[December 20, 2006] Seagull Announces LegaSuite IMS Gateway Tweet By David Sims TMCnet Contributing Editor   Seagull Software, a legacy business applications transformation vendor and a company which, as noted yesterday, others would do well to take a community spirit page from, has announced general availability of the LegaSuite IMS Gateway (News - Alert), which company officials describe as "a new addition to the LegaSuite platform of integration, user interface and workflow" products for legacy applications. Prior to this announcement, LegaSuite already supported 3270 screen-based IMS application integration, along with direct IMS transaction-based integration using IBM's (News - Alert) IMS Connect. LegaSuite IMS Gateway is a new method of integration directly to IMS transactions which, officials say, does not require IMS Connect, nor the installation of any other software on the mainframe. The selling point the company sees is that IMS Gateway means that customers have "three methods for curing IMS mainframe integration headaches" with LegaSuite. "LegaSuite is designed to close the skills gap and enable existing development teams to accelerate their response to business demands in a SOA-compliant way," said Don Addington, CEO and president of Seagull Software. "Now with LegaSuite IMS Gateway, we are offering even more options that give customers architectural flexibility as they SOA-enable important IMS applications." Some of the product's features include IMS transactions can expose industry standard interfaces such as XML, Web services, (WSDL), Java Command Beans and .NET assemblies with no changes to the IMS code, and distributed architecture which means XML parsing and SOAP handling is performed 100 percent off the mainframe -- available platforms include Unix, Linux on Intel (News - Alert) and Linux on z/Series, Intel and Windows. For the past five years, Seagull Software has sponsored a United Way campaign for U.S. employees, matching employee contributions fifty cents on the dollar. Contributions this year exceed the campaign goal by 56 percent.     "I am really proud to say we knocked our United Way campaign goal out of the park this year," commented Don Addington, CEO and president. "Our employees are some of the most caring and giving people I have ever had the privilege to be associated with. They give selflessly of their time and their money to local community organizations throughout the year," he remarked. Several years ago, Seagull Software decided to consolidate its philanthropic efforts around the United Way to make the biggest impact, and to give back to the local communities that support its employees in Atlanta and other cities in the United States. According to local officials, 91 cents of every dollar contributed to the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta goes to the programs, with only 9 cents going to administration. "This is one of the reasons we support the United Way so enthusiastically," said Addington. Seagull Software employees also participated in TechBridge's Habitat for Humanity building project and the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots program this year. Seagull sells technology that transforms "legacy" applications into SOA-compliant Web services. Their LegaSuite software platform includes integration, GUI, workflow and terminal emulation technology. With LegaSuite, customers connect legacy applications on IBM mainframe, VME mainframe, System i5, UNIX/VT and Windows client/server platforms to the Web, to other middleware and to newer- generations of applications such as portals, CRM and SCM. David Sims is contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles please visit David Sims’ columnist page. IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) X This shows the structure of the IMS architecture where potential Applications Servers optimize content as well bandwidth. In Scenario Y, companies may provide Feature Servers Content Manager or Multi...more Extensible Markup Language (XML) X eXtensible Markup Language is a data formatting standard that can be integrated into On-Line Analytical Processing a multi-dimensional database architecture and other protocols such as SOAP (next) and...more Middleware X Application Service Programs such as Microsoft .NET platform use an infrastructure of components based on a client-server computing/network architecture with enhanced use of internet services called m...more [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]