Case Studies

Sometimes, the best way to understand the value of integration software is to see how it is used. These case studies on HostBridge customers that show how easy CICS integration can be.

 
Group Health Cooperative
Group Health Cooperative (GHC) is a nonprofit health care system that provides both medical coverage and care for more than 500,000 residents in Washington State and North Idaho. HostBridge allows GHC to replace their screen scraping solutions and integrate their Advantage CA-Ideal applications using field names; providing faster, more reliable integration.
 
Navy Federal Credit Union
Navy Federal Credit Union is the largest credit union in the world. Navy Federal selected HostBridge to replace their existing screen-scraping solutions, resulting in better performance, lower maintenance costs, and streamlined development processes.
 
New York City Department of Education
New York City Department of Education allows employees to request changes to their benefits packages via the Internet. HostBridge and Tier Technologies worked together to reduce time and labor required to process requests.
 
Main Street America Group
Main Street America Group allows insurance agents to make policy change requests into their CICS applications via a web browser. HostBridge replaced a middle-tier screen scraping solution. The change cut response time to users by two-thirds and made maintenance a breeze.
 
Hawaiian Electric XML-enables Customer Service App
HostBridge simplified integration of CICS data with Vignette eBusiness application, improved performance and reliability versus middle-tier solutions, and made integration faster and cheaper.
 
Konica Business Technologies XML-enables CICS
Konica Business Technologies uses HostBridge™ to link its Service Information Management System (SIMS), a CICS-based service and dispatch application, with its comprehensive eBusiness environment known as KoniNet. The result is lower costs and increased productivity.
 
Yamaha Motors Connects CICS with Client Applications
Yamaha integrated its CICS applications with existing client applications and, as a result, expects to save more than $100,000 annually in dial-up expenses.
 
Delta Dental Uses HostBridge to Web-enable CICS
Delta Dental of California is embarking on a number of projects to web-enable legacy CICS programs with HostBridge, replacing web-to-host solutions that rely on screen scraping. Delta's current implementation allows intranet-connected Delta Dental customer support representatives and Internet-connected customers to obtain patient data and dental insurance claim information using a simplified web browser interface. "In our opinion, products that rely upon screen scraping techniques are not as robust or as expedient as what's available to us through HostBridge," says Marshall Gordon, chief architect of the Caspian Consulting Group, a vendor organization that provides distributed systems services to Delta.