The Verastream suite can help you rapidly service enable or web enable your legacy assets. The most practical legacy modernization option available, Verastream is highly recommended for even those applications in your “hard to justify” category of modernization projects. Verastream provides a strategically incremental approach that can reduce the costs and time frames typically associated with other processes. The result is that all lines of business quickly get user-friendly, agile applications that support their needs and make them more productive.

1. VERASTREAM
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Legacy Modernization Suite
Designed for Rapid Service Enablement
and Web Enablement
Self-Service
Applications
The Attachmate Verastream suite helps IT organizations
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Legacy Call Center respond to dynamic business demands without leaving
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legacy assets behind. It’s tailored for low-risk, high-speed
modernization, while quickly delivering ROI.
Partner Whether your goal is simply to improve the workflow of a
Access core legacy application or to retool it into a set of reusable
services, Verastream solutions can help. And they can do
The challenge: How do you make your legacy assets it without making the modernization project bigger than the
responsive to your dynamic business requirements?
driving business requirement.

2. Verastream Legacy Modernization Suite
Designed for Rapid Service Enablement and Web Enablement
Attachmate:
Your Legacy Modernization Partner
When we talk to businesses like yours, we
often hear that your long-valued mainframe
applications are now becoming the problem
instead of the solution. These applications
were not built for the flexibility or open-
ness required by today’s marketplace, and
mainframe expertise has turned into a
rare commodity. That’s why IT decision
makers are looking to Attachmate.
We’ve been solving mainframe access and
integration problems for almost 30 years,
so only Attachmate can address modern-
ization issues with our level of confidence.
And we are proving conclusively that
legacy systems are not as “locked up”
as commonly believed.
Our many conversations with
business analysts, IT managers, and
IT developers typically focus on these With Verastream, you reduce service enablement to four repeatable steps.
two promising approaches:
1. Verastream service enablement solutions This Verastream service enablement strategy is a significant
advance in legacy modernization because you can do it via
Verastream provides a service enablement method that lets
small, incremental steps. What’s more, it’s fast and practical,
you reuse the business applications you already have, while
with dependable ROI.
leaving the legacy logic in place. It’s done by wrapping
application components and exposing them as services so
newer technologies can plug into them. In that way, you avoid 2. Verastream web enablement solutions
the risks that come with rewriting critical functionality. Although service enablement is an effective way to integrate
applications, there are many situations where web enable-
When you use Verastream service enablement, you can put
ment is a better fit for the business requirements. If you
your web and mid-tier development staffs to work respond-
want to retain the present skill set and majority of the
ing to enterprise needs. Once you create and publish legacy
application workflow, but simply make it easier for end
services, these staffs need no knowledge of the mainframe
users to handle, Verastream web enablement can be a
to do their part of the job. Verastream offers a variety of
better, more cost effective approach.
ways to access legacy applications as well as simple drag-
and-drop methods to build services. Instead of using services to develop a new application that
performs a different function, you just leave the application
With Verastream, you can also orchestrate your services and
as-is and give users a new, uncluttered interface. It’s a
create new business processes. A powerful-but-lightweight
process that is becoming popularly known as application
tool lets you apply governing rules to ensure legacy services
rejuvenation, and Verastream does it best.
are safely tailored for mid-tier use. And with this orchestra-
tion tool, you don’t have to choose embedded business rules The real advantage of Verastream rejuvenation is that you
over reusability (or vice-versa) because designers can easily are reusing an existing application, already proven in the
build context and flow control into granular services. Best of enterprise. This reuse speeds time to market and minimizes
all, open and market-leading standards provide the context. the risks associated with a new application rollout.

