Vanenburg unveils Cordys Suite

Hyderabad: Vanenburg Asia, the sales and marketing arm of the Netherlands-based Vanenburg group, has made its debut in the Asian market by introducing Cordys Collaboration Suite.

Cordys leverages the combined functionality of 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 the investments made in existing technology infrastructure.

Says Vanenburg Asia president D Bharath: "In the Internet economy, competitive advantage stems from information sharing and joint decision making with suppliers and other business partners. What is more important to note is that this paradigm substitutes inventory pileups with information in the value-chain and thus drives out costs from the operations. Therefore, the ability to integrate disparate business processes and IT applications has become a priority for the businesses today."

Cordys paves way for flexible integration between applications and processes within and outside the organisation. Cordys 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. Says Bharath: "We invite all ERP customers to take advantage of this platform to modernise their installations and build a flexible IT architecture for the future."

Cordys complements any IT strategy
The launch of Cordys in Asia has given companies in the region an easy, low-cost alternative to move away from the four-walled technology solution set. Says Vanenburg group chief technical officer Theodoor van Donge: "Cordys will 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 neutralises this challenge by supporting all of these approaches.

Differential advantages of Cordys
Highlighting the differential advantage of Cordys, van Donge says 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 vendors' solution or technology.

Option of subscription-based pricing
Vanenburg is also offering an option of attractive subscriptions-based pricing so that a large number of organisations are benefited by the next generation of Web collaboration technologies. Disclosing the rationale behind the pricing model, Bharath says: "In the backdrop of budgetary constraints and changed view towards technology investments, organisations prefer the pay-by-use model rather than making upfront investments"

The innovations that have been built into Cordys arise from company's focus on integration technologies. Incidentally, the technology architects, who developed one of the world's first integration technologies, have been behind the efflorescence of Cordys. Given it's subscription-based model and Web services rich environment, Cordys WCP is ideally suited for supporting the ever-evolving IT infrastructure of today's businesses on an ongoing basis.