Leading French Automaker Moves Towards Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture
ATLANTA, September 10, 2008 – GT Software today announced that the automobile manufacturer Heuliez France has selected the company’s Ivory Service Architect to improve and modernize its mainframe CICS applications. GT Software is a leading global provider of rapid service oriented architecture (SOA) development solutions that leverage mainframe resources.
Heuliez, which designs and manufactures niche automobiles such as the Opel Tigra and patented retractable automobile hard tops for many car manufacturers, will use Ivory in the process of modernizing its mainframe applications with Web services.
Although Heuliez has been using CICS Transaction Gateway to Lotus Notes, the company desired to advance their architecture to leverage a Web services model for mainframe integration. Since Heuliez was already using another GT Software product,
Ivory VisualConnect, to convert cumbersome 3270 screens into graphically intuitive Web front-ends, “it was natural for us to consider the additional use of Ivory to bring our applications up to date,” said Catherine Cambot, Heuliez development manager. JVL, GT Software’s partner in France, suggested the additional use of Ivory to Heuliez, and “the demonstration easily convinced us that Ivory was the correct approach,” said Cambot.
“Success with products like Ivory is contagious,” said Jean-Pierre Vercruysse, managing director of JVL. “Heuliez has been an innovative company in product design and development and Ivory has been an integral part of that success. The progression to a Web services model requires a robust solution like Ivory, which has been installed, and deployment is in process.”
“Ivory Service Architect delivers immediate business value for organizations looking to include the mainframe in their SOA strategy,” said Wilson Rains, vice president of business development at GT Software. “Ivory’s powerful development environment and agile deployment solutions empower the Heuliez team to create business services at the right level of granularity in a matter of days. With Ivory, Heuliez is able to speed up the iterative development process and innovate at the speed of today’s business.”
Companies around the world use Ivory to modernize their legacy mainframe applications while moving to new environments such as SOA. The company’s flagship product,
Ivory Service Architect comprises Ivory Studio, a graphical modeling environment; Ivory Server, a high-performance SOAP processor with runtime service orchestration; and Ivory Data Access.
About GT Software
Founded in 1982, Atlanta-based GT Software is a leading global provider of rapid SOA development solutions that leverage mainframe resources, making the mainframe an active participant in SOA initiatives. With GT Software's products, mainframe developers can quickly and easily model, automate, and extend mainframe processes for deployment as key components of an enterprise SOA solution. With more than 2,000 installations worldwide, GT Software provides high-quality, innovative and cost-effective solutions for many Fortune 1000 companies.
