Sybase SA has announced several major enhancements to its e-business platform, offering large and medium-sized enterprises a complete software infrastructure for e-business.
The new components simplify access to information, accelerate integration of applications and business processes, and automate transactions, maximising the value of an organisation's information assets. The platform supports customer needs with an open architecture that works with existing environments - databases, application servers, and development tools from other vendors - and supports a wide range of established and emerging industry standards, such as ebXML (electronic business XML), RosettaNet, and EDI.
"While few organisations set out to purchase an e-business platform outright, most want to ensure that the technology they are purchasing to solve a tactical problem is part of a complete, strategic solution," says Sybase SA marketing manager, Julie Tomlinson.
"Sybase meets those customer needs by offering a software infrastructure that is open, modular, integrated, and comprehensive. Organisations can buy Sybase products as their needs dictate and be assured that they will build upon each other and integrate with existing and future IT components."
The new components of the e-business platform are:
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Business Process Integrator Suite 2.1
- a new bundle of six Sybase and New Era of Networks products that enables organisations to integrate, automate, and manage business interactions outside the boundaries of the enterprise to partners and customers.
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PowerDesigner 9.0
- an updated version of Sybase's design tool, with a graphically-rich interface that enables business users and IT teams to model and develop e-business applications more effectively.
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Enterprise Portal (EP) 2.5
- an updated version of Sybase's flagship portal product, offering secure and personalised access to enterprise information.
Sybase's e-business platform simplifies access to the enterprise for customers, employees and suppliers via a personalised and secure enterprise portal, including mobile and wireless access. Sybase EP 2.5 improves business interactions by offering common access to content and Web-enabled applications, thus allowing for increased operational efficiencies, customer loyalty and revenues, as well as a reduction in costs. New features of EP 2.5 include advanced integration technology, security enhancements to address strict requirements in the government sector, XML content integration and Web services integration to support E2E (exchange-to-exchange) interactions, and multi-platform support for HP and IBM AIX.
Says Tomlinson: "Tying disparate applications together in real-time can be the stumbling block to reaping the economies of scale promised by e-business. Sybase's e-business platform BPI Suite addresses this challenge and integrates its source systems without any customised code."
The platform accelerates the integration of critical enterprise information and applications via integration, process automation, and adapter facilities including the New Era of Networks Process Server, e-Biz Integrator, BizTracker, XML Adapter and Sybase Web Services Integrator - all included as a part of the Sybase BPI Suite.
The BPI Suite is a complete offering of products for process integration and process management with broad standards support including WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, RosettaNet and ebXML.
"It accelerates the integration of data and applications that span the value chain, thereby enabling enterprises to improve business processes that extend outside their boundaries," notes Tomlinson. "The result is greater responsiveness to new market opportunities and increased operational efficiencies."
The platform also facilitates the automation of e-business transactions through application server, data storage and data movement services. Sybase's EAServer is available as a stand-alone product and also as part of Sybase's BPI Suite. As part of the BPI Suite, EAServer provides an application server foundation that supports complex, end-to-end processes. The BPI Suite provides application development and Web deployment capabilities that automate the transaction and business processes of the enterprise, key customers and critical suppliers, resulting in reduced supply chain costs and increased revenue and customer retention.
Tomlinson says the e-business platform is engineered to be easy to deploy and use, with a common set of tools for optimal development and management of e-business information and applications, including PowerDesigner 9.0.
"By offering a broad software infrastructure that is open, modular, and integrated - based on established, proven products - Sybase offers a solution that focuses on customers' business needs rather than a proprietary architecture," she concludes.
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