APIs for the I The Role of APIs

APIs for the I The Role of APIs and Web Services in the Era of Digital Business Transformation

Yesterday’s Applications. . .

Today’s User Experience

4 APIs are Key to Digital Transformation APIs drive innovation: Big Data, Cloud, Io. T and Mobile APIs enable Bimodal IT: “ Bimodal IT is the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery, one focused on stability and the other on agility. Mode 1 is traditional and sequential, emphasizing safety and accuracy. Mode 2 is exploratory and nonlinear, emphasizing agility and speed“

Customer: Southwest Gas Customer Self Service § Company: Largest gas supplier in Arizona and Nevada, providing natural gas to more than 1. 6 million customers in the two states, as well as portions of California. § Objective: Enable web self-service from Customer Information Systems using web services in order to reduce call center volume. § Results § § 5 Functional: Customers can go online to - § § § Start, stop or move utility service Manage payments and billing preferences, receive payment alerts Update account information (address, email) Technical: § § Use Rocket API to generate web services from existing CIS apps Integration with Oracle

6 Customer: Safety Insurance Customer Service and Quoting Application § Company: Premier provider of auto, home, and business owners insurance in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. § § Objective: Modernize the IBM i application beyond the UI Results § § Functional: Customer Service Reps § Increased productivity with improved access to 3 rd party data § Insurance Quotes are now real time and not delayed for call backs Technical: § Both Real Time and Batch workflows that can be invoked from anywhere. § IBM I, PHP on the Web Site 3 rd Party Data can be integrated into the main quoting system

7 Efficient, easy-to-use application

Customer: JM Family Web Services & Call Center Modernization ¡ Company: Toyota retailer and services; 24 th Largest private company in U. S. ¡ Objective: Dealer services; CSR agent desktop ¡ Results: • Provide Web services to their 165 dealerships via dealer portal • Unified agent desktop for their World Omni Financial group • Senior architect statement: “We’re an $11 billion business. $10 billion runs on Rocket Software. ”

Rocket API

Web services, automation, mobile ¡ Create services from legacy applications to allow integration in SOA and WOA ¡ Provides link between web architectures and existing apps ¡ Develop any interface: Web Services (SOAP and REST), Java. Bean, XML ¡ Deploy services to distributed, IBM i & Mainframe Servers © 2012 Rocket Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

12 Expose Enterprise Assets as Web APIs Analytics, ESB, BPM Search Web/Mobile Services SQL JDBC Messages XML/SOAP/REST JMS Security Load Balancing Enterprise Applications on System z Enterprise Applications on IBM I Enterprise Applications on UNIX Enterprise Applications on VME Logging Enterprise Applications on Windows Cloud apps Any JDBC database SQL Server SOAP/REST Sybase Oracle Other datasources

Development Toolkit Features ¡ Screen-based • • • Reuse screen maps Wizard-driven service development Session Pooling and Parking Comprehensive set of operations to handle complex loops Built in Error handlers ¡ Business logic • • Transactional access to CICS/IMS/Natural/ROA Two-phase commit /rollback capability Transformation Tools Composite Flows (Mix with Terminal Flows) ¡ Data • Any ODBC/JDBC data source • Any mainframe relational and non-relational data: DB 2, VSAM, PS, IMS, Adabas via Rocket Data Virtualization

Stages of a Screen Microflow ¡ 4 stages to a microflow ¡ Stages provide application scalability ¡ Stages increase performance and response time

Orchestrate Services ¡ Combine granular services into composite services ¡ Combine services from different platforms ¡ Keep execution on the same runtime engine © 2012 Rocket Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Enterprise environment ¡ Version control ¡ Automated builds with ANT scripts ¡ Release management with Rocket or any release management software ¡ Validation - create scenarios using SOAP UI plugin ¡ Security • • SSL/SSH for in-flight data Supports WS-Security standard Role based security (JAAS and rules engine on the mainframe) Request routing ¡ Logging • • • Log categories allow for granularity Configurable logging targets (file, DB) Detailed trace capability on the mainframe, SMF logging © 2012 Rocket Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Enterprise Deployment and Integration

19 Supported runtime platforms ¡ Windows ¡ Linux ¡ UNIX ¡ OS/400