Winter -2007

 

 The AS/400 excitement today is the ability to use a web browser as the user interface for legacy AS/400 applications. Any interactive application can be changed to a web application using the FREE tools that come with every AS/400. There is no need for any expensive Web facing tool, or Web Sphere, or Java development tools.  Even the smaller business installation can take advantage of the use of making the web browser the gateway to the AS/400.

 

Utilizing a browser interface offers many very significant advantages:

 

  1. The elimination of a client access product on the user PC, thus allowing both local and remote users flexibility in the location and equipment they use to access the system.
  2. The web interface uses NO interactive capacity on the AS/400. This means many, many more users can quickly access the applications without any need to upgrade interactive capacity. This leads to a much lower cost per user, since interactive processing power is much more expensive than batch processing power on the AS/400.
  3. With a browser interface, you offer the world standard interface while still maintaining the data security, data reliability, back up and recovery advantages, and business logic that makes the AS/400 the most popular business computing system ever.

 

Instead of being faced with thousands of dollars of new application development or the prospect of migrating to a PC server solution in response to user demands for a graphical interface, the AS/400 IT department can meet all the requirements at the lowest possible cost while still utilizing the legacy software inventory.

 

Horwitz & Associates, Inc. can help you take the next step to bring your AS/400 shop to the World Wide Web. Call us today.

 

Here's more exciting news.

Solution400 (S4i) has always been the leader in report distribution, bundling, and archiving. Their new release is full of NEW, extraordinary features to even further increase the ROI from the S4i Express and S4i WebView products. Now you can include your network documents in the S4i management scheme. S4i also has a seamless interface to Kofax scanning to allow I-Series management of documents from any source.
We are pleased to represent this fine vendor of complete document management soltuions.

 

 

 

 

Jere V. Horwitz

 

 

  

 

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