BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners

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1 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Issue November 2011 Use External Pages 12 Introduction Hardware and software from Fujitsu provides our customers an optimal basis for their IT. Powerful servers interacting in an integrated environment with the right access devices support all major usage scenarios. The Fujitsu strategy mobility and business-critical computing ensures the right performance is available at the right place. The mobility you need the computing you trust: To ensure user satisfaction, Fujitsu is committed to providing continuously and reliably available access to the business-critical IT applications of its customers. BS2000/OSD in particular, with its high-quality hardware and system support software, makes a solid foundation for information processing. Excellent stability, security, availability and fault tolerance ensure the reliability that modern information technology demands. Also with respect to economical criteria the BS2000/OSD systems of Fujitsu convince by excellent scalability and ease of automation. Besides, the Fujitsu mainframes also support the open interfaces of the contemporary IT and in this way they form the basis for running the latest software applications. Fujitsu works closely with partners to provide applications. Their tailored software solutions optimally fulfill our customers IT requirements and extend the Fujitsu s product portfolio into a complete offering of sector-specific products, solutions and services. Contents Introduction 8.1 Overview 8.2 KORDOBA GmbH & Co. KG: Complete service from a single source KORDOBA Core Additional KORDOBA Components Consulting Outsourcing 8.3 ORACLE: E-Business in Internet and Data Management 8.4 Software AG: Software Infrastructure solutions based on open standards ADABAS webmethods and CentraSite Natural 8.5 Micro Focus: Net Express BS2000/OSD Option Net Express BS2000/OSD Option Highlights openutm Simulation Simulation of the openutm Client WebTransactions Simulation of the LEASY, SESAM/SQL and UDS/SQL data management systems 8.6 Data Warehouse with Partner Solutions and BS2000/OSD Data The Data Warehouse with BS2000/OSD Data 8.7 TONBELLER AG: Business Intelligence Siron for BS2000/OSD Components of the Siron Business Intelligence Suite

2 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 2 / Overview In order to be in a position to provide standard components and solutions, Fujitsu has entered into strategic alliances with a number of major partners. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications form the core of the productive (mission-critical) tasks in enterprises. In addition to using a whole range of proprietary applications, users are increasingly turning to standard solutions. Innovative application concepts such as client/server architecture or web-based applications have sharply accelerated this trend and are now proven and accepted. The internet, intranets and extranets have become indispensable for exchanging information and conducting business on a global scale with customers, partners and within the enterprise. The advent of the World Wide Web has opened up new business channels, enabling major improvements in customer support and services. Web-based information systems and e-business applications are revolutionizing the way data is processed. These applications can be built as custom solutions with help from powerful development environments or they can be deployed as sector-specific standard software. Both approaches are supported in BS2000/OSD by innovative partner products. For many years BS2000/OSD servers have provided a powerful, future-proof platform for application software solutions. BS2000/OSD customers in industry, commerce, banking and insurance as well as in government organizations can call upon some 400 commercial horizontal and vertical solutions or a wide range of different business tasks such as accounting, production and sales developed by around 100 providers. You can find the full range of solutions for BS2000/OSD as well as applications for other Fujitsu platforms in the Fujitsu Software Solutions Catalog at NOMINA GmbH also provides information on BS2000/OSD applications in its software marketplace on the internet. You can use a software navigator to search the site at (in German only). The following section presents some of the best-established and most popular BS2000/OSD user solutions in addition to featuring highly innovative solutions for the markets of the future.

