Most organizations run a number of separated systems, which contain useful information and data but – for historical, organizational and technological reasons – live isolated and not communicating. Such systems are “legacy”, in the sense that they cannot be easily scrapped away and replaced since they are essential to daily company operations; and yet they have rigid limitations on how, by whom and in what cases the data they contain/manage can be accessed, extracted, and used.
Xtractor business integration framework offers: Extensibility: the core of Xtractor being a general framework, it can host plug-ins that handles business- or sourcedependent tasks. Scalability: Xtractor can be deployed in any company size, and start from any point to grow further with company needs, due to its architecture and the application server features. Security: All security issues (authentication, authorization, access control) are covered by the combination of J2EE standards and Xtractor handling of information visibility. Xtractor is simple and rapid to deploy and combines the best capabilities from traditional technology:
An Enterprise Information Integration platform offering a single access point to the whole organization's information and business processes through XML.
A Business Portal delivering relevant and ”up-to-date” information to end- users, accessible through the Web.
Information integration level and scalability/response-time performance from Datawarehousing.
Standard access method to different systems and exchange of information between operational systems from Middleware and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).
Business Logic Components reusable (in B2C, B2B, B2E, etc…) from Business Portals.
Independence of presentation device (Web, WAP, Palm-tops, etc.).
