Business Process Integration (BPI)

If organisations are to achieve the true business value that the Internet promises, the systems behind the Web front-end must be fully integrated with established business processes. Compuware solutions enable the automated integration of these supportive systems and processes, enabling organisations to create a renewed internet-enabled supply chain.

Web Enablement and Custom Application Integration

To create an e-business platform that delivers true business value, you need an environment that unites web, client/server and legacy resources, blending a range of web servers, middle-tier application servers, host applications, databases and packages.

Compuware can provide integration at the data and application levels with UNIFACE, a component-based development and integration framework. UNIFACE facilitates simultaneous and transparent access to heterogeneous data sources and the extension of existing legacy applications with new web-enabled front ends.

UNIFACE provides a graphical assembly workbench that enables components to be treated as technology-independent black-boxes. The results is that developers work at a high level of abstraction and do not need to master the complexities of web technology and because UNIFACE takes care of low-level implementation details, quality, productivity and delivery cycles improve spectacularly.

Compuware's Xpediter products help you to extend your mainframe applications to the Internet by assisting in the analysis of legacy code and data flow and enabling the splitting of source code, so that corporate business logic remains on the mainframe.

When building an e-business application, legacy data must be migrated to the e-business environment. File-AID shortens the development of data migrations and interfaces, with the power and scalability to perform complex conversions between legacy and relational data. File-AID also provides high performance data transformations necessary for legacy application renewal.

Packaged Application Integration

Packaged applications can be an indispensable competitive tool, supporting business-critical processes, enabling expansion into new markets, generating new methods of doing business and providing better ways to serve your customers. If your organisation has invested heavily in an packaged application then ensuring its integration with new e-business initiatives will be key to maximising return on investment. UNIFACE from Compuware allows you to integrate components from vendors such as SAP, Baan, Oracle and Microsoft and leading component models such as COM+ and CORBA. The result is the production of an internet-enabled supply chain that utilises existing and new applications, within a considerably reduced development time.

Future Re-Integration

E-business is fundamentally redefining business processes and corporate culture. Compuware's strategy for implementing e-business applications is designed to protect investment in existing skills and business components while maximising the commercial opportunities offered by the internet. This strategy future-proofs applications using a component architecture that integrates seamlessly with enterprise computing infrastructures. UNIFACE, Compuware’s component development and integration framework provides an unrivalled technology and infrastructure independence with a proven track record of providing customers with the ability to change their infrastructure.