Software AG (SAG), has launched a new version of its EntireX application integration software to corral its popular legacy database management system, Adabas, into its new e-commerce focus.
The EntireX middleware links software applications across different operating system platforms. It will allow 5,000 worldwide users of SAG’s mainframe Adabas database management system to access the applications from web-based computing environments. EntireX also makes IBM’s mainframe-based transaction management environment, CICS, used globally by an estimated 30,000 clients, accessible from Windows NT-based systems.
SAG chief technologist, Andy Joss said that the latest version of EntireX formed one of three cornerstones of the vendor’s new e-commerce strategy. It complements Bolero, SAG’s integrated software development environment for e-business applications, and Tamino, a database management system based on the XML internet standard.
Bolero, which was launched earlier this year, incorporates Microsoft DCOM and Java models allowing users to develop Microsoft ActiveX and Java Applets for the internet. The product automates complex e-commerce transactions like online ordering and is pitched at major corporates needing to support multiple users. Tamino, to be launched in October, is described by SAG as an information server that SAG claims will enable users to capture and format XML-based sales data from the Internet without a sluggish relational database management system.
Joss said SAG’s new e-commerce focus sprang from feedback from the vendor’s 2,000 active customers. They want to be out there on the internet trading not just securely, but sensibly, automating as far as possible transactions and process with customers, said Joss.
SAG is embracing a pay-per-use pricing model under its e-commerce strategy and will announce a deal for Bolero with London-based chauffeurs, Safe and Secure next month under which the client pays per e-commerce transaction.
Joss said SAG had previously stuck with a per-license pricing module because of the need to carry its legacy customers many of which have systems that do not currently enable leasing of remotely-hosted applications.
