Bridge Telerate in New York, one of the premier providers of market and business information, has chosen EntireX middleware from Software AG to make its real time data on Unix available to Windows NT workstations around the world.
Formerly Dow Jones Markets (DJM), Bridge Telerate constantly filters and sifts through market and business information from more than 2,000 sources, and then supplies the sorted data in real time to help investors, brokers and stock analysts in 160 countries, including South Africa, make securities trading decisions.
"Our clients expected us to come up with a solution that allows our data under Unix to be completely transparent for use in Excel under Windows NT," says Joe Persichetti, programme analyst of systems development at Bridge Telerate. "EntireX from Software AG was tailor-made for the job. This component middleware works exactly as we had envisioned, and that is actually pretty rare in the software industry."
"By implementing Entire, Bridge Telerate has enabled its several hundred clients to use their Windows NT machines to call up a so-called application component on the Unix server via EntireX," says Schalk Viljoen, Software AG business manager at SPL. SPL, part of JSE-listed Dimension Data Holdings, is the sole representative for Software AG`s products in South Africa.
"EntireX supports Microsoft`s DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model), which became a standard under Windows. In addition, Software AG has made DCOM available for Unix and mainframes."
Persichetti explains that this saved his company a great deal of time and money, because it only had to develop the application one single time for Unix. Because it meets the DCOM standard, it can be called up regardless of the platform," he says.
The pressure for companies today to lower costs while improving efficiency means that disparate systems and platforms must evolve together.
"EntireX makes this possible," says Viljoen. "The middleware integrates new, component-based applications, such as electronic business applications on the web, with existing systems that are often run on mainframes or Unix. It creates a consistent platform for applications spanning a variety of systems and multiple operating platforms."
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