Sybase has entered into a global sales agreement with Diogenes, a software infrastructure provider for building mission-critical transaction delivery network (TDN) applications, to securely and reliably process transactions over the Internet and private networks.
In terms of the agreement, Sybase is able to resell the Diogenes Suite directly to its customers in conjunction with its own products.
With the Diogenes Suite, a solution comprised of programs that package, encrypt and deliver transaction data, organisations get secure software provisioning. This allows them to automate the distribution, installation and updating of all software required for connecting to tens, hundreds, or thousands of partners. This makes the deployment process secure, manageable and cost-effective.
Nick Warren, integration product manager of Sybase in South Africa, says in the past, companies predominantly used electronic data interchange (EDI) to transact with their multiple trading partners and branches in South Africa and globally. "Although most large companies today are still using the technology, it is ageing and almost falling away to enterprise application integration (EAI).
"There has been a huge debate around how to get suppliers and trading partners to interact with companies on a more uniform and secure basis, in an exceptionally fast way. There are also security issues, and the matter of authentication of data.
"Diogenes is reliable in terms of data integrity. If someone sends a packet from one store to another, it authenticates the data, and security and guaranteed delivery is 100%. It also validates the message, in case of hacking. If a packet is hacked, it will send a message saying it has been tampered with and ask the sender to resend the message. This guarantees that once the message reaches the partner, it is accurate."
The Diogenes Suite uses various levels of security, such as secure sockets layer (SSL) and public key interface (PKI). All information is transacted outside the firewall. iTunnel technology from Diogenes will, for example, pull only specific information requested on products or prices out of the database, send it back into iTunnel through the firewall and transfer it to the partner requesting it, says Isaacs.
He adds: "Although there are queuing packages similar to Diogenes, they can take years to implement. They may take three to five days to install at each partner, and if a company has 6 000 trading partners and stores, that is an incredibly long time. Diogenes is downloadable from the Internet and can be executed immediately."
Diogenes works only on the Internet, "making it exceptionally fast", and the technology runs on Java. It is compatible with any heterogeneous environment and is easy to deploy.
It is applicable to large companies with many trading partners and stores, particularly those in the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and banking industries, says Warren.
Diogenes' ability to automatically deploy, install, administer, and upgrade, without requiring manual interaction by an end user, enables affordable connectivity to small, technically less sophisticated trading partners. In addition, remote management and monitoring provides a single point of control and view of the entire distributed TDN application, including local and remote components for ease of management.
Customers wanting to implement large-scale application integration across multiple remote offices, departments or LANs can use Diogenes Suite in conjunction with Sybase's Business Process Integration Suite for Healthcare, and Integration Orchestrator, to rapidly and cost-effectively connect to trading partners online.
As application integration servers such as Sybase Integration Orchestrator require a guaranteed delivery transport product in order to connect to such applications, Diogenes Suite is available for purchase with Integration Orchestrator.
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