Atlanta-based Seagull Software announced LegaSuite for CICS, a flexible and comprehensive solution for transforming CICS (Customer Information Control System) applications into SOA assets. Among its many unique features, LegaSuite for CICS supports multiple run-time architectures from one development effort and offers integrated Business Process Management (BPM) workflow capabilities.

 

"Seagull Software's vision is to lead the market for high-performance mainframe integration, Web-enablement and business process management solutions that eliminate custom coding," said Don Addington(pictured), Seagull Software President and CEO. "Enterprise IT shops want to position themselves to quickly assemble new composite applications that incorporate reusable mainframe Web services, and LegaSuite for CICS makes that a reality today."

 

Customers can implement LegaSuite with no changes to their CICS applications, and little or no coding. Using this integrated platform of development tools and runtime software enterprises can:

 "LegaSuite for CICS is the first solution to incorporate tightly integrated business process modeling, orchestration, execution and measurement," commented Ardy Franssen, Vice President of product management, Seagull Software. "When you combine SOA Web services with BPM, you get a powerful combination that really helps IT accelerate its response to business change."

 

LegaSuite for CICS works stand-alone, and is also used to fill the legacy integration gap in other middleware. It exposes industry-standard interfaces that are easily consumed by these EAI and ESB technologies, and by other applications such as portals, CRM and SCM. In addition, It includes modeling tools that business analysts and programmers can use to model services and business processes.

LegaSuite for CICS is currently available. LegaSuite for CICS is part of the LegaSuite legacy liberation platform, which also supports SOA-compliant application integration and BPM for IMS, IDMS and VME mainframe applications, midrange applications running on DEC VAX/VT and iSeries, and Windows applications.