Functional Overview – Integration Software
IBS INTEGRATOR offers your company an IT solution that simplifies the complexities of system integration, data management and replication, and process synchronization. Gain access to all of the data that you need to drive your business processes.
IBS INTEGRATOR is a powerful stand-alone tool for systems integration, data management, data replication and synchronization. It provides significant benefits to customers in terms of delivering value and fast ROI. The solution's architecture and technology are designed to be open and flexible. This makes it possible to interact with all servers and databases in a network, start programs, act on events and do message switching, as well as connect to the Internet, read HTML pages and communicate using XML or any other format.
IBS INTEGRATOR is a comprehensive development product with a visual script language that has more than 250 powerful functions. The solution is easy to install, set up and use. Its user-friendly features make it easy for developers and less experienced users to quickly achieve results and solve problems. The solution gives you enormous possibilities to improve the IT structure of your business, automate information flow and start collaborating with suppliers, partners and customers in a totally new and efficient way.
Advanced data management functions
IBS INTEGRATOR connects to all popular databases with a high speed to efficiently handle high-volume transaction environments. By using the solution's advanced data management functions, you can update and synchronize data between various kinds of databases and platforms. At the same time, it enables you to solve issues requiring data conversion, translating codes and data formats. In addition, you can use IBS INTEGRATOR to create and populate new databases, read data from several different databases simultaneously, look up complementary information from a database, insert the data into another database, and much more.
- Automate and optimize business processes and routines
- Communicate with internal departments, suppliers, customers and business partners
- Create SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) solutions with web services
- Read and update data from any system or application
- Read, create and convert text data from XML, MS Excel or any other format
- Replicate and convert data between all known databases
The solution's data management capabilities offer you the following robust wizards and functions:
- Advanced string handling and data manipulation
- Automatic format and date conversions
- Commit roll-back
- Creation and listing of files and directories
- Data transfer and add/update/delete direct
- Regular expressions
- Text file handling
- Visual mapping
- Visual Query Builder
- Zip files
Internet functionality
IBS INTEGRATOR is based on utilizing the internet, intranet or extranet efficiently and has powerful functions that let you:
- Communicate with SOAP sites
- Decrypt email
- Obtain Telnet support
- Retrieve HTML files from the Internet and pick out information
- Send and receive files with FTP or any other FTP command
- Send, receive and read email with attachments
- Start scripts from a browser
- Use message server functions
Web services and XML
You can improve and automate the important business processes internally and externally with your customers, suppliers and partners. The solution has extensive functions that connect business systems or legacy systems. With IBS INTEGRATOR, you are not dependent on only one data format. The solution can handle different formats for incoming transactions such as orders and deliveries from your suppliers and can also send information in almost any format. IBS INTEGRATOR's full support of XML and XSL can help you streamline the development and implementation of web services for your applications.
Communicator queues and IBS INTEGRATOR network
The Web Administration tool and Communicator, which come with IBS INTEGRATOR, make it possible for you to set up an IBS INTEGRATOR network. The network will enable you to configure a transaction and message switching system to safely communicate, transfer transactions and synchronize processes and databases worldwide. Such an IBS INTEGRATOR network can involve several companies and partners and include different machines or servers, business systems and databases. The IBS INTEGRATOR network can be configured, executed and controlled remotely from one single point just by using your normal browser.
Excel
The possibilities to manipulate the data the way you want them in Excel are almost endless. You can use the functionality in Excel to calculate or simulate data and then update your legacy system with the result. IBS INTEGRATOR offers you a new and effective way to access your back-office system or legacy system, select information from any database, complement and aggregate the information and load it into your Excel model or into a new Excel workbook.
MQSeries
IBM's MQSeries is a commonly used integration vehicle in larger companies. IBS INTEGRATOR enables you to connect with MQSeries to read and write information. A full range of functions and statements, similar to those for Communicator queues, are available to use.
eSite or servlets
eSite is a web development tool that makes it extremely easy to create web applications with access to any databases and information in a company. eSite is one of the products in the IBS INTEGRATOR Enterprise version and is fully integrated with IBS INTEGRATOR and Communicator. The functionality of eSite is provided from inside IBS INTEGRATOR through the category named eSite.
You can use any web design tool like Microsoft FrontPage to lay out your web pages and customize them, or just write HTML code directly in eSite. In addition, eSite can be used as a Web Search and Display reporting tool to make any information available through a simple web browser. eSite can also be used in more complex solutions to compose information from different databases, sources and platforms, present it to users and then handle updates and changes.
iSeries or AS/400
IBS INTEGRATOR's powerful extended support for iSeries makes implementations for this platform easy and efficient. In IBS INTEGRATOR, you can set up and handle Data Areas and Data Queues, read spooled files and execute programs and commands. A full API in RPG allows you to interface with Communicator queues directly from an application or program. You can implement IBS INTEGRATOR directly on the iSeries.
Crypto
Security is critical in a global and open business world. IBS INTEGRATOR contains all the encryption techniques needed for safe and sure communication. IBS INTEGRATOR's built-in encryption functionality is easy to use, and you can choose the crypto technique that best fits your purpose.
Java classes
IBS INTEGRATOR is object-oriented and you have full access to the Java libraries and components you either received with Java or have developed yourself. In IBS INTEGRATOR's Design Studio, you can toggle between the script language and Java. In the Java user interface you can continue to develop further functionality and use Java classes, self-developed components and business logic.
Local and fast access to iSeries files, data queues, programs, spool files etc. IBS INTEGRATOR is compiled to native code on the iSeries for optimal performance. IBS ENTERPRISE can call IBS INTEGRATOR and vice versa.
Lotus Notes/Domino
IBS INTEGRATOR has a special group of statements for accessing Lotus Notes/Domino and supports:
- Adding of response documents
- Adding, updating and deleting of Lotus Notes documents
- Lotus Notes email
- Query of any Lotus Domino database
- Rich text fields
- Running Lotus Notes Agents
Logging and debugging
The solution includes extensive logging and failure support, which is especially useful for notification during overnight data replication. IBS INTEGRATOR's notification functionality can send an email, update a Lotus Notes database and information on a web server, write records to a database or perform anything else you program into an IBS INTEGRATOR script.
What IBS INTEGRATOR can mean for you
IBS INTEGRATOR can help your company make complete use of all data to streamline processes and decision-making. This access to a fully integrated system can help you to increase revenues, develop stronger relationships with customers, reduce operating costs and gain first-to-market advantages.
IBS INTEGRATOR has proven its productivity in more than 500 installations in 13 countries.
Integration Application Areas
- B2B synchronization
- 'Best-of breed' implementation
- Convert data when implementing new business systems
- Create and maintain databases in Datawarehouse applications
- e-business development and integration
- Refine customer information in CRM applications
- Synchronise business processes with a Supply Chain approach
- Systems integration
- Workflow integration with legacy systems
Database support
IBS INTEGRATOR includes native drivers for the largest databases and platforms.
Native support:
- DB2 (all platforms)
- iSeries
- Lotus Notes/Domino
- MS Excel
- Oracle (Unix, NT, S/390, XP)
- SQL Server (NT, XP)
- Sybase (Unix, NT, XP)
ODBC, JDBC or OLEDB support:
- Access
- Approach
- Informix
- Ingress
- Paradox
- Progress
- Text files
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