OpenSpan for SOA

OpenSpan helps you to accelerate your Service-Oriented Architecture in two primary ways:

Expose Services

Service-enable virtually any application. With OpenSpan, any functionality delivered to users via the user interface can now exposed as a service and deployed to your Middleware/SOA platform of choice. And because of OpenSpan's technology approach, this extends to a wide range of applications including:

• Windows desktop applications
• Host applications
• Web applications
• Java applications
• SaaS and 3rd party applications for which you don't own or have access to source code
• Closed or custom-built applications with no available API or connector
• Citrix-hosted applications

Service-enable business workflows. Not only can you service-enable a workflow within a single application, you can also service-enable a workflow that spans multiple applications, including workflows that involve desktop applications.

Move applications off user desktops. Most organizations still employ legacy desktop applications because they contain data that doesn't exist anywhere else or because there is business logic required for a defined set of business workflows. Once you have service-enabled these applications or workflows, you can move them off users' desktops altogether using the OpenSpan Virtual Broker.

Consume Services

Extend existing applications to consume services. Because OpenSpan gives you the same control over the property, methods and events of every user interface object, you can very easily add new logic to an application. With OpenSpan, any application can become a consumer of any internal or third-party service such as address verification, do-not-call list verification, credit verification and more.

Extend BPM to the desktop. Enable an enterprise BPM workflow to call an OpenSpan-created service hosted on a user's desktop. For the first time ever, BPM solutions can now have direct visibility into the user's desktop environment; activity within an application or in a workflow that spans multiple desktop applications. For more on OpenSpan's role in BPM, please visit the OpenSpan for BPM solution page.

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