3 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 3 / KORDOBA GmbH & Co. KG: Complete service from a single source As a 100% subsidiary company of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) KORDOBA GmbH & Co KG has been Germanys market leader for the last 25 years with its KORDOBA complete banking solution. With its modular structure and flexible parameterization and expansion options, KORDOBA CORE24 is a standard banking software that answers to the toughest demands banks can place on their core-banking applications and that takes all the various strategic orientations within the financial services industry into account. KORDOBA CORE24 is an integrated complete solution for handling and processing financial transactions. It has been a success story in the marketplace for over 25 years. The core-banking system enables the standardized connection to partner products, as well as the simple integration of thirdparty systems via open interfaces. As common source development KORDOBA CORE24 runs on various platforms e.g. BS2000/OSD and Solaris without the need for alterations on application level. By choosing KORDOBA, the financial institution gets a complete solution from a single source: covering product development, consulting and system rollout including outsourcing, support, and maintenance KORDOBA Core24 KORDOBA components KORDOBA Core24 comprises the KORDOBA Basis and posting system. The KORDOBA Basis system contains the technical and basic commercial functions and services. The KORDOBA posting system guarantees the processing and completion of banking transactions such as lending and deposits, including account settlement and overlapping commercial functions. The core-banking system neutral KORDOBA products for securities, bank management and the control and authorization of self-service terminals can easily be connected to KORDOBA CORE24 and all existing core-banking systems using standard interfaces. Basis System The Basis System connects KORDOBA products to the components of the operating system platform (data base access, message handling, runtime logs and data communication). Business functions include amongst others authorization testing, adherence to the regulations of the money laundering act, business documentation. Posting System The KORDOBA Posting system operates and administers accounts, posts lending and deposit transactions for all accounts and takes care of all tasks related to end of day settlement. Comprehensive business functions prevent data and function redundancies including amongst others product management system, interest and fee calculation, earnings data, payments, global agreement, and customer reporting Additional KORDOBA Components Securities System (K-GS) The securities system, KORDOBA-Global Securities, supports the securities-related processes - real time, process oriented and 24 / 7 - from the sales front end through to order management and back-office. It can be employed platform-independently using Solaris, BS2000/OSD or z/os and connects to any core-banking system. K-GS has all the important interfaces to stock exchange, trading and information systems s well as pervasive SOA services. The browser-based dialog user interface means its operation is user friendly and intuitive. Controlling Bank Processes (K-CONTROL) K-CONTROL encompasses both the gathering of information from heterogeneous system landscapes as well as the preparation and forwarding of this information to proprietary and partner products. Thanks to the modular product structure, banks can put together their own individualized solution for their accounting, controlling, liquidity-risk management and reporting needs. All functions of K-CONTROL are based on one common intelligent data interface RIO (Reporting and Information Organizer). A data pool rounds off K-CONTROL. It contains consistent, justified and historically recorded data from RIO, as well as the result data from the individual components of K-CONTROL. Accounting This component covers account and transaction valuation and balance sheet accounting in accordance with IAS / IFRS. A balance sheet database contains values for the preliminary balance sheet as provided for in the German Commercial Code (HGB) and the IAS / IFRS accounting values. The system covers all the requirements of the balance sheet annex accounting by residual term for the German Commercial Code and IAS / IFRS. The cash flows of all fixed rate transactions are allocated to the legally prescribed term ranges. Risk Controlling Risk Controlling makes interest rate risks transparent and controllable. The system calculates the entire bank payment flows on

4 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 4 / 12 the basis of the cash flows of all fixed interest rate transactions. Using the optional integration of variable interest transactions, Risk Controlling displays the effect of individual interest rate scenarios and offers possibilities for risk reduction. The controlling functions provide bank directors, controllers, marketing departments and customer consultants with extensive information on key aspects of bank controlling and bank marketing. Individual transactions right trough to the overall bank activities can be analyzed and controlled. The system offers comprehensive support, with clearly structured results for account, customer, customer group, product, branch and profit center as well as analysis possibilities can be created individually. Reporting Within the framework of preprocessing, the system creates the necessary account / transaction duplicates, considers any compensations and lead deposits / requirements and calculates existing value corrections. Global limits or securities are allocated to the respective demands and credit borrower units created according to KWG. The prepared transactions / accounts are transferred within the standard to the product SAMBAplus (LogicaCMG). Liquidity Risk Management This is the first product on the market to fulfill the demands on calculating and managing short-term liquidity in combination with strict back testing. It is based on the dissertation "Liquidity at Risk for controlling the liquidity-related finances of banks written by