Vanenburg introduces Cordys collaboration suite

Venkat Pulapaka / Hyderabad

Vanenburg Asia, the sales and marketing arm of the Netherlands-based Vanenburg Group, has made its debut in the Asian market with the Cordys collaboration suite. Cordys leverages the combined functionality of a Web services-based application development platform and integration middleware, workflow modeller, business rules engine, and a portal-based management toolkit.

Cordys helps organisations to extend and modernise their legacy applications, including ERP systems, and at the same time improve the utilisation of investments made in existing technology infrastructure, said D Bharath, president of Vanenburg Asia.
“In the Internet economy competitive advantage stems from information sharing and joint decision-making with suppliers and other business partners. The ability to integrate disparate business processes and IT applications has become a priority for businesses today,” said Bharath.

The Cordys suite paves the way for flexible integration between applications and processes within and outside the organisation. It also provides a development environment, which helps organisations to customise their applications and also develop new functionality in order to adapt to the fast changing needs of business. “We would like to invite all ERP customers to take advantage of this platform to modernise their installations and build a flexible IT architecture for the future,” said Bharath.

This launch in Asia has given companies in the region an easy, low-cost alternative to move away from the four-walled technology solution set. Cordys plans to play a pivotal role in the evolution of the IT infrastructure of companies in accordance with whatever strategy they choose to pursue. Strategies may involve integrating best-of-breed packaged applications, developing Web services-based shared applications, or non-programmatically extending the existing monolithic applications to provide the missing functionality. Cordys suite neutralises this challenge by supporting all of these approaches.

In the traditional approach, buckets of functionality are merely interconnected, managed, and used per application. Even though data and transactions can pass between applications, the overall architecture of the system still does not function as a single composite application. Cordys simplifies integration by allowing business processes to connect and exchange messages using industry standards such as HTTP, XML, SOAP and WSDL.

The application development and integration achieved using Cordys will be much faster and cheaper. Developers would find it easy-to-use, as it does not require the knowledge of proprietary development tools. The Cordys suite is based on open Web services standards, which prevent enterprises from being locked into a specific vendor’s solution or technology.

Vanenburg is also offering an option of attractive subscription-based pricing so that a large number of organisations are benefited by the next generation of Web collaboration technologies.