You are a manufacturer who just implemented QAD. Now you need to integrate your customers, products, prices, shipments etc. and, more importantly, keep QAD synchronized with your other corporate systems. But you don't want to embark on a lengthy project requiring deep integration experience and lots of complex software. Sound familiar? That's why Cast Iron Systems created a family of integration appliances for QAD customers.
"The Cast Iron Integration Appliance enables us to integrate applications within hours. It was simple to install and easy to operate. The iA3000 gives us the means to deliver application integration without the hassle."Gavin Targonski Application Technology Architect, British American Tobacco
Most QAD implementations involve the need to rapidly synchronize master and transactional data — such as quotes, customers, items, production orders, schedules, inventory, packing slips, and invoices — with a variety of other internal systems. Cast Iron Integration Appliances are simple, purpose-built devices that containing everything needed to deliver these integration projects within days.
The Cast Iron Integration Appliance enables enterprises to be nimble and accelerate the adoption of QAD within an enterprise. Here's how the Integration Appliance is able to deliver value quickly:
What Problems Does the Cast Iron Integration Appliance Solve?Large and small companies in a variety of manufacturing industries — ranging from automotive, industrial products and consumer products to electronics, life sciences, and food processing — are using Cast Iron appliances to rapidly solve the following QAD-related business problems:
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What Systems Does the Cast Iron Integration Appliance Connect?Cast Iron integration appliances for QAD provide built-in connectivity to QAD and enable customers to connect a variety of end-points to solve data migration and synchronization problems. The integration appliances provide connectivity to the following end-points:
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The Cast Iron Integration Appliance simplifies QAD 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.
Cast Iron's solution for QAD comprises three distinct appliances — the iA2500, iA3000 and iA3000HA. While these appliances share the same technology foundation, each product is designed to meet specific customer needs:
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 QAD 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 QAD 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 QAD. 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.
