White Paper
The Top Five Myths of Screen-Scraping:
What You Need to Know
Many organizations with mainframe, System i or OpenVMS applications still ask their employees to use green-screen
(or text-based) user interfaces to work with essential business information.
Green-screens are a business problem and a technology problem. They’re unappealing, hard to learn, intimidating, and accessible only with terminal emulation software. They’re also incompatible with modern application integration methods like Web services and SOA.
Getting Past the Screen-Scraping Myths
The appeal of screen-scraping is understandable — it’s simple and inexpensive. But many developers may not know that screen-scraping doesn’t have to be a clumsy, quick fix.
With the right combination of features, a screen-scraping tool can be an application modernization solution that solves the problems that green-screens present. Download the white paper, Top Five Myths of Screen-Scraping and find out how:
- You can modernize your legacy applications
- Give users an application with a new look-and-feel
- Take advantage of new approaches like Web Services.