Dr. Stefan Zeranski. With the LaR solution banks fulfill important bank-regulatory risk-management requirements, and in most cases (usually excessive) liquidity reserves can be reallocated to improve earnings Authorization and Self-Service Operation (K-GATE) With K-GATE, KORDOBA offers a high-availability, high performance standard solution that contains all the functionalities banks require for authorization and operating self-service terminals. Thus KORDOBA belongs to the leading providers on the German market. More than 25 % of all ATM transactions in Germany are handled today using K-GATE. Multichannel Solution for Sales Banking (TouchPoint) TouchPoint Suite supports financial institutes in improving their sales and service performance. Using a standard platform, they can process sales and service banking for all channels. The core consists of an architecture that makes possible an efficient, consistent and grounded communication Consulting The consulting services that KORDOBA offers range from IT strategy consulting and analysis through to optimizing banking processes, designing and realizing individually customized solutions, and executing migration projects. The Consulting division provides services for KORDOBA, Fidelity and partner products. It can even realize highly specialized individual solutions Outsourcing Within the scope of an extensive operation and support concept, KORDOBA KG provides a high-class full service including maintenance, user support, application management, culminating in offering guaranteed service levels while maintaining the latest technological standards. You can find further information on KORDOBA on the internet at

5 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 5 / ORACLE: E-Business in Internet and Data Management Oracle Corporation is the world's second largest independent software company and the leading vendor of e-business-solutions for the internet. Parts of product portfolio are the internet platform, tools, and internet-enabled application software. This includes also product-related consulting, training and support services. Oracle was the first company to develop and deploy 100 percent internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: databases, application server, collaboration software and enterprise business applications as well as application development and decision support tools. The company is represented in more than 145 countries. The object-relational database system Oracle, designed for Grid computing has been ported to BS2000/OSD systems since It is available for the Windows, LINUX, Solaris and BS2000/OSD platforms and the only database system that can run universally on all computers in the Fujitsu family. As is clear from the many installations on large BS2000/OSD computers in the public administration sector and services industries worldwide, the importance of Oracle on mainframe computers has grown enormously. For more information see chapter 4.5. Oracle Application Server 10g is an application platform suite that offers a comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying all of your enterprise's applications, portals, and Web sites. The package is based on the powerful and flexibly adaptable J2EE-Server and capabilities for enterprise integration as well as portal software. Oracle application server is designed for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and grid computing. Together with Fujitsu s middleware openseas it provides the complete functionality for application innovation and modern application development. For more information see chapter 2.5 An overview of these and more Oracle products:

6 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 6 / Software AG: Software Infrastructure solutions based on open standards Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, with positions in 50 other countries provides a full range of products and services around Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), based on 38 years experience in high-performance databases, application development tools and integration technologies. After the acquirement of webmethods Inc. Software AG is the world s largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. It is represented in around 70 countries with more than 3,600 employees. The companies product portfolio includes best-in-class solutions for managing data, enabling Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and improving business processes. Its customers protect their IT investment by looking to Software AG as the partner of choice for mainframe modernization ADABAS ADABAS is a scalable enterprise database management system (DBMS) supporting the relational, NF2 and Entity-Relationship model for batch- and online-applications with a client-server architecture. It is able to handle both high transaction volumes and complex ad hoc queries while operating against large volumes of data and provides the same functionality across all platforms. ADABAS is a high-performance, multithreaded database management system that offers complete interoperability, scalability, and portability across desktop, LAN, UNIX, mid-range and mainframe environments. ADABAS supports the X/OPEN interface and is XA compliant. It offers a choice of data distribution methods including two-phase commit and controlled replication. In addition to ADABAS the functionality of ADABAS2006 has been expanded. Unlimited data support provides for the management of structured as well as unstructured data including BLOBs, EXCEL spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations as well as picture and text files. You can find further information on Adabas at webmethods and CentraSite webmethods Application Modernization Web Edition extends the reach of core systems to the web by modernizing existing user interfaces. Product: webmethods ApplinX webmethods Application Modernization SQL Edition integrates enterprise data seamlessly in existing and new applications providing real-time, SQL-based access to relational and non-relational data sources. Product: webmethods ConnecX Adapters webmethods Application Modernization SOA Edition Extends core systems for use in a Service-Oriented architecture