• Applications

• Services

• Processes

Imagine being able to design applications exactly as your business needs without the constraints of an off the shelf package, or the costs and risks of a traditional developed application.

The scope may include external processes as well as internal, and may include the undocumented “how we really do things” as well as clearly defined processes and procedures.

Such applications may include:

• Front end Business applications
  • Quotation Systems
  • Product Configurators
  • Call centre systems

• End user, field based applications
  • Mobile sales and stock enquiry
  • Field based surveyors and designers

• Non core business applications
  • Transportation scheduling
  • Self billing

In this fast moving world, some parts of businesses change more rapidly than others as factors change.
Some will be internal such
as mergers and acquisitions, and others will be external such as legislative and tax changes or competitive pressures.

In line with this, organisations are learning that they must decouple software that changes frequently from core systems that tend to change infrequently such as ERP systems. When these principles are applied in practise, this forms the basis of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

In reality, SOA is not about any particular technology. Rather it is a design philosophy that achieves the above objective of decoupling stable business functions from volatile processes and presentations.

Eden models (applications) are presented as a series of interconnected services that allow organisations to rapidly change their front end applications and processes in order to match the dynamics of today’s rapidly changing businesses.

Imagine being able to view all the applications and databases within the organisation from a single perspective. Then add the ability to fully integrate between them, adding and enriching along the way, together with workflow to control events and perform functions such as intelligent emailing based on the content of the processes and data.

Eden acts as an Enterprise Server Bus (ESB) connecting all elements of the business – applications, databases and processes. The ability to build this integration is commonly known as either Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) or, sometimes, Application to Application (A2A) Integration.

Extend this capability to outside the organisation, and external integration to customers and suppliers comes into play. Embrace the ability to truly collaborate with these trading partners via Business to Business (B2B) standards. Full XML support is provided with Eden for inbound and outbound data.