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The pace of new workload deployment is picking up as SOA and composite applications dominate many IT shops: Lines-of-business need new applications. Information management teams uncover new ways to use data. Valuable business logic in legacy applications is now available. This leaves many choices and decisions to be made about where to deploy them. And how are you going to manage these new workloads – no matter where they reside – and do it in a way that’s consistent with management of your legacy applications? In this issue of Mainstream, we explore the “new workload” phenomenon, what to be aware of and how technology solutions from IBM can help streamline your strategy.
Denise A. Hamilton
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Reusing CICS applications on the road to SOA |
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 CICS applications are among your most trusted applications and reflect customer investment in their business critical processes. They offer the most value when their business logic is reused in new applications. By exposing that logic, you’re able to create more flexible and configurable components for new uses and extend these applications beyond their original designs with minimal disruption. This also lets you take advantage of improved management and support of mixed application types and new workloads. Learn how new technology is facilitating reuse with efficient integration with enterprise business process solutions. |
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Automating workloads in the new world of composite services |
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New workloads today are driving many of the challenges facing IT, including the need to transform static job scheduling to dynamic workload automation. Learn the concepts behind applying best-of-breed principles to address increasing demand for more dynamic business services, and the emergence of composite application and composite service environments. |
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Need Information in real time? Warehouse your data on System z |
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Whoa? Did you say warehouse data on the mainframe? Until recently, it made sense to move key data off the platform to avoid creating performance drag and take advantage of better warehousing features. However, with advances in DB2 9, you can now warehouse some of your most important data on the mainframe to gain unparalleled security, performance and availability – and real-time access. To learn more about the strategy, read the article. |
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Inviting you to join a new online community – Destination z |
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You’ve undoubtedly considered modernizing your mainframe applications or wondered when it makes sense to move workloads to the platform. Does any software vendor make the business application I need? Finding answers to these questions and many other mainframe-related issues hasn’t necessarily been easy. So IBM is working with some of its top business partners to bring you Destination z, a single online stop that provides answers, resources and much more. |
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WebSphere Portal on System z: Access applications and data where they reside |
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Portal technology was once known only for presenting self-service applications to make employees’ lives easier. Today, WebSphere Portal on System z is business-critical, providing a composite application framework and the advanced tooling needed to build flexible, SOA-based solutions. As businesses move more of their new workloads to System z, WebSphere Portal on System z is playing an increasing role in helping to consolidate workloads – and reduce costs. |
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Visit our System z case study Web site and customer testimonial Web site for the latest case studies on the business value of System z, across industries. Take advantage of the knowledge gained by those who have gone before you.
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CCR2™ provides fresh and high-value content from leading Systems z IT professionals and experts that will help in the day-to-day management of their mainframe applications and environments. Don't miss the current issue of the CCR2 newsletter. |
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CICS Portfolio e-Newsletter
If you are a CICS architect, developer, administrator, business manager or decision maker, the CICS Portfolio e-Newsletter will help you leverage your existing CICS assets. You’ll also learn about the latest technical developments for CICS and System z tooling, education, events and user groups. |
Events
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IBM Information On Demand Global Conference
Save the date and plan to join us in Las Vegas, Nevada at this premier information management event for business and IT professionals. Scheduled for October 14 - 19, 2007 at the Mandalay Bay Resort, the program will offer more than 100 business leadership sessions, as well as 500 technical sessions. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from world-class experts in one venue.
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IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Conference
Join us for the 2007 WebSphere Portal Technical Conference - the largest annual event dedicated to WebSphere Portal business solutions and technical strategies.
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Webcasts and teleconferences
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Take advantage of IBM webcasts and teleconferences to keep up with the latest thinking in business and IT best practices, covering topics that span the mainframe-based enterprise. Learn how IBM System z can help you work smarter, faster and more cost-effectively.
You can also choose from among various webcast and teleconference replays, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our webcasts are ongoing - check back often for updates to the schedule.
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Visit any time to find out how to attend these sessions or view the replay from the archives.
Resources
Watch IBM TV Impact Channel, a new channel dedicated to SOA and enabling business flexibility.
WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS - DEMO
IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS is the only complete portal platform optimized for running on the IBM System z™. It is for customers looking to deploy an enterprise portal platform with the availability, security, reliability, and scalability that System z™ provides.
You can also view other IBM demos by clicking here. IBM Rational solutions for banking
The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform is a complete solution for developing software and software-based systems. It helps businesses operate more efficiently so they can deliver innovative products and services that set them apart from their competitors. Learn how our banking solution helps you establish, implement, enforce and monitor governance policies and procedures. The result is coherence across the applications and processes that affect functional and operational risk.
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