by exposing existing IT assets as new services and enabling core systems to leverage any service. Products: webmethods ApplinX, webmethods EntireX, webmethods Enterprise Service Bus und CentraSite Integration und Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) The webmethods ESB Platform is based on a Service-Oriented architecture (SOA). SOA provides application developers a single standards-based platform to quickly and efficiently develop new applications while maximizing existing investments. The webmethods ESB includes all of the tools needed to integrate existing applications and partners. Business Process Management This suite makes it easy for you to understand the possibilities for process improvement, to collaborate on the design of new capabilities and to quickly build out solutions that exceed the expectations of your business, without costly and time-intensive development. All being involved in a business process are enabled to depict everything related to this process within one Eclipse-based tool with different modes for business and technical collaboration SOA Governance SOA governance is a subset of IT governance. It establishes policies, controls, and enforcement mechanisms required for successful SOA adoption by giving IT visibility and control over the SOA development and deployment. Product: CentraSite Enterprise Edition and Governance Edition

7 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 7 / 12 Business Activity Monitoring In just minutes, it is possible to begin to monitor a business systems, process and service performance to determine current status of KPIs, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), etc., in a highly graphical and at-a-glance dashboard Natural Natural is a software development tool designed specifically for building business-critical applications, supporting procedure- as well as event-driven programming. It runs on a variety of platforms (e.g. BS2000/OSD) and is fuelled by a very high-level programming language that hides complexity and cuts down development and maintenance costs. Natural 2006 provides now even more advantages and has available powerful SOA and WebServices development tools including wide support for open source environments and rich internet applications. Natural is largely platform-independent. This means that business applications developed with Natural can be deployed on a wide range of hardware and operating system platforms. Software AG emphasizes that the user friendliness of Natural is a product of its open and flexible architecture, which also enables programmers to extend existing applications with ease and fulfill new requirements such as component structure and internet integration. Among powerful development tools there is also the Entire Systems Management portfolio of tools to automate production control in a distributed environment. A modern user interface enables you to control data center resources and services, automate job scheduling and event-driven batch-processing, improve output organization and optimize print-processing. Additionally, you gain a console to monitor events within the data center and interface with all system information and services. You can find further information on Software AG products on the internet at

8 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 8 / Micro Focus: Net Express BS2000/OSD Option Micro Focus - based in Great Britain, USA, Germany, and Japan - is one of the leading providers of solutions for development and handling of legacy applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk Net Express BS2000/OSD Option The development environment of Net Express together with BS2000/OSD Option offers a complete set of functions that allow for fast and efficient development of BS2000/OSD applications. Net Express enhanced with BS2000/OSD Option is an integrated development environment for BS2000/OSD: It allows for Batch and Dialog Applications using openutm to be developed and tested on the PC before delivered for production on BS2000/OSD. Moving development tasks to the PC results in significant improvement of productivity and software quality. Client-Server Applications using a BS2000/OSD Server can be developed and tested under BS2000/OSD Option. Net Express offers a common development environment for the server and the client part of the application, builds the runtime environment on the client in production and allows with its BS2000/OSD Option to test Client and Server together on the same platform. Offering numerous interfaces Net Express enables reusing existing business logic of well proved BS2000 Applications in modern software architectures. This allows to use existing functionality as the base for the generation of Web Services, EJBs and CORBA objects or to integrate it with Internet Applications. With Net Express support for COBOL/Java interoperability, mixed COBOL and Java applications can be easily created Highlights Integrated development environment Modern COBOL compiler compatible with COBOL2000 (BS2000/OSD) Functions for simulating the BS2000 system environment To allow development work on the PC, the Net Express BS2000/OSD Option emulates certain functions of the runtime environment under BS2000/OSD. These include user and task switches, simulation of openutm and the LEASY, SESAM and UDS data management systems, and seamless integration with the Fujitsu openseas product suite openutm Simulation The openutm simulation of the BS2000/OSD Option emulates the openutm transaction monitor in the Net Express development environment. Starting with the application definitions of the KDCDEF utility, the KDCS interface is supported to allow communication between the application programs and openutm. At application runtime the KDCF parameters can be displayed using the TRACE function and interactively modified. This enables the application logic and the associated transaction demarcations, the linkage of the individual application program units via openutm and the control of mask output to be visualized, thus permitting rapid troubleshooting. To support formatted dialogs, the FHS format handling system is emulated. IFG format libraries can be transferred from host to PC.

