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Bringing Legacy Assets to the Digital Table with ‘Leapfrog SOA’

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) was the hottest thing going in enterprise IT a decade ago, until the cloud took off and stole all of its thunder. Nevertheless, SOA – and its requisite services – are still around, and still provide value to the enterprises that struggled to get the approach up and running.

Wolseley UK (“Wolseley”) is the UK operating company of Wolseley plc, the world's number one distributor of heating and plumbing products and a leading supplier of builders' products to the professional market. As part of a longer term strategy to extend functionality from a core legacy application Wolseley UK looked to Jubilant for a modern terminal emulator that could be used natively. Wolseley currently uses a client based terminal screen based application at the core of its  critical business systems.