Harmonize with HostBridge
XML, SOA, Web, Cloud, ROI
Through the magic of auto-generated XML, CICS process automation, an Eclipse IDE, and JavaScript-based tools, HostBridge harmonizes mainframe resources with distributed systems. Hence, our ad terms: XML, SOA, Web, Cloud, ROI.... Here is our brief take on these concepts. Read or scroll down to find HostBridge and IBM white papers.
XML
XML remains the foundation of web services and web services-based integration – and of HostBridge products. The HostBridge base product is an XML engine that auto-converts CICS/mainframe data to XML data and metadata. We pioneered XML-based mainframe integration in 1999 to improve performance and integration reliability by eliminating screen scraping. XML automation is the backbone supporting our complete set of integration tools.
SOA
There’s no doubt SOA, service-oriented architecture, offers the most flexible, effective means to harmonize information systems – whether they belong to you, your partners, or your customers. At HostBridge, our approach to services-based integration is simple – provide standards-based tools that let you integrate your mainframe into your SOA as cleanly, efficiently, and cost-effectively as possible. Whatever your SOA governance platform, whatever your services model (formal SOAP/WSDL, informal REST), whatever your security needs (mainframe authentication, SSL, digital certificates) – we work with your requirements. Standards-based HostBridge products ensure that your mainframe is a good citizen of your SOA world.
Web
Web-to-host was the famous – or infamous – ancestor of today’s mainframe integration software. How far we’ve come. No longer are we limited to emulating terminal screens or navigating one transaction at a time. Today the largest organizations in the world use HostBridge to integrate mainframe-based data and business logic with rich, dynamic web interfaces. Taking advantage of our support for XML, HTTP, JavaScript, SOAP, REST, and other standards, they merge feeds from all types of resources – from decades-old mainframe applications to the latest Atom feeds – to create web-based composites and mashups that allow users to view and respond with agility to changing conditions.
Cloud
Bringing the mainframe to the cloud isn’t just an airy vision. Today the mainframe is in the cloud. HostBridge customers are making mainframe data and application resources an integral part of cloud implementations. One customer, a health insurer in Europe, is part of a consortium that has developed a cloud infrastructure for the nation’s healthcare communities including Platform- , Software- ,and Data as a Service components. After initial rollout to consortium members, services will be made available to residents, healthcare service providers, and other insurers nationwide – a potential user population numbering in the millions.
ROI
If you’re looking for return on investment, think Return on Integration. By choosing high-performance, high-fidelity HostBridge integration, our customers consolidate once-disparate systems, put legacy resources to new uses, and extend the value of their mainframes. They control costs with our rapid development and deployment. They strengthen competitive positions via 24/7 information access and user self-service. They increase staff productivity. And they achieve strategic integration goals through practical, tactical services implementations that deliver quantifiable short-term gains on the way to long-term profitability.
We invite you to learn more about HostBridge products and services – and all the acronyms we support. Download a white paper below, explore the web site, attend an interactive HostBridge demo, or call us at 866-965-2427 to set up a private integration assessment.
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Integration White Papers
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Composing CICS Services: A HostBridge White Book. We wrote the book on orchestrating, SOA-enabling, and integrating CICS terminal-oriented applications; this is it. |
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High-Fidelity CICS Integration: HostBridge and IBM, A Brief History. |
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SOAP and REST: Choosing Formal or Informal Web Services for CICS Integration |
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