced with the reality of using mainframe applications and data in their executable business processes,” said Jim Sinur, Vice President, Gartner Research. “To make this work, including the mainframe should enhance, not hinder, the benefits expected from BPM -- it needs to be delivered as fast as BPM, as iteratively as BPM, and leverage resources as effectively as BPM. In short – organizations need ‘BPM for the mainframe’ to ensure the benefits from BPM are not lost when the mainframe participates.”
Using ActiveVOS and Ivory together ensures that the BPM objective of integrating both people and systems is achieved by permitting the integration of mainframe applications. First, Ivory can be utilized to design a web service that is a composite of individual transactions and database accesses from the majority of popular mainframe systems. Then, ActiveVOS can be employed to model and deploy the overall business process, including Ivory-created web services. In this way, mainframe assets – no matter how granular or proprietary – are available to be used in BPM applications.
“We are very pleased to be able to demonstrate how effective the integration of mainframes and BPM are at SHARE Boston,” said Leslie Minasian, partner manager, Active Endpoints, Inc. “Together, ActiveVOS and Ivory offer development teams an attractive way to ensure that process applications include organizations’ most important automated systems.”
“As an organization embarks on the path to BPM, the mainframe cannot be ignored as it provides the core systems and foundation of information in many organizations,” said Rob Morris, chief strategy officer for GT Software. “The challenge has been how to include this platform into a BPM strategy because the approach is so radically different. Ivory Service Architect provides direct access to CICS, IMS, CA Ideal, CA IDMS and other mainframe systems via Web services, and when coupled with ActiveVOS, delivers a seamless BPM solution.”
ActiveVOS 7 enables the entire development team – developers, business analysts, operations staff and managers – to model, develop, test, deploy and manage process applications affordably, quickly and compatibly. Based on a highly productive BPMN 2.0 modeler that executes processes using the native language of services, BPEL, ActiveVOS offers a complete, all-in-one approach to BPM that quickly achieves business objectives while revolutionizing the entire development process.
GT Software’s Ivory Service Architect combines a high-performance mainframe integration architecture coupled with world-class development tooling to address the myriad of requirements for mainframe web service integration faced by large enterprises. The Ivory Suite offers a complete product family for integrating the mainframe – application logic, business logic, and mainframe data. The Ivory product family is standards based, with support for numerous mainframe and Web service standards.
Active Endpoints and GT Software will be located at Booth 323 at SHARE Boston. Click here for registration information and conference details.
