Agile Business Suite Enables Service Oriented Architecture

How Do You Respond to Change?

Agility – it’s the only way to succeed in the face of unrelenting change. Does your organization have the agility it takes to respond to change fast? Do you have the tools and infrastructure you need to be able to take action?
 

You do – with Agile Business Suite.
 

Imagine this. Your business development director comes to you with a great new business opportunity. And she needs IT to provide the infrastructure to quickly begin supporting this new business process. There’s no time to develop a completely new application. You’ll have to use whatever you have, perhaps connect to a supplier’s Web services and add one or two new components. Agile Business Suite is just the tool needed to help you get it done fast.

Think of Agile Business Suite as a Service Oriented Architecture-enabler

Industry publications, analysts, even your CEO say Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is what’s needed to be able to respond quickly to a new business opportunity or a competitive threat. You need to be able to assemble and re-assemble the right elements from existing applications and some new components to form a composite application. The reuse of existing elements reduces testing. And building new elements for reuse gives you investment protection.

With Agile Business Suite, you can build composite applications quickly and easily. 

In addition, Agile Business Suite lets you define your application in high-level business terms. Your business experts and IT professionals can truly work together to create the new solution. They focus on what an application should do – not how it should be coded. Then Agile Business Suite does the rest.

Look at these features:

• Model-based development using object-oriented constructs that support reusability
• Design, development and generation of services or complete, high-performance, highly available, enterprise-class applications from a single model definition
• Integration of state-of-the-art development tools from Unisys, Microsoft and others
• A rich variety of deployment options, including the Microsoft Windows .NET framework, J2EE application servers and Unisys ClearPath platforms – or any combination thereof

Agile Business Suite includes:

• AB Suite Developer – a fully featured development environment to define, debug, generate, deploy and maintain business-critical services and solutions. Built on Visual Studio from Microsoft
• AB Suite Runtime for Microsoft .NET framework, J2EE environments and ClearPath mainframes

Look at all the benefits:

• Applications are defined and modified at a higher level of abstraction than traditional 3GL languages, such as C++ and Java, resulting in fewer errors and better quality solutions
• Uses Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagrams for design definition, making it easier to hire and train new developers
• Contains a powerful scripting language to capture specific processing actions
• Generates a complete multi-tiered solution that includes online transactions, batch reports, database schema and a variety of end-user interface options from a single, platform-independent model
• Makes maintenance much, much easier. Changes made in the model are automatically propagated throughout the application
• Provides “safe passage” for existing Enterprise Application Environment release level 3.3 applications. Load your EAE 3.3 model file into AB Suite Developer, click on a few options and generate it for the same platform.

With Agile Business Suite, you have built-in traceability between your business processes and executable solutions. What’s visible in the model gets deployed to your real-time infrastructure.  Automatically.

Have a Service Oriented Architecture Software Business Consultant from Unisys contact you.