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Developing web server processes to front end your Enterprise applications.
What have you deployed on the WEB? Management Information System departments are faced the ever increasing pressures to implement applications that are exposed to the Internet. Deployment of textual web pages with flaming wheels of fire and exploding rockets with animated gifs jumping around the page will certainly get the attention of some. As one well know IBM AD presented was an executive that simply stated: "what would be nice is , if we could enter an order online" and the young developer looked puzzled.
Is the goal to flood the user with information or to open up a bi-directional dialog with the user? As anyone who spends time on the web knows, the internet has become a huge market for advertising. Pop up windows, browser upon browser all showing something you just can't do without or so they say. This is all too common, some is even good, most is just an annoyance. The real need is to integrate current information systems with 80+ million potential customers.
How can user dialog be integrated with existing Information Systems? Probably the most rapid growing use of the internet is to actually conduct business. What this requires is security, a user dialog where information can be displayed to the end user and means to gathered information from the end user. What is typically missing is how is this information then integrated with existing information Data repositories.
A significant decision has to be made by MIS Departments. Is it easier teach someone who knows how to made Buttons and Flaming Wheels spin how the business works or is it better to teach someone who knows the business how to a paint button and make a list box. Decisions need to be made on what information will be accessible and then in what form should this information be presented to the public and finally how will information gather from the users by integrated and saved in existing.
The are many approaches in the successfully deploying web applications.
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It is IEG's experience that development of web applications should be done at the application level, instead of developing a layer of separate processes at the web server. LINC itself can be used to develop these new processes to be used by web users. Development in LINC can include: security, simplified form layouts and logic or process and update information in the database. Using Interface Builder (IB), new or existing LINC ISPECS can generated directly into GUI WEB deployable forms and used by Unisys' WebAgent and ActiveLINC products. There are several significant benefits of this approach. First, any information gather by the web front end forms is already integrated with existing applications. The continues to be a single source of maintenance so if either the enterprise system or the web processes change, the change is made in the same place. Finally, it is more cost effective to use existing skill resources that already knowledge of the business process.
IEG invites your to review the features of our INTERFACE BUILDER. More information can be found at our web site: http://www.ieg-inc.com/ie-webs/index.html.
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