THE CHALLENGE: ACCESSING LEGACY INFORMATION NOT IN THE WAREHOUSE
Web Services and the Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) are fast becoming the method of choice for interfacing systems externally. Organizations can face significant hurdles, though, in implementing these solutions for legacy systems, as legacy technologies weren’t designed for integration. The data repository can’t hold all the data, and your web services often need more operational information than can be supplied.
Providing access to these legacy systems and their data has proven to be one of the major challenges of implementing web services. In fact, the resulting costs and delays can kill a project even before it starts.
What is needed is an easy way to integrate your web services with your legacy systems.
THE SOLUTION
Arbutus specializes in accessing non-relational legacy mainframe and AS/400 (IBM iSeries) data. Arbutus Integrate is middleware specifically tailored to move that data directly to Windows-based applications, such as web services. The solution is simple, powerful, timely and cost-effective.
Arbutus reads virtually any mainframe data directly and presents it as a virtual relational database, almost indistinguishable from a data mart. This virtual database is instantly accessible, without any of the complexities you would typically encounter.
This means that you can quickly and easily give your web service access to whatever data it requires.
In addition to accessing the data, Arbutus offers semantic and transformation layers that allow the implementation of virtually any data interface or business rule. You are not limited to merely exposing the data, but can actually fit it to your needs.
See how Arbutus’ direct legacy file access assists in other application areas.
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