Large organizations typically use legacy platforms for mission-critical data and applications. To extend the abilities of the enterprise portal offering, ApplinX steps in and provides highly efficient and reliable business objects or web services encapsulation from legacy environments.
The Challenge
Modern working environments include a large number of applications and data sources, residing on various platforms. As a result, user tasks become time-consuming, inefficient, and complicated. Enterprise portals address this problem by adopting a more streamlined approach using task-oriented and role-based unified working environment that integrates the needed data and transactions, usually over a web interface. By deploying an enterprise portal organizations benefit from efficiency in workflow, time savings, support for decision-making, and collaboration of intra-organization data exchange.
The portal enables unification of the various computing environments and applications, and provides tools for collaboration by leveraging data sources and applications to create personalized information and role-based views.
Typically, a large amount of the organization's mission-critical data and transactions reside on heterogeneous legacy platforms such as Mainframe computers, IBM iSeries (AS/400) hosts, and Unix servers. Integrating these transactions into a portal environment is not a trivial task, since it involves overcoming difficulties such as non-deterministic host behavior, need for human intervention, and knowledge of the application structure. Handling these issues in the new development project might result in a time-consuming complex effort.
Applinx Solution
ApplinX addresses this challenge in the most efficient, robust, and reliable approach. Using ApplinX, legacy transactions can be encapsulated into standard programmatic components in various modern standards such as Web Services, COM, .NET, or J2EE. These business objects and web services act as building blocks for the new portal environment, enabling easy leveraging of legacy based services in standard ways. The result is a flexible and robust architecture that integrates the legacy-based services seamlessly into the portal application.
ApplinX overcomes the obstacles of the legacy application operational behavior by using smart and flexible navigation definitions that are based on context-based rules. Navigation is managed and operated by the ApplinX Server, resulting in a highly efficient and reliable basis for services extension.
By using ApplinX, the organization gains maximum flexibility in strategic legacy integration, and unity in the broad range of integration needs.
Maximum efficiency in resources usage and response times is achieved by utilizing ApplinX Host Services definitions. These definitions enable the service to hold a pool of connections to the needed transactions, with pool size flexibility rules and recovery procedures.
Benefits
ApplinX provides any portal environment a standard, efficient, and reliable ability to encapsulate legacy processes into web services and business objects. ApplinX also serves as an operation environment for these web services, separating the new application layer from its sources in a highly modular and robust approach, and thus rendering the portal offering more comprehensive.
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ApplinX bridges the technological gaps for legacy-to-portal integration by enabling standardization of legacy based services and transactions as web services and business objects. As the legacy environments serve the organization for mission-critical data and applications, ApplinX enables the enterprise portal to provide a more complete end-to-end solution.
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