Solutions for ISVs - Mainframe Integration

Integrating mainframe artifacts - data, applications, and screens - into new business applications can be challenging. But it's one increasingly required - no doubt by your own customers.

Many of your customers have a need to use their core legacy systems in new ways. With DataDirect Shadow, you can transparently integrate your customers' mainframe assets with .NET and J2EE applications.

Shadow is the recognized leader in mainframe integration technology. It enables non-invasive, simple, reliable, scalable, and secure integration between .NET and J2EE applications and z/OS mainframe environments. DataDirect Technologies offers these Shadow products for embedding or distributing with your software product:

• Shadow z/Services - Web Services/SOA
• Shadow z/Direct - Direct SQL Access
• Shadow z/Events - Real-Time Events
• Shadow z/Presentation - Web Enablement
• Shadow Studio - Eclipse-based administration tool for all Shadow products

Shadow z/Services - Web Services and SOA

Shadow z/Services provides a secure, reliable and scalable foundation for turning your customers' mainframe assets (screens, programs, and data) into web services for use by your Java or .NET commercial software products. It offers a non-invasive development approach that protects your customers' legacy logic. In addition, your engineers don't have to retrain, retool, or change the way they build software.

Learn more about the benefits of Shadow z/Services.

Shadow z/Direct - Direct SQL Access to Mainframe Data

Shadow z/Direct provides an extremely scalable means to access your customers' mainframe data via ODBC or JDBC. With Shadow z/Direct, your software product can transform mainframe data into a SQL RDBMS - no matter how the data stores on the mainframe are structured - flat files such as VSAM, hierarchical such as IMS and ADABAS, or relational such as DB2.

Learn more about the benefits of Shadow z/Direct.

Shadow z/Events - Real-Time Events

Shadow z/Events provides a single interface for your software product to capture, in real-time, mainframe business events occurring within Adabas, CICS, DB2, IDMS, and VSAM environments. Now you can provide specific services to your customers based on affecting conditions such as volume of sales, changes in trends, or a specific threshold.

Learn more about the benefits of Shadow z/Events.

Shadow z/Presentation - Web Enablement

DataDirect's line of web enablement products, including Shadow z/Presentation and Shadow z/EnterpriseWeb Server, provide simple access to mainframe screen applications from your ASP web server or .NET/Java software products. Simple web enablement of mainframe data and applications can allow you to provide a tremendous resource to your customers - new web based solutions that increase services and productivity.

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Shadow Studio - Administration Tool

All Shadow products include Shadow Studio, an Eclipse-based administration tool that exposes mainframe applications and data as web services, real-time business events, or direct SQL calls. It provides a single development environment so you can handle any mainframe integration requirement without detailed knowledge of the mainframe or distributed technologies.

Learn more about the benefits of Shadow Studio and all the Shadow mainframe integration products.

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