Freedom of movement, more flexible infrastructure, Open standard at work
Aiming at "open" system is a confident choice that an always growing number of companies are making. The aim is to make always more easier, ductile and performing its own IT infrastructures.
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Open standards, the keyword that keeps your company free. Free to exchange documents with everybody, free from the strategy changes of the vendors, free also to choose the supplier. In fact, besides restraining the licence cost, the "open" model removes any problem coming out from the abandonment, by the software house, of the development of the software bought, from the non renewal of the licence, from the new limitations of use introduced and from the non support.
With Open Source if the current supplier goes bankrupt or does not want to renew the contract, it will be enough to change supplier, maintaining the same software and your habits.
Aiming at open systems, you will also have the possibility to have the warranty of a bigger privacy concerning your business.
For example having at disposal the code of the programs we use, it is more difficult that some operations could be done or started without you notice them.
From a similar availability depends also the possibility to personalize every aspect of a new program. This means also to increase the flexibility of the whole system. It increases also the range of application possibilities of a program. You can also move an application to a new architecture, opening so new possibilities.
>>Middleware
>>Middleware for client
Lotus Expeditor. It is the new "middleware" for the client. Created by IBM and totally based on Eclipse open source framework, that was also originally created by IBM and then given to the community. Expeditor adds to Ecplise a management architecture worth of the enterprise world. From provisioning to security, from documentation to support, Expeditor is the base of all the new products IBM client (i.e. Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and Lotus Symphony).
Expeditor, as "middleware", is a service platform available for developers and system integrators to realise end-to-end solutions.
Available for a wide set of operating systems and platforms, Windows and Linux, but also mobile devices, it offers common application systems such as:
- Single Sign On at client level;
- a centralised provisioning agent for the secure distribution of the applications;
- the integration for the data duplication between client and server (with IBM DB2 everyplace);
- the integration with MQ Series to support the company processes also with mobile users;
- the composite applications, that is applications able to enter and integrate the information coming from several systems. The integrations happen directly in the user's client without need to create expensive additions on the information system backend;
- the runtime support for the JSR 168 portlets and the portlets realised with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory;
- the runtime support for the J2EE "mobile" applications and the integration of Web Services.
>>Company productivity, ready for integration
Lotus Symphony. That is an innovative suite of office productivity created by IBM on an OpenSource base and available for Windows, Linux and Mac (OS X). The new suite is completely free and supports the most common formats as well as the ODF formats (Open Document Format).
Lotus Symphony presents itself like an "upgrade" for the use of OpenOffice in the company, and it includes a subset of Lotus Expeditor functionalities. These characteristics make it interesting both for the company that wants to have available a supported device, and for the ISV or the software house that wants to develop its own solution around a productivity device, integrating specific functionalities (CRM, ERP or others) for the management and production of documents.
