You invested in CA Clarity to better manage IT projects throughout your business. Now you need to synchronize data with various ERP and financial systems in order to get complete visibility into the performance of these projects, but you are tight on time and resources. Sound familiar?
"Without Cast Iron, we simply could not have met our aggressive schedules and ROI goals for integrating CA Clarity with our global financial systems."Scott Wallace Sr. IT Relationship Manager, Infor
Most Clarity implementations need to rapidly migrate and/or synchronize master and transactional data — such as employee, resource, project, customer, case, invoice and other financial data — with a variety of systems and databases to effectively manage their entire IT project portfolio. The Cast Iron iA3000 is a simple, purpose-built appliance that delivers everything required to solve integration projects quickly using a "configuration, not coding" approach.
The Cast Iron family of integration appliances allows IT departments to respond quickly to requirements for integrating Clarity with other business systems. Here's how the appliances deliver immediate ROI:
What Problems Does the Cast Iron Integration Appliance Solve?Companies in many sectors — including financial, professional services, bio-tech, manufacturing, high-tech and energy — use Cast Iron's solution for Clarity to solve the following integration problems:
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What Systems Does the Cast Iron Integration Appliance Connect?Cast Iron integration appliances for Clarity enable customers to connect a variety of end-points to solve data migration and synchronization problems. The integration appliances connect Clarity to the following end-points:
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The Cast Iron Integration Appliance simplifies CA Clarity integration in just four easy steps:
The Integration Appliance contains pre-built connectivity to a wide variety of enterprise applications, databases, flat-files, and on-demand applications. Using a "configuration, not coding" approach for connecting applications not only enables rapid implementations, but also eliminates the need to touch the endpoints. The appliance provides a graphical UI to transform data between source and target applications, and provides automatic completeness checks. A workflow process can be defined using drag-and-drop logical functions. And, a single web-based console provides complete visibility to data flowing through the appliance and enables complete management of the integrations.
The Cast Iron Integration Appliance provides three components to configure, deploy and manage your CA Clarity integration projects.
Cast Iron Studio (Studio) is at the heart of the easy-to-use design experience offered by Cast Iron's Integration Appliances. Studio provides a graphical environment for you to configure integration data
flows called workflows or orchestrations. Studio allows you to create these workflows by dragging and dropping activities into a design window. Once designed, these workflows can be published to the
appliance with a single click.
Combining ease-of-use with robust functionality, the purpose-built Run-time Appliance brings high performance and reliability to your integration solution. With easy scalability and complete security, the appliance is self-contained and has everything needed to complete your integrations.
The Web Management Console (WMC) is a simple-to-use environment where you deploy integration projects, and then securely monitor and manage these integrations. The Web Management Console also manages all deployment assets related to the integration for you. These assets could include the WSDL definition for a web service to invoke your integration or database scripts to send database events to the Cast Iron Integration Appliance.
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The iA2000 is the entry-level integration appliance from Cast Iron. It allows customers to get their first integration project between Clarity and any one named application up and quickly and cost effectively. This is an attractive alternative for custom code and good fit for simpler projects.
Entry-level appliance provides integration between Clarity and one other named application. Allows customers to consider an integration solution for simpler integration projects, and is an attractive alternative to custom code.
Flagship solution solves integration problems between multiple applications including Clarity. Useful for companies that seek a standard solution for their application integration needs and find software-based integration solutions too complex.
High Availability solution for mission-critical applications. Comprised of a pair of iA4000 appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability. Useful for companies that need a hot standby option in addition to high-availability requirements.
