SOLA Mainframe SOA

In SOLA – Mainframe SOA, Jim Crew discusses how leading financial firms are deploying safe and effective strategies for making mainframe assets available and reusable by a variety of SOA and web-based applications. Notably, Jim brings an end-user perspective, thanks to his role as a former executive at Merrill Lynch.  Details of SOLA tooling and architecture are featured.

• Jim Crew: Vice President, SOLA 

Mainframe Modernization wtih IBM's Scott Searle

As 2010 gets underway, a large number of Chief Information Officers say they see ways to leverage and share valuable mainframe assets will be a top priority. 

Our Mainframe Modernization ‘Expert Voice’ for this edition, IBM’s Scott Searle, shares results of a revealing CIO study IBM conducted in 2009, details how the CIO findings are driving a powerful approach to mainframe modernization at Rational, which blends the best of COBOL, Java, .NET, SOA and Governance. 

IBM: Scott Searle, Program Director,
Rational Enterprise Modernization Products

Solving Business Driven Modernization Recipe for Rapid Legacy Modernization

Learn a 4-step recipe that helps CIOs and CEOs deliver business-driven mainframe modernization that strikes a right balance between cost, deliverables and ROI. 

• Ronald Nunan - Senior Product Manager

Improving Operational Responsiveness With Mainframe SOA Enablement

 Jeff shares how customers are apply SOA techniques to overcome shortcomings of many traditional mainframe integration techniques.  The results: Leveraging DB2, IMS and other mainframe data for near real-time projects that deliver dramatically more business value.   

• Jeff Overton - Progress DataDirect Shadow Product Management

Mainframe Modernization & SOA - Tactical Services...Strategic Goals

This session reviews several mainframe modernization scenarios, from transaction, integration,  Web 2.0 portals and even mainframe in the cloud. Automated technologies, Best Practices and simple deployment profiles are featured. 

• Dan Speer - Director of Business Development

Enterprise Modernization on System z

A results-driven look at how IBM Rational tools and collaboration products are providing CIOs a  modern “bridge” to a new generation of mainframe development, empowering mainframe, mid-tier, Java, .NET and other developers to create and update legacy assets via service creation, deliver and management.

• Raj Suryavanshi – Product Manager, WebSphere for z/OS
• Christian Reilly – Strategy and Marketing, Enterprise Modernization for System z

Accelerating Products and Services Innovation on System z

A results-driven look at how IBM Rational tools and collaboration products are providing CIOs a  modern “bridge” to a new generation of mainframe development, empowering mainframe, mid-tier, Java, .NET and other developers to create and update legacy assets via service creation, deliver and management.

• Scott Searle - Program Director, Enterprise Modernization Products

Proven and Practical Mainframe SOA Modernization

This session describes which types of mainframe modernization projects that can put best put SOA to good use, and yield the quickest and most powerful ROI.  Session also explores automated features of Seagulls LegaSuite technology. 

• Greg Mummah - Product Manager

5 Factors for Effective Mainframe Integration

This session breaks down the mainframe integration problems into its basic parts, to help CIOs build up a simplified, successful strategy. Featured are 5 steps to mainframe modernization success, with a priority on and reducing costs while delivering better results.

• Rob Morris - Chief Strategy Officer

Case Study Keynote

This powerful Case Study Roundtable features the ‘Top 7’ Mainframe SOA providers of technology, tools and services. Learn how their F1000 and government customers benefit from:  

• Improved Efficiencies – Strong ROI from IT investments, and focus on business needs. 
• Responsive Business – Faster turn-around from IT and business for meeting new business opportunities. 
• Giving More Power, Attention to Customers, Partners, Shareholders  – Leverage valuable mainframe assets for powerful new applications for B2B, B2C, and real-time internal integration for BPM, dashboards and real-time IT.