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Web Modernization

How can you modernize your 3270 applications whithout needing intermediate server or source code modification?
Central applications represent true business capital. They are the fruit of decades of development, incorporating hundreds of transactions and millions of pieces of data, and they support every companys key business processes. Their value, their reliability, and the quality of their technical environment, performance, and security are beyond question. However, as their user interface ages and becomes obsolete, they may no longer meet IT standards in terms of navigation and graphic presentation. This may constrain usability and become a cause for concern. So, for the sake of productivity and ease of use, it is essential that they evolve. VIRTEL WEB Modernization makes it possible to modernize central applications without running the risk of migrating them or rewriting them, while still capitalizing on investments in earlier applications.

Modernize your user interfaces ultra-easily with the evolutionary options offered by VIRTEL Web Modernization.
The goal is to give users a new, easier-to-use Web applications interface that is compatible with their workstations and that incorporates new functionalities. Depending on each companys needs and constraints, this can range from a simple 1:1 revamp to the creation of a dynamic Web interface. Afterward, the application takes on the appearance of a true Web application, while the transactions and the data still reside on the mainframe system platform. Thus, these Web interfaces contribute toward reduced user-training time and costs, while increasing users efficiency and productivity.

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Solutions that meet each companys goals

- Providing user interface improvements in terms of navigation, display, and graphics-presentation usability. - Completely recasting the interface and transforming it into a dynamic Web interface, incorporating new navigation functionalities: dynamic lists, menus, check boxes, maskable area, help popup, emails, generation of pdf, Excel or XML documents, etc. - Reorganising pages and navigation (regroupment of 3270 screens into fewer Web pages, etc.). - Enabling the evolution of the application itself, and giving it a new Web interface. - Creating a composite Web interface based on multiple different central applications.

Simplicity assisting innovation.

As a transactional communications monitor and HTTP server installed on the host, VIRTEL Web Modernization uses Web technologies standards to modernize the mainframe applications interface. The applications server doesnt function in a distributed environment; instead, it runs directly on the mainframe. Thus the solution is as fast, robust, secure and scalable as the mainframe it runs on. The use of REST architecture and the incorporation of AJAX concepts into the VIRTEL Web Modernization module offer the option of transforming central-site applications into true dynamic Web applications, with no need for redevelopping, or modifying the applications source code. These applications benefit from the latest technological advances and from the Web 2.0 dynamic. Therefore, the options for the evolution and modernization of the user interface are expanded. Mainframe applications can look and behave like Web applications with new interfaces based on a true Web navigation logic and ergonomics. To synthesize, the integration of these technologies into the VIRTEL Web Modernization module makes it possible to offer businesses three major advantages: - Preserving the mainframe application, without necessarily changing it. - Improving the interface without degrading the performance of the application. - Using JavaScript libraries, as JQuery or Yahoo, to increase improvement possibilities.

and adapt themselves to the context of each project

- Avoiding any code modification, through the implementation of a non-intrusive solution. - Providing functional updates at the interface level ... or adding nothing at all. - Enabling updating of the functionalities of the application ... or changing nothing at all. - Coping with the unavailability of technical support teams. - Complying with deadline constraints. - Staying within the scope of budgetary constraints.

With VIRTEL Web Modernization, you can adapt your central applications to reflect your users current habits and work methods.

> Choosing Virtel Web Modernization means choosing:

A technical architecture that makes all the difference
mainframe/Web cross-disciplinary expertise. The solution is ongoing and evolutionary: further migration or redevelopment of the applications part in a different environment will have no impact on the user interface.

100% host-based solution: no intermediate server, no Java applet, no plugin. Applications performance is preserved. The code is not dispersed over multiple platforms, but remains on the mainframe: a single, unique source. Maximum security is maintained. Implementation and operation are simplified.

Multiple modernization options

Ongoing benefit from prior investments in applications

No application rewriting or migration. The applications become naturally Web. Transactions, data, and applications displays remain independent. The latest Web 2.0 technologies can be used to implement the new interface. Interface implementation does not require

Although they stay on the host, the central applications become true dynamic Web applications. The use of AJAX technologies preserves mainframe performance. The availability of a broad range of JavaScript Open Source libraries enables substantial enrichment of the user interface. No rewriting. No need for intermediate servers. No need to use Java; therefore, memory and CPU inflation are avoided, along with the associated software costs.

An autonomous Web interface

Cost control

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

Platform: System z, z/OS, or z/VSE, OS/390, MVS,. 3270 applications: COBOL, CICS or IMS, TSO, Natural,etc. User station: Thin client equipped with a browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, etc.). Mainframe security : RACF, ACF2, TSS, AT-TLS (SSL encryption) IP security : Proxy, SSL, SSO, etc.

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