zSeries applications and their developers are at the heart of todays business. It is estimated that there is more than 5 billion lines of new COBOL code written yearly. Providing COBOL application developers tools to make their development, testing, deployment and maintenance efforts more productive, can make businesses more efficient and effective.

In companies around the world, CICS has long served as the foundation of their business software, processing huge volumes of transactions accurately and consistently. It is estimated that there are more than 40,000 IBM CICS systems alone that continue to process 75-80 percent of critical enterprise transactions.

But did you know that the latest enhancements to CICS Transaction Server greatly expand the value that CICS can offer in the e-business, on demand world?

For example, limitations on how CICS communicates with other applications have been removed – so today’s CICS TS is ready to play an integral role in service-oriented architectures (SOA) and can act as both a provider and a requestor of Web Services.

Attend one of our free seminars and find out how you can improve your productivity with IBM application and problem determination tools and extract even more value from your investment in CICS, while improving the flexibility and responsiveness of your business.