webMethods Extends Service-Oriented Architecture to the Mainframe with NEON Systems Partnership
August 08 2005 - 9:15AM
PR Newswire (US)
Provides Enterprises with an Integrated Offering for Optimizing
Business Processes Spanning Both Mainframe and Distributed
Computing Environments FAIRFAX, Va., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ --
webMethods Inc. (NASDAQ:WEBM), a leading business integration and
optimization software company, today announced a new reseller
agreement and strategic partnership with NEON(R) Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:NEON), The Mainframe Integration Experts(TM), that allows
webMethods to extend the webMethods Fabric(TM) product suite with
NEON's award-winning Shadow RTE(R) mainframe integration
technology. By bringing together best-in-class technology for
integrating both mainframe and distributed computing environments
within a single offering, enterprises can now more readily and
easily incorporate their most critical computing resources within
the service-oriented architecture (SOA) enabled by webMethods
Fabric. "The mainframe continues to have a vital role in the IT
strategies of many of our customers, and making mainframes and
distributed platforms true peers in a SOA offers tremendous
benefits," said Kristin Weller Muhlner, executive vice president,
Product Development, webMethods Inc. "NEON Systems is the widely
recognized leader in standards-based mainframe integration and
access. Our partnership with NEON allows us to not only offer
transactional support for mainframe environments, but also uniquely
enables us to provide rich data and event-level integration as
well. Through this approach, both legacy information and
functionality can be more easily and fully integrated as Web
services within critical workflows and business processes.
Enterprises ultimately benefit from the use of a single, SOA-based
infrastructure for orchestrating all of their enterprise resources,
and the ability to extend our patent-pending business activity
monitoring capabilities to mainframe-based applications." Shadow
RTE offers enterprises the ability to access, deploy and leverage
critical mainframe resources as Web services via a SOA framework
and as real- time events within an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
At the same time, it also enables the use of SQL for direct
enterprise access to legacy data with additional transactional
support offered for screen-based applications and legacy data. By
adding these comprehensive capabilities to webMethods Fabric,
enterprises can more easily and effectively integrate critical
applications and data from mainframe systems within their business
process improvement initiatives. Through the use of webMethods
Fabric to leverage these resources in conjunction with Shadow RTE,
users can also secure significantly enhanced operational control.
For example, specific processes spanning both distributed and
mainframe environments can now be more easily and intuitively
modeled and deployed. webMethods Fabric also provides the ability
to extend real-time visibility into these end-to-end business
processes, enable organizations to improve business responsiveness
with its predictive process monitoring capabilities. Users can also
take advantage of Servicenet, the Web services infrastructure
component of webMethods Fabric, to manage and monitor the
performance of mainframe-based Web services in accordance with
required service level agreements (SLAs). For current webMethods
users, additional benefits of the integrated offering include: *
Extended SOA deployment -- Provides on-board, bi-directional
integration between webMethods Fabric and mainframe applications
via Web services, making the mainframe and distributed systems
peers within a standards-based SOA infrastructure. * Real-time
integration -- Enables business events which originate within
mainframe applications and data subsystems to be non-invasively
published to the webMethods platform, allowing the mainframe to
trigger business processes in real time and participate in complex
event processing, such as the patent-pending Business Activity
Monitoring capabilities of webMethods Fabric. * Standards-based
access to mainframe data -- Provides access from the webMethods
platform to mainframe databases via JDBC and SQL, making mainframe
data transparently available to applications that require it. These
capabilities complement webMethods' existing mainframe integration
functionality, which provides a very high performance, non-invasive
solution for enabling on-line CICS and IMS processes to be called
as Web services. Together, webMethods and NEON offer a true
cross-functional, standards- based platform that seamlessly
combines SOA and EDA within a single solution. This is a dramatic
improvement over traditional alternatives, which string together
point-to-point and proprietary technologies as tightly coupled,
costly gateways that offer limited functionality or adaptability.
Additional benefits of the integrated approach include a
template-based configuration model that eliminates significant
custom coding typically used to define event sources and message
queues. As part of the agreement, each company has cross-certified
their respective product portfolios to ensure seamless
interoperability. In addition, webMethods customers will benefit
from the integrated first-level support provided by webMethods for
the NEON products. "The partnership is a combination of leaders
joining forces to address mission critical business process
optimization requirements for the world's largest organizations.
The functional depth of the joint solution will be unchallenged by
any other vendor, and the expertise supporting it will ensure the
maximum reward for the lowest risk," said Mark Cresswell, president
and CEO, NEON Systems. Pricing and Availability Shadow RTE is
available immediately with pricing available directly from
webMethods. About webMethods Inc. webMethods (NASDAQ:WEBM) provides
business integration software to integrate, assemble and optimize
available IT assets to drive business process productivity.
webMethods delivers an innovative, enterprise-class business
integration platform that incorporates proven integration
technology with next generation capabilities into one interoperable
set of tools that delivers a unique combination of efficiency,
agility and control. webMethods combines industry leadership with a
zealous commitment to customers to deliver tangible business value
to more than 1,300 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in
Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia
Pacific and Japan. More information about the company can be found
at http://www.webmethods.com/. 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 website at
http://www.neonsys.com/ or call 800-505-NEON. The webMethods name
and logo are registered trademarks, and webMethods Fabric is a
trademark, of webMethods, Inc. in the United States and certain
other countries. All other marks mentioned are trademarks or
service marks of their respective companies. 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.
DATASOURCE: webMethods, Inc. CONTACT: John Conley of webMethods
Inc., +1-703-460-5996, Web site: http://www.webmethods.com/
http://www.neonsys.com/
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