July 2009 marks the 40th birthday of CICS®, and there’s every reason to be confident that CICS will be around for a long time to come. The largest enterprises in the world bet their business daily on the robust, reliable transaction processing of CICS, which handles more than 30 billion transactions per day at a value of more than $1 trillion per week. And increasingly, organizations are extracting greater value from trusted CICS applications and data thanks to services-based integration. Of course CICS integration hasn’t been a cakewalk, yet today there’s great reason to celebrate. Although legacy CICS applications have posed any number of challenges on the road to services-based integration, we’ve come a very long way, and CICS can now legitimately claim as a full-fledged participant in services architectures of every shape and size.

Over the past decade, HostBridgeTM has had a significant role in enabling Webservices integration for CICS. And our passion for high-fidelity CICS integration has reaped rewards for customers in every major business sector. So to honor CICS and because we hope the story has relevance and value for you, we offer this brief history of how HostBridge and IBM make high-fidelity CICS integration real.

Read more in the High-Fidelity CICS® Integration white paper from HostBridge Technologies