Proliance Technology

The Proliance^® solution was built around the concept of a service oriented architecture (SOA). This approach recognizes that technology systems should be designed as a number of autonomous services in order to support the integration and growth demands of today's business enterprise. SOA lets various environments and applications exist while leveraging legacy applications and infrastructure.

SOA has come about as IT systems have traditionally suffered from two major issues:

• Inflexibility after customer deployment.
• High ongoing cost of ownership integrating to and from other systems.

The rapid industry adoption of such technologies as XML and Web Services has provided the building blocks for realizing an SOA product. Proliance uses secure and industry standard Web Services and has utilized XML as the core data representation format. This translates to providing open solutions for real-world business problems, lowered support costs, improved collaboration, ability to integrate with third party systems, expandable system capabilities and reduction in integration costs.

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The Proliance solution provides:

Integration Web Services and XML allow for real-time integration with other enterprise systems.

Scalability Mission critical application designed to handle thousands of users in a server farm.

Collaboration SOA facilitates easier access to supply chain for collaboration of real time information.

How does Proliance Architecture Lower Total Cost of Ownership?

Estimating an accurate total cost of ownership of a solution is becoming increasingly relevant to successful IT operations. The last three years have shown that IT initiatives with the most immediate return on investment involve reducing running costs. The Proliance architecture provides a number of advantages in terms of the cost of IT ownership including:

Hardware
Proliance can be deployed on cost-effective commodity computer hardware. Proliance has been designed to work within a web farm commonly deployed in data centers, while taking advantage of the back office relational database management system (RDBMS) storage technology. This translates into servicing more users with less hardware and with better response times.

Infrastructure
Proliance is deployed over Microsoft^® Windows Server 2003, which has been shown to significantly reduce administration costs compared to previous releases and other operating systems vendors.

Zero-Footprint Client
Proliance is web-native, eliminating IT deployment issues common with installed software reducing the impact on the users desktop or installed software.

Business Process Management Expediency
The Proliance Architecture has been built to flexibly and quickly execute Business Process Management across Proliance applications. Rapidly implement business without lengthy and expensive software changes.

Lower Integration Costs
Proliance is built using industry standard Web services and technology allowing easy integration with existing enterprise application infrastructure investments.

Uniform User Interface
As part of the Proliance Platform, the browser-based user interface uses a number of simple yet powerful workflow concepts for Business Process Management. This uniformity reduces costs for end-user training and lessens the reliance on tier-one help-desk support.

Additional Application Server Licenses
Proliance does not use third-party application server licenses such as Citrix Metaframe or any expensive J2EE container software. With Proliance, the high initial costs and ongoing support fees of this additional infrastructure have been eliminated.