GT Software and PolarLake Partner to Provide Complete Mainframe Web Services Solutions
Published October 18, 2004 / Press Releases
Atlanta-based GT Software, a leading provider of enterprise mainframe integration solutions and PolarLake, a leader in standards-based incremental integration, today announced that the two companies are working together to give customers the ability to extend the benefits of native mainframe Web services across the enterprise, using GT Software's Ivory™ Web services product and PolarLake's Integration Suite 4.0. As part of this agreement, the two companies will jointly market and deliver complementary software solutions.
The combination of GT Software and PolarLake will enable mainframe legacy applications to be fully integrated into a modern, standards-based integration platform built on XML and Web Services. PolarLake and GT Software solutions will help customers leverage their existing technology investments, while realizing the benefits associated with an enterprise-wide integration strategy based on the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
"We were extremely impressed at how easily Ivory integrated with our solutions," said Ronan Bradley, CEO of PolarLake. "GT Software has been in the mainframe integration space for more than 20 years. They know and understand the market and how companies want to leverage their mainframe assets. Together, our solutions provide a robust integration platform that can now encompass the whole enterprise."
"We are pleased to announce our partnership with PolarLake," said Joe Ganem, President and CEO of GT Software. "As more companies adopt a Service-Oriented Architecture, an Enterprise Service Bus will be a critical part of its success."
Ivory Web Services offers an innovative solution for companies that want to move ahead to SOA, but still need to communicate with lBM legacy applications in order to provide enterprise-wide service routines. With Ivory, mainframe legacy applications can communicate seamlessly with open systems platforms, such as J2EE, .NET and others. Ivory is a unique solution that performs Web services and generates WSDL without the need to write programs.
PolarLake provides a complete suite of products for implementing XML and Web Services-based integration solutions, enabling the rapid delivery of applications spanning multiple technologies and organizations. PolarLake's products deliver rapid Return on Investment by focusing on solving high value business problems with a standards based approach capable of evolving and expanding to address the longer term objectives of the organization.
About PolarLake
PolarLake enables firms to deliver on the full promise of EDM, integrating into downstream systems with 75% less time and 80% less resources than generic ETL products. Its flagship product, PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Distribution) is a domain specific Integration application built to manage to end-to-end process of Reference Data Distribution.
PolarLake RDD provides unique capabilities for Business Operations, Business Analysts and Technology to manage and control Reference Data Distribution. PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in its space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution and included in the Gartner visionaries’ quadrant. PolarLake’s clients include Global Sell side, Buy side and Asset Servicing Institutions.
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