Solutions for XML - DataDirect Shadow

For large organizations that rely on mainframe systems, tremendous value lies in reusing existing investments in mainframe applications and databases using XML-based web services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

But mainframe integration presents unique challenges - challenges to which DataDirect is more than equal. Our Shadow family of products for integrating mainframe data, applications, and screens into enterprise-wide and web-driven environments supports XML for providing mainframe-sourced web services and event capture in real-time, zero-latency solutions.

Shadow provides full support for XML. A robust, multi-threaded, native mainframe runtime, it provides a real-time foundation architecture for standards-based mainframe integration in support of:

• Web services for service-oriented architecture (SOA) with offerings from our Shadow z/Services family of products. z/Services supports a wide range of mainframe data sources, including screen and business logic interfaces, as well as client-side support for HTML, WSDL, XML and SOAP.
• SQL for direct data access and transactional support with Shadow z/Direct.
• Real-time events for Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) with products such as Shadow z/Events. Captured mainframe events are transformed into XML to facilitate utilization with a broad range of distributed application environments and databases.

Shadow unlocks your mainframe systems with the power of advanced SOA and real-time eventing, making your core legacy applications and data available to .NET and Java developers for new XML-based projects, often without their being aware that they are even accessing a mainframe platform.

Here's some of the many ways your organization can benefit from using Shadow for XML-based development:

• Protect your legacy investment - Your developers quickly and cost-effectively employ the XML standard using their existing skills as well as your existing mainframe data and applications.
• Increase your organization's responsiveness - Incorporating EDA and SOA gives your organization the agility to adapt rapidly - in many cases automatically - to changes in system and/or business conditions and requirements. You gain reliability in your applications and competitive advantage in your core business processes, all while reducing staff-related costs.
• Improve your business processes - Reduce latency by introducing real-time functionality to your business processes, eliminating batch processing. Advanced SOA can also streamline your business operations by making your data vastly more useful through automated filtering and the introduction of intelligent data enhancement functionality, which can automatically retrieve and incorporate additional relevant data.

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