9 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 9 / Simulation of the openutm Client To support the development of client/server applications with an openutm application as server, the Net Express BS2000/OSD Option includes a simulation of the openutm client. This enables the client too to be developed and tested using Net Express. During debugging, the client application can communicate with a server application running under the openutm simulation of the BS2000/OSD Option. This enables the interaction of the two parts of the application to be tested on one platform. The two parts of the application can be animated simultaneously, and the server can be monitored with the openutm TRACE. The appropriate Fujitsu software is required for communication with a real openutm application. Figure 1: The openutm Trace WebTransactions The Fujitsu product WebTransactions enables the generation of object-oriented methods to allow access by Windows clients to BS2000 applications which can be called from Net Express. For applications that use BizTransactions or WebTransactions, the openutm simulation in the BS2000/OSD Option permits the joint testing of client and server within the same development environment. For this, WebTransactions is required on the PC in addition to Net Express Simulation of the LEASY, SESAM/SQL and UDS/SQL data management systems At installation time, the Net Express BS2000/OSD Option permits simulation modules to be selected for the BS2000 LEASY, SESAM and UDS data management systems. All DB simulations include various utilities which are included in the Net Express integrated development environment during installation. These utilities enable structure information and test data resources from databases to be transferred from the host. With the DB simulation modules, BS2000 applications that use these database systems can be fully maintained and developed further or implemented from new, regardless of whether they are batch or interactive applications. The database simulation modules execute the database accesses on the PC, while at the interface to the COBOL program they behave entirely analogously to the original database on the BS2000/OSD system. This applies in particular to the returned parameters, e.g. the database status, which means that exception handling routines can also be tested in the simulation. You can find further information on Micro Focus at

10 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 10 / Data Warehouse with Partner Solutions and BS2000/OSD Data One of the problem areas with modern data processing is that it generates and then has to manage masses of data in separate and independent systems. These evolutionary island solutions satisfactorily fulfills the specific tasks for which they were created, but in order to generate universally applicable information it is necessary to be able to access data in different formats, in different systems or in protected domains. These two extremes operational data and business-critical values are brought together in a data warehouse. The data warehouse forms the basis for new solutions. A data warehouse uses data from operational systems without adversely affecting its integrity or availability. The data is selected, linked together, compressed, edited and organized into a form in which it can be analyzed, correlated or presented. Data in the operational systems represents a series of snapshots of the business workflow and therefore contains no indicators of change processes or growth trends. At the same time these indicators are the very information on which decisions are based. Methods in the data warehouse ensure that, for example, the data is recorded on a time axis, stored and constantly updated, and can therefore fulfill these requirements. Characteristics of conventional data warehouse solutions include huge data volumes, large numbers of users distributed over many locations, and resource utilization marked by workload peaks. The underlying data sources are organized to allow optimized servicing of queries. A data warehouse architecture typically consists of one or more servers on which the data warehouse data is stored. This data can be retrieved, evaluated and analyzed by users using a vast range of client software The Data Warehouse with BS2000/OSD Data Many organizations running BS2000/OSD installations possess numerous operational data resources built up over many years and stored in databases (SESAM/SQL, UDS/SQL, Oracle) or other data management systems (LEASY, SAM, ISAM files). It is essential that the values of such data resources, prior operational processes and the valuable knowledge of the data security and availability of the proven BS2000/ OSD system are preserved for new requirements and application environments. Extracting the operational data and building the actual data warehouse database is usually done with the support of special tools. These so-called ETL tools (ETL = extraction, transformation, loading) are available from a number of vendors one very well-known example is Powermart from Informatica. The BS2000/OSD data is made available to an ETL tool as a sequential file or alternatively the tool