HOSTBRIDGE TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTED INTO IBM SOA SPECIALTY.

HostBridge Technology, Houston, has announced its acceptance to the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement HostBridge integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA.

"SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, vice president of IBM SOA and WebSphere. "HostBridge Technology commitment to SOA provides their customers with a powerful way to reduce integration costs while rapidly deploying operational SOA applications."

HostBridge is mainframe-based software that allows you to integrate mainframe CICS applications with any type of distributed application. Fast, easy installation provides immediate access to your CICS resources as XML documents or web services in an SOA. HostBridge has the unique ability to allow developers to integrate legacy CICS applications using field names rather than row/column coordinates. With HostBridge, there is no screen scraping and no change to existing applications.

"We are thrilled to be aligned with IBM and the IBM SOA Specialty program," said Russ Teubner, CEO, HostBridge Technology. "The steady adoption of web services and the rapid rise of IBM as a leader in SOA have made it a requirement to allow existing CICS applications to participate in the new integration models. Organizations no longer have time to migrate without risking the loss of their competitive advantage to other organizations that simply integrate and move on."

About HostBridge Technology

HostBridge Technology provides software for IBM S/390 and zSeries customers with an ongoing investment in CICS applications. Using the HostBridge U.S. Patented software, any middle-tier application can securely invoke CICS transactions and receive their output as an XML document. By providing real-time XML access, along with high-performance process automation, HostBridge allows enterprises to take a quantum leap forward in integrating CICS applications into other business processes or offering CICS applications as Web Services. HostBridge customers include Delta Dental, Navy Federal Credit Union, New York City Department of Education, Experian, Farm Credit Services, Lockheed Martin, Main Street America Group, and others.

For more information, visit: http://www.hostbridge.com or call 512/507-8244.