The mainframe services discovered by OpenConnect’s soaSolution tools will expose them to Proforma’s ProVision BPM tool, which will map them via its Common Interchange Format, CIF.
The majority of the world’s mission-critical business systems still reside on mainframes, and numerous approaches have emerged to expose them and open them up to more modern tools that can make them available on the web, or integrate them with other internal or external processes.
OpenConnect, which is better known for its screen-scraping tools, uses an approach that situates an agent that listens for mainframe interactions, parses them, and reports which interactions appear to constitute identifiable processes. From that, the output can be used by business analysts to understand what kind of work is actually being done on legacy systems, or to automatically expose them as Web Services Definition Language form.
Proforma’s CIF protocol is supported by ACI, Appian, DST, Fuego, Fujitsu, Lombardi Software, Metastorm, Pegasystems, InRule, and Trinity Millennium.
