NEON Systems Delivers Shadow RTE - Industry's First Mainframe Enterprise Service Bus ``On-Ramp'' - Reinforcing Its Technology Le
August 08 2005 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Single Architecture For Web Services, Events and SQL Dramatically
Reduces Complexity and Expense of Integrating Mainframe into SOAs
and Event-Driven Architectures NEON(R) Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON),
The Mainframe Integration Experts(TM), today unveiled the
industry's first Mainframe Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) "On-Ramp"
for mainframe integration, Shadow RTE(TM), a robust technical
architecture and consolidated development environment to enable
customers to integrate mission critical mainframe resources into a
Real-Time Enterprise. Shadow RTE is based on a deeply integrated
software architecture, created from the best of NEON's proven
Shadow codebase and the technology assets acquired from Clientsoft
and InnerAccess Technologies during 2004. Behind the scenes of most
large scale, global enterprises today are hundreds -- if not
thousands -- of integration point-to-point connections, each with
its own attendant hardware, software and personnel adding layers of
inefficiencies and costs. Shadow RTE is a distinct departure from
point integration solutions, offering instead a Mainframe
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) "On-Ramp" supporting Web services,
real-time events and SQL access for seamless interoperability
between mainframe and distributed systems. For organizations with
significant investments in mainframe systems, Shadow RTE
functionality translates into faster development and deployment of
new, high value applications, streamlined business processes and
real-time access to enterprise data and logic regardless of where
it resides within the enterprise. "Integration is a huge problem
for today's businesses, whilst offering the greatest opportunity
for dramatic increases in productivity," said Mark Cresswell,
President and CEO of NEON Systems. "Shadow RTE is profoundly
different from traditionally mainframe point integration products
that exponentially add to the complexity of the underlying IT
infrastructure. The future of mainframe integration is more about
reducing complexity through standards-based SOA and leveraging the
power of real-time, bi-directional business events. Shadow RTE
delivers in a single, elegant architecture what large organizations
need to fully realize the concept of business agility," added
Cresswell. Shadow RTE deploys natively on the IBM z/Series
mainframe and serves as a foundation for NEON's industry leading
mainframe integration products: Shadow z/Services supporting Web
services for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA); Shadow z/Events
leveraging real-time events for Event-Driven Architectures (EDA);
Shadow z/Direct supporting SQL for direct data access and
transactional support; Shadow z/Components supporting Java Beans,
C# and VB.NET components for tightly coupled integration, as well
as Shadow z/Presentation supporting automatic presentation layer
generation for extending screen-based applications to the Web.
Industry Recognition NEON Systems' Shadow RTE was recently
evaluated by the leading IT industry research firms Gartner and
Forrester. NEON Systems and its Shadow RTE mainframe integration
technology is positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner's
Programmatic Integration Servers Magic Quadrant, published February
25, 2005. In a recently published Forrester Research report titled
"NEON Systems Scores Big By Acquiring ClientSoft," January 28,
2005, analyst Phil Murphy provided an assessment of NEON's Shadow
RTE and its impact on the mainframe integration market: "NEON
stands poised to be the de facto choice for companies looking to
extend the life of their legacy applications. ShadowRTE lets
clients use their choice of IDE to extend legacy transactions as
services -- delivering business value today, while leaving a
migrate-while-you-operate option open for tomorrow. NEON's approach
holds the promise of significant breakthroughs in speed and ease of
use that neither Web-service-to-host competitors nor pure
enterprise application integration (EAI) vendors can match." (Note:
To download a complimentary copy of the Gartner 2005 Programmatic
Integration Server Magic Quadrant and Forrester Quick Take: "NEON
Systems Scores Big By Acquiring ClientSoft," visit
http://www.neonsys.com/) Partner Recognition In a joint
announcement issued today, webMethods Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), a
leading business integration and optimization software company, and
NEON Systems announced a new reseller agreement and strategic
partnership that allows webMethods to extend the webMethods Fabric
product suite with NEON's Shadow RTE mainframe integration
technology. "NEON Systems is widely recognized as a leader in
mainframe integration and with the introduction of Shadow RTE, has
delivered a comprehensive solution for both legacy information and
functionality to be more easily and fully integrated as Web
services within everyday workflows and business processes," said
Kristin Weller Muhlner, Executive Vice President, Product
Development, webMethods Inc. "Through the use of webMethods Fabric
to leverage these resources, in conjunction with Shadow RTE,
enterprises can now more readily and easily incorporate their most
critical business resources as Web services within service-oriented
architectures," added Muhlner. Key New Features: In addition to the
unified approach to SOA and EDA, the new Shadow RTE mainframe
integration platform includes a number of key new features to
increase developer productivity, optimize performance and enhance
manageability. -- Shadow Instrumentation Server (SIS) - maintains a
fully integrated, comprehensive real-time, end-to-end systems
management environment for all mainframe integration scenarios.
