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This article interviews Jim Rhyne, engineer for eServer Tools Technology and Enterprise Modernization at IBM, and Scott Cosby, program director of WebSphere Business Integration at IBM, on their perspectives about legacy integration. For Rhyne, legacy integration means building software services that combine existing applications on the mainframe with combined business components that are written on distributed systems such as Java and .NET. According to Cosby, legacy integration involves bringing together people, processes and information. With people, it is about incorporating their expertise and business knowledge, and enabling them to bring this together with processes and information to make informed, timely decisions. Regarding information, there is not single repository with all of the company's information. Tools are needed to bring information from all different systems and provide a historical view of where the information came from, so people across the organization can make more intelligent, responsible decisions. Finally, when viewing processes, organizations need to have the capability to tie together existing and new processes that help drive their overall business. |
