Today’s organizations are looking to SOA to
improve their IT processes to better support business initiatives. When
considering the mainframe’s involvement in SOA, most organizations never
look past simple web service-enablement of discrete mainframe transactions.
During this session we will discuss a different approach that results in
truly bringing the mainframe into your SOA strategy ensuring key
applications, data, batch, and more importantly, human resources actively
participate in your SOA initiatives.
About the Speaker:
As Chief Strategy Officer of GT Software, Rob Morris is responsible for
the planning, integration, and marketing of GT Software product
solutions to the global market. Prior to GT Software, Mr. Morris held a
variety of sales, marketing, and product management positions at
industry leaders KnowledgeWare, Forté Software, ClientSoft (now NEON
systems) and Jacada.
Mr. Morris has an extensive background in
application development and integration including experience with CASE
methodologies, distributed systems, as well as midrange and mainframe
environments. Mr. Morris speaks frequently at customer and industry
events including Gartner Symposium, Java One, IBM Common, IBM
Transaction and Messaging, and IBM CICS and IMS