Business Process and Application Integration

Integrating the applications, processes, systems, and databases that drive your business

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Companies often have different business applications built over time in different languages, that use different technologies, run on different hardware platforms and operating systems with inconsistent user interfaces. The result is isolated functionality, multiple instances of the same data, redundant manual activities, higher costs and inefficient responses to your customers. And there is an increasing need for business-to-business integration with your trading partners and other companies inside and outside the boundaries of your enterprise.

Application integration means many things to many people. Whether it is SOA, EAI, BPI, Web services or exchanging data in different formats, your company has probably identified a business requirement for applications to work together. Just as employees have to work together to meet business goals, your applications need to do the same. From code-free BPI for business analysts to flexible customized applications and productive middleware, LANSA has the tools you need to integrate the disparate applications, processes and databases that drive your business.

Benefits of business process and application integration

Effective application integration can provide your organization with the following important business benefits:

Introduce new applications and technologies more efficiently and at a lower cost
More easily modify and automate business processes to meet new needs
Provide more delivery channels for your organization
Replacing batch processing with real-time communication
Linking back-office and ERP systems to new applications like CRM
Sharing data between System i, Windows and Web applications via EDI, XML or Web services
Integrate with Java applications from a legacy system

LANSA Composer – code-free business process automation

Every business is under pressure to automate manual processes, better integrate internal systems and securely share data with external parties. But until now, only large companies could afford the cost and complexity of Business Process Integration software. LANSA offers a unique BPI solution designed and packaged for any size of business. We guarantee that if you can click then you can connect!

LANSA Composer is a highly visual and code-free tool that is intended to be used by business analysts to design and implement solutions to integration problems. Without writing any program code, LANSA Composer allows you to automate manual processes, eliminate rekeying of data and reduce the amount of human interaction required to complete any given business process.

LANSA Integrator – any data, any format, any protocol, any platform

If you need the ultimate flexibility to build highly-customized applications that include business-to-business integration and application integration tasks, LANSA Integrator is the product for you! Data and application integration across diverse platforms typically requires developers skilled with complex technologies like XML and Java.

LANSA Integrator eliminates the need for your programming staff to learn these complex technologies and provides a productive environment for data integration between diverse platforms and applications. It hides the technical aspects of integration tasks and provides the ultimate flexibility to incorporate those tasks into your LANSA, C, RPG and COBOL applications, in whatever way is required. LANSA Integrator also offers wizard-based Web service development to consume external or internal Web services or expose existing code as a Web service.

LANSA Open for .NET – productive fast and secure middleware

A major challenge in successfully integrating Windows client applications with System i (iSeries and AS/400) systems is achieving fast client-to-server transaction times. The high productivity engines of many client tools require an ODBC/JDBC driver. But these drivers do not deliver the speed of native record-level access. LANSA's open middleware provides superfast performance. You can focus on user requirements and leave client/server complexity to LANSA.

LANSA Open for .NET will open up the productivity and discipline of the LANSA Metadata Repository to .NET Framework developers. Shipped as a small and standardized .NET class library, it allows .NET applications to easily access data residing on System i and Windows servers.

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With LANSA Integrator we can use best of breed systems in the back office, the graphics department and on sales reps laptops and integrate them all seamlessly. LANSA's easy business process integration lets us quickly grasp business opportunities and provide a better service to the customer.

Gunter Gheysens, IT development manager at Truvo Belgium

With LANSA Integrator we have the flexibility to accept and send business transactions in a variety of formats, using many different communication methods. We can handle our big customers who prefer traditional EDI, but we can also handle our smaller customers who prefer to send their orders in XML, CSV or even in Excel spreadsheet format.

Dave Hansford, IT Manager at Barrus

From an IT point of view, the LANSA Integrator solution is very smooth. We don't have any synchronization issues, because there is no data replication. We didn't have to modify or recompile any of the programs of our core ERP system.

Diane Muller, Information Systems Manager at Crowley Foods

LANSA Integrator lets us access Java-based solutions directly from our Synon, RPG and LANSA applications. LANSA fits in our layered platform approach that allows for scalability. We have our iSeries (AS/400) and LANSA based eBusiness systems at the top. Beneath that we have Linux machines that contain book cover images, publications and other rich content that is likely to rapidly increase in volume as the nature of publication evolves. LANSA Integrator seamlessly joins our iSeries (AS/400) business system together with whatever box we may be using for our publications and rich content.

Richard Ciechanowski, Manager Information Technology at John Wiley Australia

LANSA Integrator lets us tightly integrate systems but have them loosely coupled. Where available, we prefer packaged solutions above in-house development. Easy integration lets us pick the best available solution. We can replace any of our systems without worrying about the impact on other systems.

Peter Boertjes, Development Manager at The Greenery

With LANSA Integrator, and MQ Series as a transport mechanism, we built an XML plug-in connection engine that allows us to communicate to anything out there, without having to change our existing business systems. We call it the Apria Commerce Engine or ACE. It is a really neat process. LANSA Integrator allows us to implement new XML formats without having to reconstruct our backend business applications. LANSA Integrator also helps us to leverage the Java and WebSphere technologies. And we can add transactions types gradually. We just make new transaction types known to ACE and we're done. ACE will parse the XML transactions into the business systems that already exist.

Kevin McLatchie, Manager IS technology & Planning at Apria Healthcare