Jacada Broadens Integration Options to Include Microsoft's COM
Jacada Connects Enables Seamless Integration for Microsoft-Based E-Commerce Applications and Existing Back Office Systems
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000-- Atlanta-based Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA - news), today announced that Jacada© Connects now includes a Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) adapter, enabling seamless integration between any Microsoft-based e-commerce solution and any mainframe or AS/400 application. Customers can now fully integrate COM-based e-commerce products, like Active Server Pages (ASPs) within Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) or IBM's Net.Commerce, with existing back-end systems for complete end-to-end transaction processing and fulfillment.
Jacada Connects now offers both a Java and COM API to help integrate e-commerce sites with existing business applications solving one of the biggest issues organizations face when deploying e-commerce applications. According to Gartner Group, ``...Enterprises that plan to sell products over the Internet, should first develop a strategy for back-end fulfillment. Enterprises that fail to do that will have lower profitability and may permanently damage customer relationships.' According to Gartner, many organizations defer implementation of back-end integration and the approach has forced many organizations to shut down their Web sites.
iCentric Solutions Ltd. has used Jacada Connects to build one of the first e-commerce applications capable of allowing users to purchase insurance policies, integrating the Microsoft-based e-commerce site with the insurance company's existing legacy applications. ``With no modifications to the existing applications, we were able to leverage hundreds of thousands of lines of complicated business logic to automate the entire transaction cycle,' says Yuval Moneta, president and chief technical officer of iCentric Solutions Ltd. ``To be honest, to this day I don't know and don't care what language was used for the host application - Jacada Connects insulated us from having to re-architect or even understand the underlying application logic.'
According to a recent study by Netcraft, 52 percent of today's top 100 e-commerce sites run on Microsoft platform products.
``Jacada Connects has solved this integration problem by providing seamless access between Java-based custom or packaged e-commerce solutions and back-end systems,' said Rob Morris, director of product marketing, Jacada. ``Adding the Microsoft COM adapter for Jacada Connects completes the picture by enabling rapid integration between virtually any e-commerce solution and the existing back-end processes.' |