accesses the operational data of the BS2000/OSD system directly via an ODBC connection (e.g. ODBC-Rocket from GFS GmbH). The data extraction runs directly under BS2000/OSD, e.g. when using Meta suite from Minerva. A number of standard tools for formulating queries and generating reports are available on the Windows basis. The best-known companies in this field are Business Objects, Cognos, and SAS. The platform-independent DWH navigation tool QUBON from TONBELLER (see section 8.7) was developed on the basis of Java and XML and presents the data in the browser as a client. In addition to Windows and UNIX platforms it therefore directly supports BS2000/OSD as well. These tools enable data originating from BS2000/OSD (and/or other systems) to be edited into information and can also be used to generate effective analyses and reports. They can also provide Excel or Access add-ins so that users have no need to leave their familiar working environment. The paradigm shift often associated with the introduction of a data warehouse, is therefore optimally supported: away from the formerly prevalent standard reports to customized reports and convenient ad-hoc reporting based on a common, consolidated database. In many cases Oracle is the ideal candidate for a consolidated database because of its platform independence, and because most analytical tools can work with Oracle. The data coming from BS2000/OSD can be analyzed using the data mining tools and methods available from Fujitsu, Cognos or Business Objects, enabling new, unexpected connections to be identified with little effort. In addition to the client/server architectures already mentioned, the data warehouse can also be integrated into the internet. For this, too, the familiar tool providers supply a web component of their query tools. This can be used to create data warehouse solutions based on entirely different operational data resources in BS2000/OSD and/or other systems, e.g. a SESAM database (customer master data), an Oracle database (product master data) etc.. The data extracted from the operational data is analyzed using a tool and supplied to the desktop via a web browser.

11 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 11 / TONBELLER AG: Business Intelligence TONBELLER AG, a medium-sized software and consulting company, based in Bensheim, Germany, has over three decades of experience in the field and is a pioneer in development and implementation of company-wide Business Intelligence solutions. TONBELLER specializes in mining and distributing complex information from heterogeneous data sources. This service is in high demand because, for historical reasons, virtually all companies have IT structures with various types of databases. With years of experience, TONBELLER can not only draw on the data in modern applications (e.g. SAP), but can also integrate legacy systems into a current, comprehensive reporting system. Siron Business Intelligence Suite Reporting meets Analysis The Siron Business Intelligence Suite comprises all the tools and functions which may be needed to cover the complete bandwidth of evaluations, reports and analytical studies for business management purposes. The way all company data can be comprehensively integrated, the high-performance system components and the intuitive user interface make it quick and easy to set up and expand a Business Intelligence system which will be fit for purpose and up-to-date at all times, and accessible to all of a company s employees worldwide. "Reports meets Analysis" describes the essential performance features of the Siron Business Intelligence Suite, designed to make all company data available in the form of reports, DWHs and analytical studies, combining conventional reporting and modern analytical procedures locally and worldwide Siron for BS2000/OSD The full functionality of Siron is available on BS2000/OSD for reading simple files as well as Leasy, Adabas, Oracle, Sesam/SQL and UDS/SQL databases. You receive your reports as listings, PDF or Excel files or by . A web interface permits personalized posting of information on the internet. Siron is also ideally suited as an ETL tool for supplying data warehouses and data marts. Siron s strength in this context lies in its ability to access disparate data sources simultaneously, as well as in its powerful yet simple 4GL, which is used for data cleansing. Finally, Siron allows the cleansed data to be loaded into any relational DWHs. Siron is the general-purpose tool for the entire enterprise Reporting, i.e. bringing together company data from different sources for selection, evaluation and processing, is tremendously important as the basis for decision-making, especially in a dynamic competitive environment and an increasingly globalized world. IT experts will value the productivity of the TONBELLER Business Intelligence Suite, even on complex development tasks. Siron demonstrates particular strength when it comes to processing mass data, delivering performance comparable with the processing speed of optimized Assembler programs. Employees in other specialist departments will enjoy the ease of use when they have a sudden need for