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Case Studies
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Legacy Extension for the large enterprise
Northrop-Grumman is one of the world’s largest defense contractors.
The company operates multiple hosts in many different data center and
workgroup environments. When the company, based in Los Angeles, CA
decided that they needed to integrate multiple systems on multiple
platforms, they contacted INFINITE Corporation. |
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The situation
Northrop was seeking to extend their mainframe and midrange-based
legacy applications by making them graphical and accessible via the web.
The plan had originally been merely to provide browser-based
accessibility for users in order to alleviate expensive data lines. The
cost to maintain point-to-point lines was extremely high. |
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More than browser-based access
Northrop-Grumman’s IT infrastructure provides a series of
custom-designed and customized off-the-shelf software packages that are
accessed by thousands of users from multiple data centers and work
groups throughout North America. In order to alleviate data lines we
sought a vendor that could provide graphical, browser-based access to
our legacy applications. Considering the nature of our business,
security was a top priority. As we began to research the various
options, it became evident to us that some of the newer technology that
was available in this area would also allow us to integrate some of our
legacy applications with each other and desktop applications, as well.
Our new goal became the ability to provide graphical browser access to any
and all of our legacy systems and the ability to link them to our users
in ways that would be user-transparent. |
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Two alternatives become one
In the search for a solution we reduced the number of possible
providers to two. We evaluated both providers to ensure they could
handle our company specific requirements. The support from both
suppliers was very good and both were committed to the fulfillment of
our demands. We took both products and created the design elements of
the graphical look we sought and asked the two vendor teams to create
the look and access we required on prototype systems. Our decision was
based on the following criteria:
• How is the security?
• What is the time to create graphical elements?
• How easy is it to build integration capabilities from application to
application?
• What is the scalability of the architecture?
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Graphical Design and Testing
We developed our graphical screen design to create a simplistic
approach to our various legacy screens. The plan needed to incorporate
all of the crucial elements of all the systems in order to create
standardized design elements for all the soon-to-be integrated systems.
Once we had our criteria in place, the team at INFINITE Corporation created
the scripts and we brought them back in house to test. |
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The largest task – setting up the middle tier
The greatest effort was spent on the set-up of the IIS server farm
that would allow the users concurrent access to multiple legacy systems.
We were greatly influenced by the fact that baby.NET provided a highly
secure three-tier structure. We were impressed with the speed of the
throughput and the scalability of the product. |
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Six weeks from signing to working
Once we decided to sign with INFINITE Corporation, it was installed on our
data center in one afternoon. We then set up the IIS environment and
loaded the tested scripts and went into testing from web-based users.
Throughout the next several weeks, we integrated the other legacy
applications and desktop applications. The services and support teams
from INFINITE Corporation were creative and helpful. |
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Graphical web access-done
After installing baby.NET we have alleviated the costs of data lines and
we can provide thousands of concurrent users access to our systems. |
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TRADEMARKS
Copyright © 2010 INFINITE Corporation. IBM Midrange,AS/400,
OS/400 and System/36 are registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation.Windows,
Internet Explorer, Visual Basic,VB Scripting are registered trademarks of
Microsoft. INFINITEweb, INFINITE BI, INFINITEiSeries, INFINITE 36 are registered trademarks of INFINITE Corporation. All other
product and brand names are registered trademarks of their respective companies. No part of this document may be reproduced without written permission of INFINITE Corporation.
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