Despite all the great benefits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), its important to use a systematic approach to integration to prevent getting bogged down in development efforts. This can save the organization from the need to write thousands of lines of code and prevent an IT backlog that would otherwise exacerbate the problems SharePoint is designed to solve. Having an automated way to deal with enterprise application integration is a step in the right direction. This white paper describes the advantages of using Magic Software's iBOLT business and process integration suite in achieving ROI from SharePoint and existing Enterprise ERP and CRM applications.

Even though computing power and development tools have improved over the years, IT projects continue to run over budget and over time. In particular, communication issues between the business and IT sides of enterprise teams is blurring the focus on project requirements that is leading to more project failures. Metadata application platforms such as Magic Software's uniPaaS offer a way of ensuring IT project success in today's business climate by facilitating greater collaboration between business and IT, enabling faster and easier application prototyping and shorter development cycles. 

Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise (Enterprise RIA) can convey multiple benefits upon a business, from lower cost of ownership, overall application availability and better security, to tremendous user experience. But these benefits come at a price: complexity and cost. For Enterprises and ISV’s looking for an efficient way of acquiring RIA-build capabilities there is now a new breed of end-to-end RIA platforms designed to overcome the limited scope of Client-side RIA platforms and the lack of deployment flexibility inherent in Cloud-based Platform-as-Service solutions.

Every business application has a total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) that is affected by the underlying technology and platform used for development and deployment. Read this white paper to find out how uniPaaS measures up to competing platforms and deployment methods.

With the rise of on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) from vendors such as Salesforce.com, any company can now cost-effectively obtain the same benefits of CRM as larger enterprises with bigger budgets and more employees. This white paper provides a strategy for maximizing the Salesforce.com investment through integration with a company’s on-site applications.

THINKstrategies’ Jeff Kaplan recommends that ISVs and enterprise software developers consider SaaS platforms which permit the greatest flexibility in addition to their scalability and security considerations.

Magic Software's uniPaaS is the industry's first RIA and SaaS-enabled Application Platform (SEAP) featuring a single development paradigm. Providing unique technical and business advantages over other application platform technologies and approaches, uniPaaS automatically handles all Client and Server partitioning and gives organizations the power to choose how they deploy their applications, whether Full Client or Web; on-premise or on-demand; software or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS); or global or local.
This white paper provides a detailed look at the elements at the heart of the single development paradigm including an overview of the architecture and principles of the various deployment modes supported.

Magic Software's new uniPaaS application platform can help businesses revitalize their competitive advantage and provides a clear path to profitable RIA and SaaS development and deployment. This positioning paper gives readers the top ten reasons to move to uniPaaS, including faster time to market, greater agility, better user experience, and significantly reduced total-cost-of-ownership.

 

As a result of proliferating contact information, address book integration is today at or near the top of the priority list for any IT department supporting JD Edwards. However, the common nature of this requirement may make it seem deceptively simple to achieve. This white paper reviews the reasons and advantages of address book integration, including the role of web 2.0, and presents the case for achieving rapid and cost-effective project completion using iBOLT for JD Edwards, Magic Software's code-free business integration suite.

Leading analysts predict that 60% of all software development projects will involve Rich Internet Applications (RIA) within three years. Clearly it’s no surprise that we’re using software applications more than ever before. As our demand for new capabilities and functions grows, our software becomes more sophisticated as developers strive to provide an adequate response to our business needs. How do we survive and perhaps even keep one step ahead in an environment of the ever-complex human – machine interface? This white paper shows how business application platforms have evolved and in particular the reasoning behind the rise of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) as part of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) phenomenon. The paper highlights the challenges of this new paradigm, and offers a strategy for achieving cost-effective and efficient RIA and SaaS development and deployment based upon a SaaS Enabled Application Platform (SEAP) approach.

With the rise of on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) from vendors such as Salesforce.com, any company can now cost-effectively obtain the same benefits of CRM as larger enterprises with bigger budgets and more employees. This white paper provides a strategy for maximizing the benefits of Salesforce.com via straightforward integration with a company’s on-site applications.

For many companies, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is proving to be an extremely attractive and efficient alternative to buying or building on-site, enterprise applications—especially where those applications are not industry-specific. One of the great barriers, however, to maximizing the value of SaaS applications is the challenge of integrating them with in-house applications, especially when real-time integration is necessary. This white paper presents a strategy for meeting that challenge with SOA-based integration solutions.

Keeping up with regulatory compliance and mandates that come from outside the organization threaten to consume significant resources from your organization, drawing your attention away from the projects and initiatives that you have defined as those that will increase your individual business advantage. However, deployment of a security plan, along with third-party tools and an effective development platform can dramatically decrease the time it takes to implement and maintain these compliance mandates, resulting in more resources available to devote to your core business.

Users of the System i need to bring their applications into the world around it—a world buzzing with Web-enablement, with the transfer of data between departments and customers and suppliers, with moves towards service-oriented architectures (SOA) that deliver business efficiency and agility, and with on-the-spot, real-time decision-making that business expects today. This can only happen with true Web integration—but what does that really mean, and how can it be achieved without adopting complex strategies that are expensive, risky, and resource-intensive? This white paper presents a solution.

iBOLT Special Edition for SAP Business One extends the capabilities and usability of SAP Business One, making it a central piece of a composite application, spanning the entire company. It is highly scalable - both from a technical and commercial point of view and can add significant value to SAP Business One customer.

When correctly implemented, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises to reuse existing applications in new ways, thereby leverage a company’s investment in disparate legacy applications. This white paper reveals the seven best practice tips to ensure the re-engineering of your enterprise with minimal risk and maximum cost-effectiveness using the iBOLT business integration platform.

System i users have a lot invested in their OS/400 applications, but they know they need to modernize these applications and to meet new business demands and to integrate with other applications across the enterprise. This white paper presents a pragmatic approach for accomplishing this, without the need to implement complex technologies or programming languages, keeping the System i as the platform of choice for legacy and new business applications.

Companies continue to use JD Edwards because the system works and remains reliable year after year. But as companies introduce newer software platforms over time, and with the shift towards the web, mobile devices and graphical user interfaces, the pressure to enhance how JD Edwards interacts with other systems and processes is greater than ever before. This white paper introduces and defines the main capabilities of Magic Software’s iBOLT JDE Connect, a business integration suite that allows companies to integrate applications within the unique environment of JD Edwards, without the need for expensive and time-consuming computer coding.