iWay Software

Cardinal Partners

Company Overview

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adapter vendor, accelerates business integration by providing tools that make service-oriented architectures easy to implement. Clients achieve short-term ROI by using iWay tools to reduce custom programming and solve problems quickly, while incrementally creating an architecture that supports long-term projects.

The biggest names in software, including BEA, Microsoft, and SAP, use iWay adapters to simplify access to ERP and CRM systems, messaging, legacy systems, e-business protocols like AS2 and ebXML, and more. Additional message transformation and data integration make iWay a natural integration choice - standalone or with other middleware involved in enterprise integration.

Description of Product

iWay adapter classes:

• Data adapters support specific proprietary databases and file systems like PROGRESS, VSAM, Adabas, IMS, IDMS, MUMPS, Model 204, and others.
• Application systems adapters provide object-level support for packaged application systems such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Ariba, Oracle, Lawson, and others.
• Touchpoint adapters abstract integration issues between typical business processes, such as Work Order, Purchase Order, and Sales Order, and common packaged applications like SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and more. Touchpoint adapters reduce the domain knowledge required to work with complex packaged applications while making the enterprise more agile when faced with changing business requirements.
• Transaction systems adapters support automatic transaction invocation, message transformation, and error recovery for transaction systems such as IMS/TM and CICS.
• Technology adapters support many of the technologies that exist in your environment, including application frameworks, message queues, networking protocols, and more.
• Emulation adapters use screen scraping technology to integrate 3270 and 5250 applications through terminal emulation
• e-Business adapters facilitate the automatic transformation of e-business exchange formats such as EDI, SWIFT, FIX, HIPAA, HL7, and dialect-specific XML documents into formats compatible with XML and non-XML-based information resources.

Key Benefits & Features:

• Accelerate integration projects and reduce maintenance overhead by using a common toolset with codeless interfaces to more than 250 disparate systems
• Access reusable interfaces to Enterprise Information Systems through common APIs, messaging systems, J2EE™, .NET, and SOAP-based Web services
• Incorporate EDI and industry standards such as AS2, UCCNet, SWIFT, FIX, HIPAA, and more into your enterprise architecture
• Accelerate e-business development by focusing technical personnel on business issues, not low-level integration
• Avoid recoding or regenerating adapters when back-end applications or data sources change