Seagull Software

Getting from Here to There: A Roadmap to CICS Web Services for SOA

Steve Wood, product manager for CICS Transaction Server - IBM's industry leading transaction processing platform, shares tools and and methodologies that will get you started on your first project and serve as a foundation for the ongoing evolution to SOA.

KnowledgeCast Overview

Exposing CICS processes as reusable business services may seem like a daunting task. Yet your CICS applications are a perfect place to begin the migration to SOA.

Proven tools and methods give you a roadmap for your first project, and a foundation for ongoing evolution to SOA.

During this 45-minute Webinar:

• Steve Wood from IBM’s Hursley lab will discuss how CICS Transaction Server V3.1 fits into a SOA, and de-mystify the composition of CICS applications into reusable business services.
• Seagull Software will provide practical advice for accelerating the migration of existing applications – on any version of CICS – to SOA.

CICS applications typically run your most fundamental business processes. SOA lets you share them to accelerate IT response to business change.

The Webinar includes:

• Emphasis on using your current IT staff to create services
• Real-world examples of mainframe migration to SOA
• What’s new in CICS 3.1 that can help you
• Q&A session with technical experts from IBM and Seagull Software

Wed., 15 November 2006 10:00 AM EST (15:00 PM GMT)

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About the Presenter

Steve Wood is product manager for CICS Transaction Server - IBM's industry leading transaction processing platform. He is currently responsible for definition, communication and execution of the strategy for CICS Transaction Server. He often acts as a product consultant to influential customers and key business partners. He manages proposal, prioritization and commitment of product development plans.

Steve is a Chartered Engineer with over 15 years experience as a software engineer specializing in communications protocols; he was instrumental in introducing TCP/IP implementation into CICS and co-invented CICS Web Support.

Recently Steve has focused on improving the application development approach for CICS and drove the formulation and delivery of the new CICS Service Flow Feature in support of composed SOA application solutions. In addition Steve has experience with Business Integration technologies having held positions as an IT Architect and as B2B Product Manager.

Wed., 15 November 2006 10:00 AM EAT (15:00 PM GMT)