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Why snap for the Microsoft platform?

  • Most organizations with IBM back-ends have significant investments in Microsoft products like Windows, Office and SharePoint
  • Most business users are familiar with and prefer to use dominant front-ends like Outlook and SharePoint
  • Delivering robust IBM back-end functionality through market-leading front-ends, improves User Experience(UX) and productivity
  • Allowing component level access to IBM back-end applications enables integration with the Microsoft platform using tools like Windows Workflow
  • Easy reuse of IBM investments with any Microsoft product including .NET, Biztalk, Dynamics etc. improves ROI from existing investments

“A survey of 241 IT decision makers by Forrester in March 2008, found 96% had implemented, were implementing or were considering implementing Microsoft Office 2007. And 61% wanted to access their core Line of Business applications from Office.”
North American and Western European Enterprise Microsoft Office 2007 Adoption Online Survey

 


snap for Microsoft platforms

snap connectors for the Microsoft platform include:

  • .NET web service access to IBM back-end application components
    - Integrates with BizTalk, Windows Workflow Foundation
  • Visual Studio User Interface(UI) container
  • Outlook UI container
  • Sharepoint web part generation
  • Word integration
  • Excel integration
  • Windows Server integration
  • IBM back-end application access options
    - 5250/3270 datastream
    - ADO, DDM, DB access
    - RPC
    - Web services support
  • Dynamic multichannel UI generation
    - .NET rich client
    - ASP .NET thin client
    - Windows Mobile
Benefits include:

1) Streamlined workflow and automated business processes
2) Unified view, improved User Experience(UX)
3) Improved acceptance of i applications
4) Greater productivity gains
5) All this without changing a single line of code!

snap you existing i applications into any other application!

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“SharePoint growth for the year ended June 30 2008 was 35% making a total of over 100 million licenses.”
Stephen Elop, President Microsoft Business Division
July 2008

 

“Our end-users are very happy with the convenience and added functions.... they love the seamless integration with Microsoft Office and now think the System i is wonderful!”
Mr. Lee, IT Team Leader, adidas Korea.



“Around 70% of users of MMS
actually spent most of their day in Microsoft Outlook, so providing MMS integration with Office means our
customers can cut costs
through streamlined workflows.”
Agilysys, a leading ISV.

Agilysys customers include 80% of the casinos on the strip in Las Vegas, including Mandalay Bay, New York New York, the Gold Nugget and the Venetian.

 



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