Caseworkers for the State of Wisconsin needed to access their records, but it was hard to do with the state’s IT infrastructure. Wisconsin operates more than 30 agencies whose staff accesses applications and critical information on about 5.5 million Wisconsin residents that is housed on mainframes and servers.
The state’s employees needed to be able to quickly access legacy data in real time, and ultimately selected Cape Clear Software’s Enterprise Services Bus software. Cape Clear provides ways to coordinate Web services on top of the existing messaging infrastructure. As part of the contract, the state also implemented Neon System’s Shadow z/Services, a component of the Shadow RTE mainframe integration suite, which offers a foundation for mainframe integration for bi-directionality between legacy screens and modular-based apps in SOA.
