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Hubspan Sees Growth in Cloud-Based Application Integration
April 10, 2012 Alex Woodie
… Read moreApplication integration is one of those IT disciplines that is begging for simplification. Since the early days of networked business computing, the task of keeping data flowing between applications has been a big pain in the IT department–and a giant source of revenue for service providers. It’s also an area that business process service provider Hubspan sees as a big opportunity to address with its cloud-based integration offering.
Hubspan’s flagship platform is a cloud-based integration service called the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform. The product can be thought of as a hosted EDI translator on steroids. But WebSpan goes beyond moving
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Cloud Integration Issues Loom on Horizon, EXTOL Says
December 6, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read moreWhat’s your cloud integration strategy? If you’re like most IBM i shops, much of your data interchange is handled via good old EDI or flat file transfers. But the rapid spread of cloud services is hastening the move to more sophisticated forms of data and application integration and interchange. According to EXTOL, which develops integration broker software for IBM i and other platforms, the day is fast approaching when companies will need new techniques for integrating cloud services into their business processes.
IT Jungle caught up with EXTOL vice president of product management Jim O’Leary telephonically as he attended
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Adobe Flash Builder for the iSeries Programmer, Part 3
November 4, 2011 Shannon O'Donnell
… Read moreNOTE: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
In my previous articles in this series, I showed you how to use Flash Builder to create a customer information GUI. You learned how to add visual components such as input text boxes, drop down lists, and even a tab navigator control. In this article, I will show you how to make your GUI into a server client that talks to Websphere Application Server Express running on your iSeries, and I will show you how to exchange data with the iSeries DB2/400 database.
I will also demonstrate how
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Hubspan Unveils Cloud-Based Invoicing
September 27, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read moreHubspan is augmenting its cloud-based B2B data exchange platform with an invoicing solution called SnapShot for Invoice. The solution, which is sold as an add-on to its core trading system, automatically renders PDF images of electronic invoices during the B2B integration process.
Hubspan’s flagship trading platform, called the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform, is a next-generation hosted EDI solution that helps simplify the tedious task of connecting buyers, sellers, and other participants in various industrial and commercial supply chains. The service automates various EDI-type tasks, including message translation, data validation, choreography, activity monitoring, and multi-party routing. It supports all types of
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IBM Goes Dojo with HATS V8
August 16, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i developers got new tools for creating modern Web 2.0 style interfaces last week when IBM started shipping Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) version 8. Chief among the cool new features is support for the Dojo Toolkit, which gives developers a collection of pre-cast widgets for rapidly building interactive websites. Other notable new features include JSR286 support, type-ahead capabilities, iPad support, and generation of RESTful Web services. IBM also launched Host Integration Solutions (HIS) version 8.
HATS is a rules-based screen transformation engine that turns 5250 and 3270 screens into graphical Web clients, Java- or Lotus-based rich
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Flux Hooks Up with MFT Consultancy
July 26, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read moreJob scheduler developer Flux last week announced a partnership with File Transfer Consulting that will bring its customers a new resource for designing managed file transfer (MFT) systems.
Flux is a Java-based suite of workload automation and MFT tools that are used to streamline the flow of work and documents across servers, including the IBM i server. The software, which we wrote about last month, can initiate remote services over the Web via REST and SOAP interfaces, and uses a Web browser for all design and management tasks.
Flux is now one of the tools that File Transfer Consulting
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IBM Distributing WSDL2RPG via Integrated Web Services for i
June 16, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i shops getting involved in Web services and the use of Web services description language (WSDL) executables may be interested to know that earlier this year IBM announced the availability of WSDL2RPG, an open source product used to generate RPG stub code from a WSDL file, thereby simplifying the integration of WSDL-based Web services into the IBM i’s ILE environment.
On February 17, IBM announced the availability of WSDL2RPG from its Integrated Web Services for i offering Web page at www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/iws/index.html. The set of tools, often dubbed WS-i, includes an integrated Web services server based on the Apache
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Flux Delivers Automation for Changing Workloads
June 14, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read moreIBM i shops that are in the market for a combined job scheduler and managed file transfer (MFT) solution may want to check out Flux. The Las Vegas company’s Java-based workload automation and MFT tool, also called Flux, can orchestrate file movements and initiate processing on a wide range of platforms, including IBM‘s midrange servers. With the launch of Flux 7.11 last month, the tool gets a REST Web services API, better integration with Cognos, and enhancements to its Web browser-based UI.
Flux is used to create and execute automated workflows that involve a combination of steps
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nuBridges Unveils TaaS, a Hosted Data Tokenization Service
February 22, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read morenuBridges last week unveiled a new hosted version of its software that uses tokenization to protect sensitive data. The new offering, which is called nuBridges Protect Tokenization as a Service (TaaS), is being delivered with nuBridges’ new business partner, Verizon Business. Customers who subscribe to the new service will get the benefit of tokenization for IBM i and other servers, but none of the burden of managing the tokenization environment.
nuBridges Protect TaaS is a basically hosted version of the company’s nuBridges Protect Token Manager that runs on Verizon Business’ computing as a service (CaaS) offering. Under TaaS, customers
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Hubspan Automates B2B from the Cloud
February 15, 2011 Alex Woodie
… Read moreWhether or not your applications run in “the cloud” or on a server located in room 23, you have a need for data and process integration. One vendor that’s trying to leverage the software as a service (SaaS) advantage for on-premise and hosted integration routines is Hubspan. Last week, the Seattle, Washington, software developer unveiled a cloud-based integration solution for companies in the biotech industry.
Hubspan was founded in 2000 with the goal of delivering B2B integration as a service that’s accessed over the Web. Since then, some of the terms have changed, notably “the cloud,” which now seems