3. With the rapid advance of web application
technologies, it’s easier than ever to build a
full-featured modern UI that can help you
web enable your legacy applications. So
don’t rule out Verastream rejuvenation if
that approach solves your problem most
effectively. It’s a jump-start modernization
option that offers compelling benefits not
found with other methods.
Fitting the Solution to the Need
IT departments considering legacy
modernization should be careful to avoid
over- or under-correcting the actual
problem. When you realistically assess
your present and future business demands, Verastream provides simple, controllable web enablement of your legacy applications.
the need for SOA might become obvious to
you. On the other hand, that standalone rejuvenation • CICS application modernization
project might emerge as the only one you really have to Verastream can unlock CICS data and logic for reuse
handle for the foreseeable future. As many businesses are in SOAs or other enterprise initiatives. It uses a flexible
discovering, the need usually lies somewhere in between. abstraction methodology and a native CICS adapter
What is less ambiguous is the imperative for flexibility in that provide high-performance integration with any
any chosen solution. mid-tier .NET or J2EE application.
If your needs are hard to assess, remember that Verastream
is designed to take the guesswork out of your decision
making. Just choose the capability you want—on-the-fly
rejuvenation, customized presentation, or full-blown
SOA—and Verastream can help.
Verastream Modernization Suite:
Built for Short- and Long-Term Strategies
Verastream is widely recognized for providing needed results
without disturbing mainframe-application code or daily
business processes. Here are some integration methods
that might match your own IT needs:
• Mainframe modernization
With Verastream, you can encapsulate mainframe data
The flexible Verastream deployment architecture
and logic via the application interface to enable participa- provides an unmatched choice of integration options.
tion in today’s SOAs. Business processes can be exposed
as web services, XML, Java, or .NET components.
• CICS and IMS modernization
Verastream lets you service enable data
and logic from programs developed for the
“Even though the inputs may be different – one may CICS and IMS environments. The resulting
be batch, one may be a standard EDI transaction, services can be mixed, matched, and reused
one may be a pipe-delimited transaction with for new application development.
socket communications – we use the same Verastream: the only legacy modernization
Verastream-created web service to the patient suite that lets you harvest what you need,
account, no matter what the inbound is.” when you need it, for any purpose. Without
making the project bigger than the goal itself.
— Joe Kelly, Integration Manager, Universal Health Services

4. Solving Real-World Problems
Organizations around the world are using the Verastream legacy modernization suite to keep pace with evolving business
demands. Here are some of them:
Avis Europe Borough of Manhattan San Bernardino (Calif.) County
Removed green screen obstacles Community College Streamlined traffic-ticket processing by
from mainframe-based customer and Modernized online class registration automating data entry into master green-
pricing applications. with custom rejuvenation of mainframe- screen application.
Results
based system. Results
• Faster responses to competitive pressures. Results • Increased throughput by a factor of four.
• Greater flexibility when implementing • Decreased impact on mainframe, • Gave courthouse clerks time to interact
new business solutions. web server, and network resources. with the public and do higher-level work.
• Real-time customer access to account • More online registrations; less
information via web site. demand on staff. Tenix Solutions
“Webified” mainframe-based call center
Avis France Pharmerica applications.
Transformed IBM Mainframe-based legacy Web-enabled AS/400-based cash- Results
functionality into reusable services. posting system.
• Call center reps get a single, consolidated
Results Results view of data from multiple screens.
• Improved management of satellite offices. • Reduced cash-posting process from • Operator error is decreased.
• Better communication with business 13 green screens to one web screen. • Customer satisfaction is improved.
partners. • Reduced training time from two weeks
• Solution rolled out in six weeks. to less than one day.
Century National Insurance PPG subsidiary Lynx
Created a B2B solution by web-enabling Service-enabled host functionality, with
HP-based applications for brokers and agents. no impact to existing mainframes or
daily operations.
Results
Results
• Eliminated need to replicate data and
programming. • A common user interface across
the enterprise.
• Enabled immediate validation of profiles
and risk, for instant policy issuance. • Streamlined access for CSRs and
business partners.
• Faster claims processing.
Countrywide
Integrated new CRM system in a mixed-
legacy environment. “Verastream has eliminated the keying in, reviewing,
Results
and approving of thousands of pages of paperwork
• Provided a real-time, Siebel-centric
view of the claims lifecycle. for us. And because it’s so fast and easy to use, it’s
• Reduced call center operation costs. given us huge cost savings. We continue to find new
uses for Verastream every day.”
— Brad Taylor, Solutions Architect, Eplica, Employment-Staffing Company
All of these organizations share one significant benefit: By using Verastream to solve an immediate problem, they now have
a rapid-application development platform in place for ongoing projects. They did not have to rewrite legacy code or disrupt
day-to-day business operations. You can find out the details of these and more real-life implementations under “Customer
Stories” at www.attachmate.com.
Could Verastream help you put your legacy assets to work in new and profitable ways? Contact us today at any of the
locations listed on the next page.
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