Applications based on the classic IBM datastream model remain surprisingly persistent in today's Web services world.
With GT Software's Ivory VisualConnect, Blue Turtle Technologies is able to expose classic 3270 and 5250 applications and callable CICS transactions to Web services, changing their interface without modifying the actual applications.
VisualConnect has its own backend that ties into GT Software's other Ivory family tools to complete the company's modernisation offerings.
Geoff Hardwick, Business Development Manager at Blue Turtle, explained that VisualConnect reduced the work needed to build a Web front-end, noting that "it is all configurations, not code generation. You don't have to be a Java programmer," said Hardwick.
VisualConnect is sold in conjunction with Ivory Services Architect and Ivory Data Access, two programmatic solutions that expose mainframe transactions and modify code to build something new, rather than just revisualising applications. "It is the simplicity of GT Software's solution that gives us a competitive-edge in the market," continued Hardwick.
VisualConnect can run natively on a zSeries mainframe or reside within Windows, Unix or multitier Linux environments.
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Blue Turtle Technologies provides solutions for optimising, enhancing and leveraging existing IT investment, and supporting the cost-effective delivery of new technology initiatives. With experience from mainframe to desktop, Blue Turtle delivers solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures employing innovative software products, backed by 'best-practice' implementation services. Blue Turtle's strategy leverages 'best-in-class' software products brought together from leading international and South African software providers to deliver compelling and cost-effective technology management solutions to customers.
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