Robert Morris is senior vice president of marketing and strategy responsible for the planning, integration, and marketing of GT Software product solutions to the global market. Prior to GT Software, he held a variety of sales, marketing, and product management positions at KnowledgeWare, Forté Software, ClientSoft (now NEON systems), and Jacada. He has an extensive background in application development and integration including experience with CASE methodologies and distributed systems as well as midrange and mainframe environments.
As Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives attain critical mass in
the enterprise, there's more and more interest in boosting business results
and competitiveness (not to mention leveraging significant long-term
investments) by incorporating mainframe assets into the SOA. However, if this
attention is myopically focused on data and functionality, companies may be
overlooking the mainframe's highest potential for rapid time-to-market and
ROI: the value of the expertise resident with mainframe developers.
While they may seem an unlikely resource to deliver SOA net-centric
applications, equipping mainframe developers is actually a highly practical
and cost-effective alternative to the near-impossible task of trying to
infuse Web Services developers with decades of mainframe experience.
This article will look at the benefits of fully utilizing the portfolio of
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To ensure the success of your mainframe SOA initiatives, it's important to be
able to support both bottom-up and contract-first design approaches. With the
former, businesses may see an opportunity to jumpstart the SOA, quickly
packaging bite-sized chunks of mainframe code as Web Services, and pushing
them out to the rest of the organization to do with them what they will. But
experience shows that the contract-first approach - basically, Web Service
design informed by business processes - is a "best practice" that will yield
optimal results.
The Myth and Pitfalls of "Instant SO... (more)
Robert Morris is senior vice president of marketing and strategy responsible for the planning, integration, and marketing of GT Software product solutions to the global market. Prior to GT Software, he held a variety of sales, marketing, and product management positions at KnowledgeWare, Forté Software, ClientSoft (now NEON systems), and Jacada. He has an extensive background in application development and integration including experience with CASE methodologies and distributed systems as well as midrange and mainframe environments.
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