Application Connectivity
Are you struggling with multiple applications in
your enterprise? Is your data fragmented over many databases and transaction
systems? Do you need a way to work with all of your data as an integrated
whole, rather than as chunks of information stored in specific products by
specific vendors?
If you're like most customers your IT environment can
appear pretty "eclectic". You have legacy systems and applications that are
still the workhorse of your company and you have new technology that you hope
will bring you improved performance, productivity and reduced cost of ownership.
How do you get these systems to work with one another? How do you build new
distributed computing solutions? How do you gain a business advantage through
a 3-tier client/server approach to enterprise applications? The answer is
middleware products combined with First Step's Application
Connectivity Services.
You have several middleware options to choose from
depending on the type of business solution you are developing. Among the options are:
Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM)
Distributed Transaction Processing (DTP)
Object Request Broker (ORB)
COM/DCOM
These technologies facilitate the development of new
distributed computing solutions as well as integration with existing applications
by providing a development and runtime infrastructure that is operating system and
network independent. But which technology do you choose? How do you design systems
and applications that can take advantage of middleware technology? How can you build
distributed solutions that won't bring your network to its knees?
Application Connectivity Services
Our Application Connectivity services will help answer those questions and ease your
concerns. Our services can assist you with the integration of existing legacy
applications and systems with new technology using object techniques and middleware.
This means that new and existing applications anywhere on the network can work together
seamlessly - interoperating and exchanging data.
The components of this solution include:
- Assessment and Planning
- Business Case Development
- Prototype Implementation
- Technology and Knowledge Transfer
- Product Implementation and Deployment
Benefits
How can the combination of middleware and our Application Connectivity services
help you? By enabling you:
- To reduce the cost, time, and complexity of implementing distributed client/server
applications by eliminating custom integration code at the operating system and network levels;
- To allow application services and components -- implemented in different applications
and across different platforms -- to transparently invoke, control, and interact with each other;
- To isolate clients and servers from changes in network topology and software versions;
- To encapsulate existing (legacy) applications and data, without modifying source code, thus
facilitating the integration of existing applications into new client/server architectures;
- To evolve toward an object-oriented software development approach that enhances reusability
of existing software and simplifies the integration of new software.
