etWeave has successfully installed its NetWeave middleware product into the systems of Global 5000 companies worldwide. The need for such businesses to build enterprise-wide distributed applications is being fueled by today's competitive pressures to improve customer service, to reduce costs, to raise quality, and to respond faster to the marketplace. These applications must reach across the company's incompatible proprietary systems, which have been deployed over the last thirty years, and extend themselves to today's open technologies of UNIX and PC workstations, local area networks, and SQL servers.
Many of the business situations in which NetWeave plays a vital role involve applications which are truly mission-critical. "Mission-critical" mean enterprise dependence, often interpreted as "bet your company." If the system goes down, so do the operations of the enterprise. If the applications perform poorly, so does the enterprise. If the applications do not scale well, enterprise growth is hampered. If the integrity of the operational data is compromised, so is the image of the enterprise.
NetWeave is designed specifically to support the high performance, scalability, reliability, data integrity, and heterogeneous needs of mission-critical distributed applications. The many ways it accomplishes this are detailed in our technical white paper, "What NetWeave Is - The Technical Case For NetWeave."
NetWeave facilitates the development of our customers' mission-critical applications with a flexibility not found in any other middleware product today - and for a cost and a level of risk which is a small fraction of that associated with building an equivalent capacity from scratch. This is the business reason for which corporations choose NetWeave as their middleware infrastructure.
Three major themes thread their way through all of NetWeave's customer applications. The examples below are of implementations designed to achieve one or more of the following goals:
Improve Operational Efficiency
Concord EFS moves millions of dollars a day through it Visa and MAC processing network. In response to a Congressional mandate, Concord EFS needed an efficient, real-time transaction backup facility that would serve as both a data warehouse as well as a disaster-recovery facility, NetWeave, using it's Professional Services staff and the NetWeave product, created the Remote Logging facility that extracted transaction data and moved to to RS6000's running Oracle on a remote network.
Rabo Bank, based in the Netherlands, has created a middleware infrastructure based on NetWeave, which encapsulates the services of an HP/Himalaya Customer Information System with an IBM OS/390 Account Management system. All branch-based users, tellers, customers, and indeed, applications see a single homogenized view of these systems thanks to NetWeave and Rabo's IT Staff.
Kaiser Permanente uses NetWeave to tie its OpenVMS and RS6000 based pharmacy systems to a Himalaya master subscriber data base to allow subscribers to dial in prescription orders from their touchtone key pads, using Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) technology. Recently, Kaiser has extended this facility to their OnLine Pharmacy facilities for web-based customers.
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