Introduction of enterprise integration suite

SCADA/HMI

September 2001 SCADA/HMI

Wonderware is offering its Avantis Integration Suite software, which enables asset management information to feed strategic business decisions and is a critical new element to the company's previously announced collaborative asset optimisation (cAO) strategy.

The Avantis Integration Suite enables the rapid integration of key functional components including e-commerce, plant floor data, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial data. The suite is deployed on a system framework developed by Canopy International, a Wonderware e-business solutions integrator. This framework is B2B and application-to-application enabled, which allows Avantis customers to enhance their business process simplicity, efficiency, and automation.

Based on industry standards developed by the Open Applications Group (OAGI), a prominent standards organisation and leading publisher of XML content, the Avantis Integration Suite provides re-usable XML-based business process templates to facilitate the transfer of information throughout the enterprise and between trading partners, according to Mike le Plastrier, Managing Director of Futuristix.

"Many companies are mired in mazes of point-to-point application interfaces that have been incrementally added to existing systems over time simply to share information between various applications," le Plastrier said. "It takes an enormous amount of time and effort first to create and then to maintain these interfaces - and the Avantis Integration Suite has been designed specifically to solve these problems.

"This suite is the first deliverable in our cAO initiative and we view cAO as the hub of the enterprise - transforming plant floor data into actionable business information and simultaneously taking business information and bringing it to wherever it may be needed on the plant floor."

"Although there are many ways to integrate systems, the model that is required for e-business is one that is based on business processes; it has become a strategic imperative because business processes will inevitably change over time," said John Campbell, Chief Executive Officer of Canopy International. "The Avantis integration solution enabled by our framework offers users a platform that can adapt to industry changes quickly, can improve efficiency and can reduce e-business costs."

Futuristix

(011) 723 9900

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www.futuristix.co.za

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