Partnership Enables Development of New Service-Oriented Applications That
Fully Leverage The Mainframe
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Gartner Symposium -- Skyway
Software, the award winning provider of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
design and delivery solutions, and GT Software, a leading provider of rapid
SOA development tools for mainframes, today announced a formal partnership
encompassing sales, marketing, and product integration. The combination of
Skyway SOA Platform and GT Software's Ivory product offers a new element to
the SOA marketplace -- a solution that can build new services, assemble
existing services, while managing and governing reuse across multiple
platforms from any type of data source, including mainframes.
The Skyway Software's SOA architecture model, Web 2.0 application model
and model-driven environment create an agile and service-centric
development solution. A key product differentiator is that the Skyway SOA
Platform builds new and assembles existing services while other solutions
only assemble composite services. The Platform also manages and governs
reuse across multiple platforms from any type of data source. These
capabilities result in projects being completed at unprecedented speeds and
savings; providing relief for IT departments facing the stresses of
application backlog, serving customers and addressing compliance issues.
GT Software's Ivory solution secures the mainframe's position as an
active participant in an SOA by enabling the deployment of mainframe-based
business services that fuel enterprise initiatives. Now, mainframe
developers can graphically assemble mainframe transactions, applications,
data, and web services into multi-step, multi-operation business services
with no formal training or consulting required.
Rob Morris, senior vice president of marketing and strategy at GT
Software, states, "Organizations are looking to SOA as a means to leverage
their current systems in the creation of new applications. Our partnership
with Skyway Software expands our SOA ecosystem to make it extremely easy
for customers to gain even more value from mainframe-based services in the
creation of new composite services and applications."
"The great thing about this partnership is that both products work
together right out-of-the-box since they are standards-based which goes to
the very heart of SOA. Today so many tools are customized yet companies are
starting to demand their technologies and solutions to have the ability to
automatically work together. We are excited about the partnership between
Skyway Software and GT Software in providing seamless integration between
Skyway and Ivory," adds David Precopio, vice president of product
management and marketing at Skyway Software. Skyway's Team has a successful
history of developing proven industry winners. Skyway's principal investor,
Daniel Aegerter, and CTO, Jared Rodriguez, were the founding partners of
Tradex Technologies, which was acquired by Ariba in 2000 for $5.4 billion.
At the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit in
December, Daryl C. Plummer, Group Vice President and Chief Gartner Fellow,
said, "Partnerships between mainframe SOA vendors and new web services and
web applications vendors will happen because of the basic synergies created
between 'stuff that works' (i.e. legacy) and 'stuff that sizzles' (i.e. Web
Services). Then you can open up a whole repository of mainframe based
services for new development."
About GT Software
Founded in 1982, Atlanta-based GT Software (http://www.gtsoftware.com)
is a leading provider of rapid SOA development solutions that leverage
mainframe resources, making the mainframe an active participant in SOA
initiatives. With GT Software's products, mainframe developers can quickly
and easily model, automate, and extend mainframe processes for deployment
as key components of an enterprise SOA solution. With more than 2,000
installations worldwide, GT Software provides high-quality, innovative and
cost-effective solutions for many Fortune 1000 companies.
About Skyway Software
Skyway Software is the award-winning provider of SOA design and
delivery solutions. The Skyway SOA Platform enables companies seeking a
competitive advantage to design and deliver custom applications and
services at unprecedented speeds and savings. This shortens the
time-to-business impact and decreases development expenses, while allowing
IT to adapt quickly to dynamic business fluctuations. Ultimately, the
Skyway SOA Platform offers maximum infrastructure flexibility by
accelerating and simplifying custom applications and services. The Skyway
SOA Platform is offered via monthly subscriptions branded as the Skyway SOA
Starter Pack or through perpetual licensing.
SOURCE GT Software
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Related links:
http://www.gtsoftware.com/
CONTACT:
Rob Morris of GT Software, +1-404-253-1300,
or rmorris@gtsoftware.com; or Bill Baker of Baker Communications
Group for GT Software, +1-860-350-9100, or wbaker@bakercg.com; or
Marla Whittemore of Skyway Software, +1-813-288-9355 ext. 118, or
marla@skywaysoftware.com
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