Middleware to Connect Apps and Business Overview

LANSA Integrator

Middleware to Connect Applications and Businesses

Applications and Business Data Integration

LANSA Integrator simplifies exchanging data between applications and transferring files and documents between businesses. It enables bi-directional flows of data and/or files in almost any format. LANSA Integrator is strategic middleware that provides tools and services to enable:

Integrator comprises services for data transformation, communications, email, messaging, and web services, complemented by interface tools and utilities. It supports multiple data formats, including XML, EDI, text, video, SMS, email, MicrosoftⓇ ExcelTM workbooks, PDF files, and relational databases. Developers can use these services in their integration applications to transform data from one format to another. It supports multiple data transport methods, including HTTP, FTP, SFTP, web services, and message queue software. Any application can call Integrator’s services using simple APIs.

How Can You Use Integrator?

LANSA Integrator is data integration software for integrating applications and sending data to/from customers, suppliers, and partners. It includes services that developers can use to manage integration interfaces, call upon communications protocols, and transform data from one format to another. With Integrator, developers don’t need a deep knowledge of the underlying technologies used to build integration solutions. Examples of how to use the LANSA data integration software:

Send orders to a manufacturer automatically as XML, text, or email or in an EDI format.
Transfer files securely from desktop or laptop computers to remote servers.
Send data from a mobile device to an application running on a server.
Generate SMS text messages to a mobile device describing the status of orders or deliveries in real time.
Connect a Java-based credit card application to an order entry system.
Integrate back-office applications using data formatted as XML and sent via IBM WebSphere MQ messaging services.
Provide PDF documents, secured with digital certificates and password protected, sent via email for contract negotiations and agreements.

Why Business Executives Choose Integrator

Suppose a new supplier offers you a deal that provides products with improved customer service at a reduced cost but requires an application-to-application interface that your line-of-business (LOB) applications do not support. To take advantage of the deal and purchase from this supplier you will have to develop additional interfaces to your LOB applications that conform to the interface requirements prescribed by the supplier’s application.

Without Integrator, your developers must build both the interfaces to extract data from your LOB applications and the data integration services that Integrator already provides. If your developers don’t have integration skills or tools, you will have to outsource the work to build the interfaces and the services.

With Integrator, your developers build only the interfaces to extract data from your LOB applications and pass the data to Integrator.
They define which Integrator services to use to transform the data to a format that complies with the interface requirements of the supplier’s application.

Don’t overlook the fact that you can also use Integrator to automate and/or improve the efficiency of interfaces with existing suppliers.

Your developers will be more productive when using Integrator. The interfaces will be developed quickly so that your company can begin a relationship with a new supplier sooner.

Benefits of LANSA Integrator

The technologies used in application integration can be many and complex. LANSA Integrator’s APIs and built-in functions simplify the task of building interfaces to Visual LANSA or RPG, which results in faster development and implementation of integration requirements.

Developer Assistance
with Data Integration

LANSA Integrator assists developers with building data integration solutions. It simplifies integration design by providing the tools needed to receive, extract, transform, and send data. Developers need only to define the data and transformation rules and choose a data transport.

Complex Tasks
Made Easy

Easily design and build data flows that link a new application with existing applications, especially data flows that cross corporate boundaries. LANSA Integrator takes care of the detailed work that ensures the data is in the desired format and reaches its destination successfully.

Easy-to-Use
Command Set

Developers can interact with LANSA Integrator’s services to manipulate data using simple commands instead of coding complex APIs. Integrator uses no invasive integration techniques that require changes to source or target applications for the integration to operate successfully.

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