StrikeIron SOA Express for Excel Customer Testimonials

GT Software

GT Software is a leading provider of enterprise application and data solutions that integrate mainframe data and applications into client/server and Web applications using ODBC, JDBC, J2EE and Web services. GT Software has over 2,000 installations worldwide, and provides high–quality, innovative and cost–effective solutions for Fortune 1000 companies.

GT Software’s clients needed a straightforward business process that allowed mainframe data to be readily accessible with minimal programming.

Now with StrikeIron’s SOA Express for Excel and no extra programming, GT Software’s Ivory Web Services solution generates WSDL from mainframe transactions that is consumed by StrikeIron SOA Express for Excel through an Excel spreadsheet. Excel then immediately presents this information to the user.

Honda Motor Europe

Honda Motor Europe (South) sells Honda automobiles and motorcycles in southern Europe. To check the online financial status of their network of dealers, managers had to input a dealer code, check the data, then input a second dealer code and so on to access its legacy mainframe databases.

In order to create charts and graphs from this data, users were copying from the databases into an Excel spreadsheet with a high potential of input errors or requesting customized reports from the I.T. department. Honda’s I.T. managers needed a faster, easier and more flexible way for their users to directly access the mainframe databases.

Honda’s Netmanage OnWeb product generates Web services that connect to its mainframe system. With StrikeIron’s SOA Express for Excel, these Web services can be dragged and dropped directly into an Excel spreadsheet. In this way, the mainframe data for all dealers is immediately available and can be automatically refreshed all at once with StrikeIron SOA Express for Excel.

With the most up–to–date mainframe data easily accessible within Excel, Honda’s managers can quickly monitor the financial status of their dealers and generate charts and graphs, without writing a single line of code. The error–prone, manual process of copying mainframe data to Excel and the need for customized reports is now a thing of the past.

Momentum

Momentum is a leading provider of consulting services to corporations building Service–Oriented Enterprises. Momentum provides skilled and experienced consultants for planning, analysis, installation and integration of enterprise solutions. Corporations choose Momentum’s SOI/EAI consultants to achieve rapid and comprehensive results in the evolution of their enterprise architectures.

Momentum is continually looking for tools and technology that can be applied to its quiver of enterprise solutions. Its consultants require proven technology that assists its clients in the rapid integration of Web services and drive the competitive requirements of efficiency and cost reduction.

Momentum is using StrikeIron’s SOA Express for Excel and the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace to decrease the cost of maintenance and support and provide rapid integration of B2B and B2C business solutions for its customers.