GT Software and Actional Partner to Provide Secure Mainframe Web Services Solutions
ATLANTA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – November 8, 2004 – Atlanta-based GT Software, a leading provider of mainframe integration solutions and Actional Corporation, a leading provider of SOA enablement solutions, today announced that Actional has joined the GT Software Partner program to give customers using the GT Software Ivory™ Web services product the ability to securely extend the benefits of native mainframe Web services. With this partnership, the two companies will leverage each other's sales channels.
"Organizations worldwide are under tremendous pressure to reduce total cost of ownership and more fully utilize existing IT investments. Many of these organizations are using GT software to recapitalize on their legacy assets via Web services," said Steve Able, CTO of GT Software. "Actional provides organizations with the critical infrastructure technology required to secure and manage Web services, from early projects to more mature service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations. With their combined solutions, Actional and GT Software help customers reduce cost and complexity, and ease the deployment and reuse of services for business-critical applications."
Ivory Web Services offer an innovative solution for companies that want to move ahead with an SOA framework but still need to communicate with lBM legacy applications in order to provide enterprise-wide service routines. With Ivory, mainframe legacy applications can communicate seamlessly with open systems platforms, such as J2EE, .NET and others. Ivory is a unique solution that performs Web services and generates WSDL without the need to write programs. Ivory Studio gives you the ability to select fields across any existing mainframe application and create a single, multi-function WSDL with advanced functionality. Ivory is an effective way to provide enterprise Web services to drive the needs of your business.
"GT Software and Actional offers seamless integration of Ivory's generated WSDL with Actional's SOA security and management solutions, shrinking deployment cycles and accelerating time to benefit" said Kerry Champion, Actional's chief strategy officer. "Once deployed, our joint offering enables organizations to fully leverage their legacy assets across multiple applications, multiple departments and multiple domains, significantly increasing the ROI of each of these assets, and greatly increasing IT's ability to respond to change and stay aligned with the business."
As a leading provider of SOA enablement solutions, Actional Corporation addresses the specific challenges of securing, deploying and managing service-oriented environments, from early Web services projects to enterprisewide SOA initiatives. The company's sole mission is to keep customers' SOAs secure and operational 24/7, making Actional the choice of leading organizations around the world including Danish Immigration Service, Partners Healthcare, Thomson Prometric, MCI, Telstra, Travelers, the U.S. government and others. With Actional's SOA Command and Control Platform, customers can reduce costs and ease the complexity of SOA deployments, thereby increasing the responsiveness of IT, accelerating time-to-market of business-critical applications and capitalizing on the business value of their SOA. Actional, which recently merged with Westbridge Technology, is a privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif. www.actional.com.
