Building a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a strategic initiative for many leading enterprises and serves as the foundation for building composite applications and creating IT agility. SOA means that logical software components can be discovered and reused with no knowledge of their underlying technologies or location. It relies on the industry-wide support for Web Services-based protocols that provide the standard underpinning for achieving universal interoperability and reusability.
To capitalize on these initiatives, enterprises must make their legacy systems part of their SOA, by making their services available as standard web services. When doing so, enterprises face the challenge of service-enabling these existing applications, and while some applications can be repackaged easily as standard Web Services, some are not. Legacy systems such as those that run on the mainframe, Tandem, or OpenVMS prove to be a challenge, due to their original designs and technologies.
The Attunity Integration Suite facilitates the repackaging of existing application services as standard Web Services. By working with applications on many legacy platforms, Attunity provides a proven and robust solution for service-enabling the enterprise and building a foundation for SOA.
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