OpenSpan Product Information
OpenSpan technology brings Rapid Integration and Seamless Intertaction of Applications from virtually any platform or origin.
How OpenSpan Works:
At its core, every application, regardless of the technology or age, includes a set of objects that interact with the underlying Windows® operating system and provide a basic set of functionality. These objects were originally constructed by the application developers and assembled together with a user interface designed to create a positive user experience. Some applications offer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), but many applications do not. Even those that do offer API’s do not provide a flexible way to extend the functionality to allow for customization. In other words, you are limited to the data integration points that the original developers thought were important, not what is necessarily important for your business today.
Every mouse click, every hyperlink, every submit button involves a series of communications between the objects and the operating system. OpenSpan leverages the on-going communication between objects and their supporting operating systems to perform integrations and automations that you prescribe. More specifically, OpenSpan utilizes an event-driven approach in which code is injected into participating applications at runtime with the purpose of performing a given integration or automation once a pre-defined event occurs.
OpenSpan takes a unique approach to integration by delivering an integration platform that enables any object from any application to be exposed, normalized, accessed, and ultimately integrated with any other object. Effectively, OpenSpan breaks down your applications walls and allows you to use the core functional blocks (objects) in ways well beyond the applications original intentions. Now you can connect objects between applications and add logic to form automations, add new functionality to existing applications, or even to build new composite applications that consist of functionality (objects) from multiple applications in a single unified view that dramatically improves end-user productivity.
And OpenSpan allows you to do all of this in a very iterative and scalable way, ranging from simple automations that deliver almost immediate benefit to desktop users to more robust integrations between older legacy applications and newer solutions such as Windows applications, Web services, and Internet Applications.
OpenSpan Platform Components
There are three primary components to the OpenSpan Platform:
1. OpenSpan Studio is the free OpenSpan IDE built on the Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 shell. Use this tool it to interrogate your applications to expose their underlying objects, which assigns a digital fingerprint to uniquely identify each object, build automations and integrations from these objects, test them prior to deploying, and easily administer changes on an on-going basis. Download OpenSpan Studio now.
2. OpenSpan Runtime (f. OpenSpan Integrator) is our lightweight and embeddable deployment runtime installed to enterprise desktops to run the solutions created in OpenSpan Studio.
3. OpenSpan Virtual Broker deploys OpenSpan solutions as services in a server environment instead of across enterprise desktops.
