FORMULA Opensoft

NEON's strategy as a combined entity is to provide a suite of software offerings ultimately built upon a unified platform which benefits from proven best-of-breed functionality for all mainframe integration and migration needs, backed with a world-class service and support organization. NEON has a long history of providing mission-critical data level integration and recently augmented these tools with a technology that allows the mainframe to participate within a real-time Event-Driven Architecture. ClientSoft has for many years had the industry’s leading mainframe Web services solution to support application level integration within Service-Oriented Architectures. The two products are architecturally similar and this high degree of compatibility gives us optimism we can quickly deliver a unified technology that provides customers with the following benefits:

Reduced total cost of ownership for mainframe systems by reducing the number of products, platforms and management resources for mainframe integration

Greater reliability of composite applications that rely on mainframes

Scope to selectively migrate applications and data off mainframe systems

Improved business agility by removing barriers to re-use of critical mainframe systems

The new combined product set will be delivered in a non-disruptive manner and will provide full, backward compatibility with existing installations.