A bright future for application vendors
Enhance Applications Without Rewriting Them
Working with your existing development platforms and standards, Ensemble lets you rapidly enhance existing applications – without rewriting – by adding:
- Rich Web interfaces
- Messaging via an extensible enterprise service bus (ESB)
- Business rules processing
- Dashboards
- Data transformation
- Adaptable workflow
- Web services and other service-oriented architecture technology
- Business activity monitoring
- Out-of-the-box integration with the most popular applications, databases, and technologies
- Business process orchestration
Using the advanced object technology found in InterSystems Caché® our high-performance database, Ensemble seamlessly combines best-of-breed integration functionality with a rapid application development environment and consistent, end-to-end management. Designed with today’s service-oriented and eventdriven architectures in mind, Ensemble excels at quickly building and deploying new business solutions that can leverage the functionality of existing applications, orchestrate new business processes, and integrate data from across an enterprise.
The new capabilities of your Ensemble-enriched applications will give you a competitive advantage by helping your customers meet their most pressing IT challenges, including:
- Making applications and information widely accessible through a variety of channels such as WiFi-enabled PDAs and other mobile devices
- Collecting and aggregating information from disparate sources into a single, comprehensive view
- Automating business processes, including easily modifiable business rules to control process execution, and human workflow
- Achieving data consistency across multiple applications and databases
CASE STUDY
Own and orchestrate a customer's key business processes
CHALLENGE: Software vendor needs to regain a strategic role in its customers’ operations.
INNOVATION: Introduce a new product featuring rapid composite application development and rules-based business process automation.
Credit unions have evolved. Their charters have become more diverse, and the number of services they offer has skyrocketed. As a result, the companies that supply software to support what used to be core credit union functions – savings and loans – have seen their influence in these businesses wane. Maestro Projects Group (MPG), a subsidiary of USERS Incorporated, a supplier of such software, found that by using Ensemble it could re-establish a central relationship with credit unions, and increase sales of new software and services.
The solution is an Ensemble-based integration platform composed of standardized components for credit unions. It leverages key Ensemble features, such as rapid composite application development and rules-based business process automation, to keep deployment time and cost low. Solution components can be customized easily to the requirements of each institution using Ensemble’s graphical business rules editor. When those requirements change, rules can be changed by the credit union itself, without incurring extra costs. Most customers begin by integrating the account opening process, then moving on to tackle other issues.
“Our credit union customers are completing routine processes in five minutes instead of fifteen. At the same time, they’re reducing the risk of error or fraud because Ensemble business rules and workflow assure that all steps in the process are completed as designed.”
Anne Ballard, General Manager, Maestro Projects Group. Maestro is a subsidiary of USERS Incorporated, which is a unit of Fiserv, a Fortune 500 company providing information management systems and services to the financial and insurance industries.
Ensemble: Integrate & Innovate
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