Special Offering for IBM i

Just what is true Web integration on the System I, and how can SOA help companies achieve it to reap the benefits? Illuminata’s senior analyst Wayne Kernochen, responds to those questions and argues that, “If people want to get the biggest bang for the buck with SOA, they will ‘webservicize’ existing System i applications.”

Carol Woodbury, a founder and president of SkyView Partners, shares her thoughts about the investment that System I shops must make in security and compliance, and offers some recommendations for strategies to ensure success.

Users of the IBM System i don’t have to choose between extending their existing applications to the web with few changes or building a new application from the bottom up. Magic’s web integration approach lets you reuse existing application logic, leveraging your existing applications while achieving true web integration.

What are the business requirements that drive the needs for application integration, and how can integration best be achieved on the IBM System i? This webinar takes a look at the strengths and native capabilities of the System I for achieving applications integration, and discusses ways in which System I users can connect JD Edwards World or JD Edwards Enterprise one to Siebel CRM On Demand or Salesforce.com for salesforce integration and CRM functionality. Topics include integration monitoring, logs and dashboards, step-by-step process flow design and debugging, and visual process flow diagrams for data mapping, messaging, routing, and human workflow.

Explore methods for simplified web integration using tools with powerful database and internet capabilities for IBM System i. Learn how-to create web front ends, modify business logic, share functionality using Web Services and much more. IT departments are tired of complex Java and PHP solutions that attempt to do things the hard way with line by line coding. See how you can create integrated web applications and smooth running business processes using a new paradigm.

Your business will flow more efficiently when you interface your JD Edwards World software on your IBM System i with your other third-party applications, email and websites. This webinar examines the iBOLT Flow Editor and demonstrates how to design the most effective integration flows.

The XML standard has many advantages for transportability and ability to address unstructured data. Because it incorporates a metadata approach, XML makes it easy to discover data structures, bring many advantages for interoperability. This webinar shows you how to use the latest XML feature in eDeveloper V10 to build modern, robust applications.

It takes more than a wizard to create good web services... and it takes more than web services to implement a web integration project on System i. Learn how you can modernize your business applications utilizing rich clients, web services, and business process integration tools that take the coding out of programming and put the emphasis where it belongs: on your business rules.

Salesforce.com is one of the most popular and effective SaaS applications in use today. This Webcast shows customers using J.D. Edwards World how to achieve the maximum benefit of salesforce automation by integrating it with other applications across the enterprise.

System I users have a lot invested in their OS/400 applications, but they know they need to modernize these applications and to meet new business demands and to integrate with other applications across the enterprise. This white paper presents a pragmatic approach for accomplishing this, without the need to implement complex technologies or programming languages, keeping the System I at the platform of choice for legacy and new business applications.

Users of the System I need to bring their applications into the world around it—a world buzzing with Web-enablement, with the transfer of data between departments and customers and suppliers, with moves towards service-oriented architectures (SOA) that deliver business efficiency and agility, and with on-the-spot, real-time decision-making that business expects today. This can only happen with true Web integration—but what does that really mean, and how can it be achieved without adopting complex strategies that are expensive, risky, and resource-intensive? This white paper presents a solution.

Keeping up with regulatory compliance and mandates that come from outside the organization threaten to consume significant resources from your organization, drawing your attention away from the projects and initiatives that you have defined as those that will increase your individual business advantage. However, deployment of a security plan, along with third-party tools and an effective development platform can dramatically decrease the time it takes to implement and maintain these compliance mandates, resulting in more resources available to devote to your core business.

For many companies, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is proving to be an extremely attractive and efficient alternative to buying or building on-site, enterprise applications—especially where those applications are not industry-specific. One of the great barriers, however, to maximizing the value of SaaS applications is the challenge of integrating them with in-house applications, especially when real-time integration is necessary. This white paper presents a strategy for meeting that challenge with SOA-based integration solutions.