GT Software and Oracle Work to Support Mainframe Web Services and Business Process Management

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Companies Work Together to Leverage Mainframe-based Resources to be consumed as web services in the business process

Atlanta, GA - May 3, 2005 - GT Software, Inc., a leading provider of mainframe integration solutions and member of the Oracle® PartnerNetwork, today announced that it has teamed with Oracle to leverage Oracle BPEL Process Manager to build solutions that deliver service-oriented architectures (SOAs). This partnership enables the simple integration of BPEL Process Manager and mainframe Web services.

"Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides the next step in the evolution of Web services. Combined with Ivory™ mainframe Web services, the whole enterprise can now participate in SOA," Wilson Rains, VP of Alliances, GT Software.

"Web services play a critical role in enabling companies to move their mainframe environments to a SOA," said Amlan Debnath, vice president, Server Technologies, Oracle. "For companies that want to include mainframe in their SOA strategy, Ivory and Oracle BPEL Process Manager provide the foundation for orchestrating enterprise-wide processes that bridge the gap between the old and new."

GT Software's Ivory Web services allow enterprises to develop and deploy Web services, which expose mainframe-based resources that can be consumed as business processes in the BPEL flow. Ivory composite services can execute multiple mainframe resources in one SOAP request.

The Web services are developed using the Ivory Studio on the desktop and deployed on Ivory Server running on the mainframe. Once deployed, the Web service can be included in the BPEL flow as any other callable service.

Ivory Studio is a PC-based IDE that provides common ground for mainframe programmers and PC developers to use existing business logic to drive new SOAP services. The drag-and-drop graphical modeler provides "end-to-end" representations of business logic and data flow. The graphical models present complex business processing in an easy-to-follow diagram. Ivory Studio provides SOAP-based Web services for CICS Transaction Server applications via 3270 Bridge, CICS COMMAREA, and direct VSAM file processing. Ivory Studio provides the means to design a SOAP Web service for existing business logic, and to deploy the process without having to write any program code.

Ivory is a trademark of GT Software, Inc.. Oracle, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.