The mainframe is the most popular super-server platform
in the world. Even today 70% of the world's information resides
in mainframe computers and much of this is in proprietary file
structures and non-relational databases. There are two main reasons
for this:
Existing legacy enterprise systems
represent a substantial and long-term capital
investment in essential enterprise information and electronic
commerce systems.
Enterprise systems are vital to business operations
and for a variety of reasons until recently were not easily
connected to, moved to, or duplicated on client-server systems
with available technologies.
Amongst other things, these systems handle levels
of security and scalability unmatched by any alternative system
and truly mission-critical computing relies on it. Due to the
advent of Internet/Web technology, there is a huge demand to breathe
life into old mission-critical systems by slipping Web front ends
over them and distributing processing power across a Web-centric
network. In addition, software distribution nightmares become
a thing of the past.
Web enabling mission critical tasks provide for the
following benefits:
Provide an integrated, consistent
presentation for all applications
Leverage existing applications and data
Ease of software distribution
Location transparent access to applications and
data
Flash InfoTech Software Limited offers 3 types of solutions
for helping its customers
leverage their enterprise systems:
Web-enabling of Legacy Applications
by providing:
Application access from the
browser
Data access from the browser
GUI front-ends to applications using screen
scrapers
Enterprise Application Integration using object
and component technology
Executive Information System based on legacy
data using Data Warehousing and Data Marts.
