While independent and financially self-sufficient, SHARE maintains an extremely 
   close partnership with IBM and its subsidiaries. On this page, you will find 
   resources from different areas of IBM that will help you improve your IT 
   career. Check back often for updated information.

Resources

• Using Advanced Technology Development Solutions to Improve Financial Services Effectiveness  
  
  An analyst whitepaper that addresses ways that financial services institutions (FSIs) are finding to remain competitive as the global credit crisis and the weakening U.S. Read the white paper.

• Come by the EGL Cafe! EGL is IBM's newest business language that provides a simpler, more productive way to write cross-platform, network-enabled business solutions for distributed computing environments. Would you like a one-stop place for lots of interesting topics related to EGL or Enterprise Modernization language? Come join the EGL Cafe to get free downloads, expert articles and learning tools. 

• Transform Terminal Applications - Try HATS Toolkit V7.1 at No Charge
  The Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) Toolkit gives you all the tools you need to easily extend your legacy applications. The HATS Toolkit is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse-based, IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform that enables you to develop new Web, portal and rich-client applications. HATS makes your 3270 and 5250 applications available as HTML through the most popular Web browsers, while converting your host screens to a Web look and feel. Visit this link for more information. 

• IBM Rational Business Developer with EGL by Ben Margolis with forward by Hayden Lindsey
  
  This book introduces IBM Rational Business Developer, a software environment that lets you write enterprise applications quickly. The main subject is EGL which is a high-level language at the heart of Rational Business Developer. Order the book.

• Rational Business Developer/EGL - Free Technical (Virtual) Workshop
  
  Explore the emerging cross-platform rapid development environment that enables you to build Java™ -based Web applications using the EGL language. Discover how quickly you can learn EGL and build Java-based Web, SOA and BIRT reporting without knowing the Java language. Register today!

• Using Rational Business Developer to Enhance Your Developer Productivity Webcast
  
  Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) extends the Rational software development platform with a simplified high-level programming language that enables business-oriented developers who have little or no experience with Java, Web technologies or Service Oriented Architecture, to create enterprise-class applications and services quickly and easily. It also allows these same developers who may have little or no mainframe programming experience to quickly create traditional mainframe components. In this teleconference, you'll hear an overview of how EGL eliminates the need for tedious and error-prone low level coding, so developers can focus on business requirements. Register for the Webcast.

• Accelerate Delivery of Business Solutions with IBM Rational Business Developer Software white paper
  
  New integrated information solutions that enable innovative interactions with partners, customers and employees are at the top of CIOs’ agendas in 2008. Accomplishing this goal requires optimal use of existing IT know-how. IT man­agers need to tap into the full range of skills available to speed improvements to current enterprise applications and accelerate the move to service-oriented architecture (SOA). Read the white paper.

• Developer Productivity Study – EGL vs. .NET white paper
  
  Read this new white paper comparing IBM Developer Tools to Microsoft Developer Tools. IBM commissioned Branham Group Inc. to perform an objective study evaluating the development productivity differences required to build a useful working application, using tools that support IBM's Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) and Microsoft's .NET. View the white paper.