Surviving in a Web-Connected World
The need to connect with your customers, suppliers, and partners necessitates a change
to your business and IT environments. It’s time to integrate your non-Web-based, core business applications with the mainstream of the
Web-connected world. But you want to do so without disrupting or compromising on the key benefits that you receive from your current and
reliable applications.
The path to the Web doesn’t have to be complex, and it doesn’t have to involve overkill solutions with complex
programming languages and/or middleware. One strategy is to chose the path of “Webification”-putting an attractive front-end on your existing
applications. But is that sufficient?
The best of two worlds?
All over the world, mainframe and client/server based
core-business applications still run efficiently and reliably. Proponents of the platform have no desire to replace these applications with new ones
written in more complex languages, such as Java, or that run on other servers.
At the same time, users understand that these
applications need to be opened up and integrated with other applications across and beyond the enterprise, becoming part of the Web.
The
question is, how can they extend the usefulness and the life of the core applications while simultaneously giving these systems enriched
functionality and cross-organizational integration.
Special Considerations for System i Users
No set of users exists today
that is more loyal to their hardware platform and operating system than those who have built and maintained OS/400 applications on the IBM System
i. All over the world, these legacy, core-business applications still run efficiently and reliably. Proponents of the platform have no desire to
replace these applications with new ones written in more complex languages, such as Java, or that run on other servers.
At the same
time, users understand that these applications need to be modernized and integrated with other applications across the enterprise via the
Web.
The question is, how can they extend the life of the legacy OS/400 applications while simultaneously giving these systems enriched
functionality and cross-organizational integration.
Read about Magic Software’s solution for integrating your core business applications with a Web-connected world.
