System Software Associates (SSA) has announced the availability of the dcServ suite of products for BPCS Client/Server. It is a solution for automated collection of data, providing improved opportunities for the complete integration of the flow of information between customers and suppliers throughout the supply chain. Availability of the dcServ suite is proof of the capability of SSA`s Distributed Object Computing Architecture (DOCA), providing a CORBA-compliant, plug and play, business application linking system, says Reg Mitchell, country manager for SSA SA. "dcServ provides a common infrastructure for easy connectivity that eliminates the need for custom coding." Industry analysts estimate that between 35% and 60% of a company`s development time is spent simply connecting complementary applications to their ERP system - a problem that dcServ helps eliminate. "Our clients now have the advantage of having an enterprise management system complete with a distributed object computing infrastructure for capturing data from the plant floor throughout the enterprise," adds Mitchell, country manager for SSA SA. The dcServ suite comes preprogrammed for total and instantaneous connectivity, providing integration to the BPCS Client/Server Inventory Management and Shop Floor Control products. The dcServ technology makes full use of BPCS Client/Server semantic message gateway (SMG) technology and is backward-compatible with many earlier BPCS releases. It implements quickly, requires no new programming, and is unaffected by the workload of other systems on a network. Some 30 SSA clients are implementing dcServ for realtime data capture in over 50 sites, reports Mitchell. Several larger companies are using the system`s intelligent data transformation and flow-control capabilities to implement dcServ as the key collector of source data for their manufacturing network. "The ability to seamlessly integrate a wide variety of data-capture systems to BPCS Client/Server allows our clients to receive mission-critical information from the plant floor immediately," adds Mitchell. "Data capture is only the first in a line of complementary applications that we envision. "The ease of connectivity we achieve with dcServ infrastructure fits nicely with our commitment to provide FASTresults to clients," Mitchell elaborates. "Today, efficient connectivity is imperative in the global time-based competitive market. With the pace of change already fast and furious, short implementation cycles are critical. The configurability and reconfigurability of the product, once implemented, is also key as a companies demands continue to change."
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