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An IMS overview: The business value of IMS and SOA

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Developed for: Architects, IT managers and other professionals, line-of-business managers, database administrators, system administrators, and system programmers

Technical level: Basic

It’s been more than 37 years since the Apollo Space Program first delivered a message ready for IMS. Since then, IMS™ has grown into an integral part of our daily lives. While the world of information technology around IMS has significantly changed to address the changing needs of business, some things remain the same: Businesses demand maximum performance and availability, along with interoperability, flexibility, and support for new, emerging technologies. Today many of our customers are embarking on their SOA journey to enable business flexibility and IT simplicity and reliability. This presentation will give you an overview of IMS and how IMS enables you to reuse your existing investment and enhance the SOA journey.

Join us for this complimentary webcast and learn how IMS continues to offer efficient heterogeneous access to information across global networks. Whether you’re interested in enabling IMS transactions and data as Web services, or simply want to make more of your existing IMS resources, this webcast will show you new ways to do that. You’ll learn more about IMS and the value it offers, its strategy, new and integrated IMS solutions, and how businesses are using IMS. You’ll learn more about IMS and the value it offers, its strategy, new and integrated IMS SOA solutions, and how businesses are using IMS to reap the benefits of SOA and TCO.

This complimentary webcast will give you a good understanding of how IMS supports your business and how it has been enhanced to:

  • Exploit the IBM mainframe, leveraging the scalability, stability and technology advances on this platform
  • Automate and optimize the On Demand Service Oriented Architecture environment
  • Eliminate or greatly reduce new programming effort
  • Reduce end-to-end business process transformation
  • Facilitate integration with partners, suppliers and customers

Join us after the webcast for a live question and answer session

Speakers: Barbara Klein, Senior IMS Strategic Plan and Brand Manager and Don Streicher, IMS Planning, Field Support and Education Manager


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