HostBridge Technology

Founded in 2000, HostBridge is a privately-held enterprise software company that provides CICS integration, orchestration, modernization, and analytic software and services. For enterprises that use RPA with applications running on IBM z System mainframes, the HostBridge JavaScript Engine (HB.js) is a lightweight, federated RPA solution that runs on the mainframe and exploits System Z architecture. HB.js enables RPA scripts to interact with the mainframe in the most efficient way possible, avoiding inefficient, brittle screen-scraping methods to obtain legacy application data. Instead, RPA bots invoke mainframe applications via a simple HTTP request, accessing their logic through RESTful services. This approach increases performance while lowering the overhead of RPA-initiated mainframe activity.