Today's businesses face the challenge of having to adapt and change within dynamic markets and environments, often necessitating a costly new IT solution to cope with these demands.
This results in the requirement for integration between legacy systems and new applications or systems by third-party vendors. CommerceQuest SA is now able to deliver Jacada's range of integration and Web-to-host solutions that solves the problem of having to invest in a costly new system by rather leveraging existing investments and integrating or adapting to the new.
Jacada's range of solutions includes Jacada Integrator, Interface Server, Terminal Emulator and Studio for iSeries, providing cohesiveness with flexibility.
Says Alex Steyn, managing director at CommerceQuest SA: "Integration is a key issue for businesses that need to control the costs of employing new technology without rendering legacy systems as 'silo' or redundant. It is also a misconception that legacy equates to a solution that is a few years old. A legacy application is any application that was implemented yesterday. Integration provides the ability to drive businesses forward by using existing information and in new and competitive ways."
Jacada Integrator is a solution that provides non-intrusive and direct transaction access to almost any type of legacy system. It supports services and application programming interfaces (API) providing integration with client-side applications, portals, application servers or middleware solutions. For example, in a call centre environment in the insurance industry, Jacada Integrator is able to allow call centre agents to access policy information that is pertinent to the client from their consol. This reduces costs and increases productivity.
Jacada Integrator also includes MapMaker, a graphical flow designer and recorder for creating visual maps of your legacy application flow and the Thin Client Integrator automatically generates Java Server Pages (JSP) and application service provider (ASP) thin clients and is easily deployed onto a Web-server environment.
Jacada Interface Server is a Web-to-host solution that provides a thin client graphical user interface for legacy host systems. Ease of use is a fundamental requirement for businesses and this solution delivers exactly that in a thin client environment.
In a nutshell, it Web-enables business systems and provides remote access for authorised users. Mainframe and iSeries (AS400) environments enjoy the same benefits of Interface Server. Built in scalability and load-balancing capabilities provide a match for high throughput. The graphical interface in Java or XHTML ensures ease of future integration with new application development environments such as J2EE and .NET application servers.
Jacada Terminal Emulator is a full-featured terminal emulation solution that enables browser-based access to your legacy applications. Its quick and easy deployment means the delivery of browser-based access to legacy applications is completed within a few minutes. A two-tier Java applet eliminates the need for a gateway server or host-installed software.
Jacada Studio for iSeries, allows you to develop and deploy Java and HTML graphical applications specifically for IBM's mid-range servers. Leveraging Rapid Programming Generation (RPG) and COBOL language skills, Jacada Studio for iSeries allows businesses to write graphical and web-based applications as you would write green-screen programmes and create graphical clients without the requirement for Java or HTML skills.
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