Extending Your Mainframe for More Business Value

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	Dates Locations April 30, 2008 Washington, DC Cancelled Ottawa, ON May 08, 2008 Atlanta, GA May 13, 2008 Dallas, TX May 15, 2008 Los Angeles, CA June 03, 2008 Chicago, IL June 05, 2008 Cleveland, OH June 10, 2008 Boston, MA

Attend one of our free technical education seminars for a fresh look at the mainframe – from new tools that help you make better use of your assets, to the latest technology for boosting mainframe energy efficiency

When you’re running a mainframe, the demands put upon it never cease. You counted on it to help you run IT and manage business growth, and now may be looking at it to integrate mainframe and distributed assets using a Service Oriented Architecture. You won’t be the first. With the resurgence of the modern mainframe, businesses are increasingly running new workloads on the platform, as well as extending existing workloads, to realize the cost savings and benefits of a robust, highly available and secure platform.

This full-day seminar on the value of the mainframe will show you how to extend existing applications easily and quickly, using modern tools that require no mainframe experience. This new ease-of-use means that you can transform a transactional application to a new access “channel” – whether it’s a PDA, mobile phone or “legacy” browser – with relatively few skills. We’ll also show you how a mainframe portal and message broker can integrate and extend your existing applications with the highest levels of service. More than ever, the mainframe is the ideal place to trust your data – whether it’s operational, relational, XML, or stored in a data warehouse.

In this full-day seminar, Extending Your Mainframe for More Business Value, we’ll offer both introductory and advanced sessions on how to:

• Achieve immediate productivity of new hires to the mainframe, for both operations and application development
• Implement a data warehouse on System z™, and use the analytical and reporting tools to make real-time decisions
• Optimize platform selection for new applications by understanding the deployment capabilities and characteristics of z/OS®
• Show compliance of IT systems with the latest industry or federal regulations

This seminar will help you better understand System z products and services available to you, as well as best practices to follow so you can learn from the experience of your peers.