Compaq Promotes Sales of Himalaya for Enterprise Application
Integration
December 9, 1999 (TOKYO) -- Compaq Computer KK of Japan will focus on applying
its Himalaya parallel processing server to its enterprise application integration service
from January 2000.
The service sets up a scheme of flexibly exchanging data between systems inside and
outside a company using enterprise application integration (EAI) software, or
middleware for improving efficiency, and the Himalaya server.
The Himalaya server equipped with EAI software will be used as an "EAI server"
providing a "hub" function in data exchange. The service targets promoting sales of
Himalaya servers to EAI applications in large-scale systems requiring high reliability
and performance and in the banking and telecommunication sectors.
Compaq expects orders for using the systems where data exchange accompanies a
large quantity of transactions. The service will be priced at 100 million yen or more,
including costs of hardware, software and system building. (102.67 yen = US$1)
Compaq will use not only EAI software, but also workflow management and other
software in its EAI service. "The service will achieve data linkage between systems
following sequence of business processes," said a Compaq official.
For example, when sending data from an order received in an electronic commerce (EC)
system to a delivery system, the EAI server will relay the data and trigger a workflow
process for sending the order to more than one department if the quantity exceeds a
certain level.
Compaq has selected EAI software for use in IBM's MQSeries Integrator and eLink
(from BEA Systems Inc.) as well as workflow management software such as InConcert
(manufactured by Xerox Corp. and distributed by Toshiba Corp.). An EAI service
started at Banco Nacional de Mexico (Banamex) of Mexico reportedly uses Himalaya
servers and related software. The bank has linked three types of mainframes, provided
by different makers and running systems for accounting as well as credit-card
information processing, to 1,200 UNIX servers for controlling branch offices.
(Nikkei Computer) |
