Mainframe infrastructures of today bear little resemblance to the rigid, monolithic systems of the past. Industry standards and integration tools have matured to provide increased flexibility and intuitive integrated development environments to simplify reusing legacy data sources in new application development initiatives. As this report has shown, utilizing zIIP specialty engines as part of your SOA enablement strategy can significantly lower mainframe TCO. However, without software to exploit the zIIP across multiple data and applications environments for Web services, SOA or data connectivity, its true potential cannot be realized. DataDirect Shadow is a single unified-platform, built exclusively for integration with IBM System z mainframes. It uses patent-pending technology to deliver broad exploitation of zIIP engines and enabling customers to deliver business systems that involve the System z platform in a timely manner and with a material reduction in overall TCO. DataDirect Shadow provides a new benchmark in mainframe integration, one that not only allows the mainframe to be a full participant within an SOA, but extends the value of the platform to business by enabling it take on new workloads with dramatically reduced costs.