With Business Integration, On-Demand Is in Demand
Companies insist on instant data gratification; EAI vendors take varied approaches
By Edward J. Correia
December 1, 2003 —
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On-demand is in demand. At least three integration software vendors have set their sights recently on the trend toward quick and seamless access to business data, regardless of the source. But the definition of on-demand varies by vendor.
Informatica Corp.'s latest solution for quickening data delivery is to throw more CPUs at the problem. "In essence, we're allowing you to take advantage of a farm of CPUs in a server grid," said Sanjay Poonen, Informatica's executive vice president of marketing of PowerCenter 7, its latest business integration solution that will become generally available early this month.
The software can divide its workload onto unused Linux, Unix or Windows computers on an enterprise network, Poonen claimed, as long as those computers are preloaded with the software. "Our server figures out which CPUs are available and uses their processors to run part of the integration process," he said. "Increasingly, IT people have less budget and resources and have to still get things done, and are looking for software providers to make their infrastructure more intelligent and adaptive so that as they upgrade or maintain systems, they have to do less to stitch together integrations." Pricing is calculated based on average annual CPU usage.
For InterSystems Corp., a relative newcomer to the EAI market, on-demand means reduced development cycles with simplified APIs. "We're seeing shorter and shorter attention spans and increased demand for quick results," said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems' vice president of strategic planning. "There's no patience for projects that run on for months and years."
InterSystems claims to solve this problem with Ensemble, described by Grabscheid as a simplified approach to EAI development. "We abstract [disparate] systems such as SAP, SQL Server, mainframe COBOL applications into a consistent format despite running on mainframe, Linux, Unix, Windows with different databases, languages and protocols. Within Ensemble they look exactly the same to the developer, because Ensemble presents the desired development technologies as .NET components, Java classes, EJBs, XML documents or Web services-whatever is natural or preferred by the developer."
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