Linking two of its most innovative software solutions - SOA Gateway and CaptainCasa - at a successful launch, Bateleur Software has shown how either independently or together, these are two very complementary products for service-orientated architecture (SOA) and Web-enabling of new and old applications.
As our fiscal crisis worsens, companies are cutting back and looking for better efficiency and performance. SOA Gateway is a new technology that dramatically cuts months off application modernisation, removing anywhere from 70% to 90% of the effort and risk associated with traditional integration projects irrespective of the chosen architecture.
CaptainCasa Enterprise Client is a fast, robust solution for building great looking, fast performing, interactive user interfaces for frequently and heavily used application front-ends. It is a rich client technology solution: the user interface of an application is running on the front-end client, the application logic is running on the back-end side.
Together, these two applications make something “absolutely stunning”, said Bateleur's chairman, Sam Selmer-Olsen. “It is quick and straight-forward - like it's back to the old days.
“The essence of SOA Gateway is to give a company's architecture a high level of flexibility, because things change so rapidly in the information age,” continued Selmer-Olsen. “Businesses are starting to move away from legacy applications and the Gateway negates the need to rip and replace such systems. Benefits include 90% less custom code, no need for messaging middleware, no custom server logic, no software installation on client system, and the use of standard SSL security to protect the data.
"Of course, improving and integrating your back-end solutions is pointless if you do not provide a solution for frequently or heavily used front-ends. This is where CaptainCasa comes in as a rich client framework for improving the client's front-end - covering scenarios from interactive data input/output up to touch-screen user interfaces with subsystem integration.
"CaptainCasa has excellent operational speed, 24/7 robustness, a simple and standard-based development model and a community-based market concept - it is also useful to software as a service users."
CaptainCasa CEO, Bj"orn M"uller, was very excited about how well the two products match. "SOA Gateway is an excellent environment for accessing legacy applications via Web services," he said. "It directly runs on the legacy system's hardware and exposes the functions of the legacy system as standard Web services.
"CaptainCasa is a generic, Java-based client, that is connected to the back-end by using http(s). Java likes Web services, so it easily accesses any Web service, eg, the ones of SOA Gateway. Because CaptainCasa and SOA Gateway are technology partners, we make sure that Web services, exposed by SOA Gateway, can be transferred into user interfaces in a smart way."
This enthusiasm was shared by Risaris CEO John Power. SOA Gateway was developed by Risaris, in Ireland, to enable organisations to unleash the power of their legacy data and information across multiple platforms. Power further explained: "Existing ways to make legacy systems available is cumbersome, costly and time-consuming. The SOA Gateway quickly makes these assets available in a standard way such that CaptainCasa can then easily build rich client GUIs for the systems.
"The solutions complement each other very well - without CaptainCasa, the SOA Gateway can't expose these assets with a rich client interface, and without the SOA Gateway, CaptainCasa would have great difficulty getting to these assets."
Both these solutions are ideal in a South African context, with our limited and slow bandwidth, and are a cost-efficient, quick, high-performance solution that reduces infrastructure requirements and dramatically helps a company survive the current economic pinch.
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