Extend
Enterprise Applications to Partner Applications
Extensio Extender for Applications extends data within
enterprise application to other applications. With Extensio,
data residing in one application can be extracted, transformed
and loaded into with partner applications in a seamless manner.
Extensio enables data movement between applications on-demand
or at pre-defined time intervals.
Why
Extend Enterprise Applications to Partner Applications
No application is an island. Typically, applications
handle part of a business process and culminate with either
a human or another recipient application at the other end.
Some business processes extend beyond the physical boundaries
of the business and culminate in partner enterprises.
To support business processes that span across applications
and business boundaries, data needs to travel between
applications and across firewalls. When recipient and
partner applications cannot connect with each others,
users are forced to
- Manually
move data from one application to another, causing errors
and loss of productivity
- Manually
transform application semantics from one application to
another
- Operate
such manual data transfers by deploying expensive manpower
Benefits of Extending Enterprise Applications
to Partner Applications
Extensio automates enterprise data transfer from supported
applications to other supported applications. Built using
a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based Extensio Server,
Extensio Application Extenders provide the following benefits:
- Automates
data transfer process between two or more application
- Extracts,
transforms and loads data from one application to another
- Requires
no manual intervention
With Extensio, users can ensure data transfer between applications
in a automated and seamless manner.
Who Benefits from the Extensio Extender
for Applications?
Extensio connects enterprise applications to other applications,
enabling the business to have one unified view of the data.
Changes from one applications are reflected in downstream
and upstream applications automatically, with no manual intervention.
Some examples of applications that benefit from Extensio Application
Extenders are:
- Downstream
applications of ERP applications such as Optimization Applications
and SCM applications
- Partner
applications at dealer and supplier businesses that need
enterprise data
Key Features of the Extensio Extender
for Applications
The Extensio Extender for Applications is a built using Java
based APIs that works with most enterprise applications and
databases.
Some of the key features include:
- Supports
event driven and periodic data transfer
- Can
connect to multiple types of data sources and sinks including
SAP R/3, J D Edwards, databases, flat files, e-mail data
sources, Excel files, XML files and web services.
- Support
for normalized and canonical transforms
- Can
connect across firewalls
- Maintains
record level and transfer session level logs
Deploying Extensio Extender for Applications
Customer's IT department uses the SOA-based Extensio
Information Server and its browser-based Extensio Studio
to build
information services that connect the target applications
to the
enterprise data-sources, extract appropriate data, assemble
them using transform, filter or other custom operations and
deliver them as per the user requirements.
Once Extensio Information Services have been built for Applications,
the same information can be directly delivered on multiple user channels such as Desktop Gadgets, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Outlook, Web Widgets, Web Services and Mobile
devices.
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