Integration

Challenge
As organizations look beyond a specific mobile solution and begin to meet multiple departmental needs and/or mobilize multiple applications within the enterprise, they require a mobile infrastructure that can support integration with a wide variety of back-end systems and integration approaches. The alternative is a collection of inflexible ‘stove-pipe’ solutions, each with potentially separate software stacks which may result in higher TCO (e.g. licensing costs, maintenance costs, software development & support skills, training costs, etc.), difficulties in administering a uniform security model, complexities with testing, and an increase in software defects.

Applying mNOW!
The mNOW! Mobile Framework^® provides a comprehensive and robust set of services and capabilities to support the integration of multiple mobile applications to multiple back-end systems through a broad variety of integration approaches. Recognized as a leading Multi-channel Access Gateway (MAG) product, the mNOW! Mobile Framework includes a sophisticated and highly extensible Integration Engine that utilizes the Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation to provide robust business processing and orchestration.

mNOW!’s Integration Workflows include enterprise-grade error handling and notification services, enabling rules-based notification of integration errors to appropriate IT or business resources via email, SMS (text messaging), system event logs and/or other notification methods.

Loosely coupled Integration Services, based upon Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principles, support a variety of integration approaches including, but not limited to, Web Services, database access (e.g. ODBC, ADO.NET, etc.), file I/O (e.g. Delimited Text Files, XML Files, etc.), COM/COM+/DCOM, and programmatic APIs.

Blue Dot provides pre-built Integration Services for several industry leading EAM solutions such as Infor EAM, Oracle EAM/OAT, JDE, PeopleSoft, Mincom and others.