Activity is traced and integrated from all mainframe nodes within a
Sysplex and exposed graphically via the Shadow Studio. Such
information is ideally suited for development productivity,
operational support and corporate compliance -- Security
Optimization & Management (SOM) - virtually eliminates the
overhead of authenticating loosely-coupled connections making Web
services on the mainframe viable from a CPU consumption perspective
-- Shadow Enterprise Messaging (SEM) - advanced support for
WebSphere/MQ. SEM enables WebSphere/MQ to be more easily used in
support of such contemporary requirements as Web Services and
asynchronous transactions. With SEM as a part of Shadow RTE, it is
now possible to enable any mainframe application to exposed as a
Web Service and invoked in an asynchronous, transactional, reliable
and recoverable manner from WebSphere/MQ connected systems --
Complex Event Processing (CEP) - ability to logically evaluate
multiple events to enable decoupled, parallel, asynchronous
application processing in support of real-time business decision
making Consolidated Development Studio/IDE Complementing Shadow RTE
is NEON's Shadow Studio, a graphical interface tool and
comprehensive IDE built on the Eclipse framework. Shadow Studio
provides seamless integration within the IDE to expose mainframe
applications and data as Web services, real-time business events or
as direct SQL calls. This allows one development environment to
handle any integration requirement without requiring detailed
knowledge of the mainframe or distributed technologies. For
enterprises with an investment in Microsoft Visual Studio talent,
Shadow Developer is a robust legacy integration development
environment for Shadow z/Services that is seamlessly integrated
into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. It allows for the automatic
generation of Web services, components (COBOL, C#, VB.NET and
JavaBean) and starter programs to expose both screen-based and
direct mainframe applications from inside the familiar Visual
Studio .NET interface. Pricing and Availability Shadow RTE is
generally available as of August 8, 2005, through NEON's direct
sales organization and worldwide network of distributors and
resellers. Existing Shadow customers on maintenance have the option
to upgrade to the Shadow RTE platform and take advantage of its
significant performance and systems management enhancements at no
charge. Shadow RTE provides the best technology for mainframe
integration at a competitive price. For additional information on
Shadow RTE or any of the complementary components, visit the NEON
Website at http://www.neonsys.com/shadow/shadow_rte.asp. To speak
with a sales person about Shadow RTE, call (800) 505-6366 in the
United States or +44 (0)1753.752800 in the United Kingdom. To
locate a NEON worldwide distributor, visit
http://www.neonsys.com/partners/distributors.asp. Informational
Webinar An informational web seminar is available to interested
parties who would like to know more about NEON's Shadow RTE product
offering entitled, "Avoid Integration Gridlock: Take The New
Enterprise Service Bus 'On-Ramp' For The Mainframe -- Shadow RTE,"
scheduled for August 23, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. CDT. Register via the
web at http://neonsys.com/response/form.aspx?id=949 About NEON
Systems NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON) -- the Mainframe
Integration Experts -- is a leading provider of enterprise-class
mainframe integration solutions, delivering the only unified
mainframe integration platform to support the entire range of
requirements for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and
Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) -- key requirements to underpin
the Real-time Enterprise. NEON's Shadow technology is designed to
reduce the complexity of mainframe integration allowing large
organizations with significant commitment to mainframe systems to
streamline incumbent technologies and lower total cost of
ownership. NEON's Shadow z/Services and Shadow z/Events offerings
attack the emerging mainframe Web services and real-time mainframe
event-driven markets and are unique in their depth and breadth of
support for the requirements of such markets. With extensive
mainframe integration expertise, NEON is uniquely qualified to
solve the complexities of supporting new business initiatives that
must integrate with critical mainframe systems. For more
information on the Powering the Real-time Enterprise, see our Web
site at http://www.neonsys.com or call 800-505-NEON. The NEON logo,
Shadow, Shadow Web Server and Shadow Direct are registered
trademarks, and Shadow z/Services, Shadow z/Events, and Shadow
Studio are trademarks of NEON Systems, Inc. in the USA and in other
select countries. All other trademarks, service marks and product
or service names are the property of their respective owners.
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