Sybase has provided a glimpse into Ohio, its next-generation integration offering that allows business analysts to plan and manage integration efforts, minimising the support of expensive IT resources.
With Ohio, business analysts can deploy intuitive user interfaces to give CEOs the ability to consolidate worldwide sales and marketing information. Factory managers can receive notifications of delays in product schedules and customer support representatives can have access to current customer and product information.
Sybase previewed Ohio at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Fall 2002 conference in the US.
Gartner analyst Roy Schulte says: "Architects and developers spend an increasing amount of time and attention on the issues of building and maintaining the integration links among heterogeneous systems.
During the past six years, the management practices and design principles for application integration have evolved significantly. Mainstream businesses should leverage the lessons learned by the early adopters. Systematic integration strategies aim to reduce the time, costs and complexity of building connections among multiple application systems."
Ohio bridges the gap between "old" and "new" technology paradigms, automating the complex interactions between popular and legacy applications, J2EE components, Web services and human interfaces while focusing on business process optimisation and reducing costs. It is comprised of application integration, data transformation, business process management, Sybase's New Era of Network's patented business rules engine and a new, easy-to-use graphical user interface in a single operational unit.
"Today, enterprise connectivity through application integration is simply not enough," says Julie Tomlinson, sales and marketing manager at Sybase SA. "Businesses are demanding on-the-fly integration and analysis of critical business information in order to monitor real-time business performance and manage shifts in the market. Sybase provides an open, standards-based, flexible solution that allows companies to leverage investments to integrate internal and external Web services applications and provide businesses with the ability to analyse and act on information in real-time."
Through the adoption and use of this new solution, businesses can quickly and easily analyse and consolidate business information from multiple sources and optimise existing business processes and data. This data can then be distributed or redirected in a timely fashion to key personnel throughout the business, providing them with the most current information to help them make informed business decisions.
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