information. Interactive user prompting supports the formulation and execution of queries as well as management of the results. Knowledge of the specific system environment is not required when Siron is used. Siron is a 4GL with the power of a 3GL Siron processes any number of input data resources in one query. Efficient synchronization mechanisms permit the parallel processing of relational and hierarchical databases and conventional files. Siron can generate or modify any number of files and databases in the same query and simultaneously output an almost unlimited number of line-oriented and graphical reports. You can launch Siron directly from the source code. But you can also convert Siron queries and install them as an object deck in a load library and call them from there an important feature for use in data center operations and in environments where applications have to meet rigorous audit ability requirements. Siron is easy to understand and just as easy to use Reporting and OLAP analysis require data to be processed and displayed graphically. It is only when data that is normally displayed in tables is presented in line graphs, bar charts etc. that connections become clear and it is easier to interpret the data and the trends they reveal. Dashboards visualize large quantities of usually distributed data in compressed form (e.g. key figures, key performance indicators). This concise information about status and management forms the basis for a quick overview, succinct evaluation and well-founded decision-making. Siron is the business intelligence add-on for other application systems Using Siron, the tables and views of the SAP systems can be processed along with data resources from Kordoba, IFS, MBS, EAS, and many other application systems. Most notably, Siron also supports a combination of several data sources in different systems.

12 Summary Issue: November 2011 BS2000/OSD Scope Chapter 8 Best solutions with partners Use: External Page 12 / Components of the Siron Business Intelligence Suite Siron Kern Siron Kern is the base module of the Siron Business Intelligence Suite. It is available for all standard computer types, databases and file systems. In one step, Siron Kern processes any number of databases, even if stored on different computers. The data may originate from conventional files, from hierarchical and relational databases, or from standard systems like SAP R/3. No special computer skills are required to use Siron Kern. The Siron language lets you draw up quickly and easily your evaluations and analyses. Designs and layouts are graphically supported by the Siron Report Designer. Siron DWH-Builder Siron DWH-Builder and Siron TDI, bridge the gap between conventional (ad hoc) reporting and DWH-based OLAP analysis, providing, for the first time ever, an integrated tool for both analytics and reporting. This way, you can meet virtually all of your information needs with one tool. You can transform static lists into dynamic data marts with flexible formatting and analysis options and convert individual analyses into lists and reports in any output format. Siron DWH-Builder handles the essential modeling of DWH structures (star or snowflake) and generates the relational data pools. You generally do not need proprietary databases - Siron solutions use only your standard platforms (e.g., DB/2, Oracle, SQL Server etc.) and can thus work smoothly with alternative tools or applications. The new Siron command, "Supply DWH", defines and fills SQL-based data marts in one single step. At the same time, you can create Qubon or Siron TDI applications that allow you to flexibly view or analyze standard databases in a standard browser. Siron TDI Turning Data into Information Siron TDI can be started from any standard browser without prior distribution or installation. The Siron TDI server components can be integrated on any web server, making them easy to implement in intranet and internet environments. The intuitive, userfriendly front-end provides real-time access both to the databases created by Siron DWH-Builder and to existing data marts and data warehouses. In contrast to previous static lists, users can view on their monitor answers to more detailed questions or other types of questions. As a result, users can answer more than 90% of questions coming up in daily operations without any programming input from the IT department Not only does this lighten the workload for the IT department, it also immediately boosts user satisfaction with customized information and faster resolution. Siron TDI is the perfect tool for providing companywide access to business information from different systems and data sources. Siron Web/Publisher Siron Web integrates the internet and intranet into your reporting system to provide worldwide information access from any standard browser. Reports can be presented in HTML, PDF or Excel. Siron Publisher, an add-on to Siron Web, actively distributes reports on the web. With the publishing functionality, you can create flexible mailing lists for every report to notify users immediately (e.g., via or SMS) that new information is available. Summary TONBELLER AG s mission is to combine OLAP, reporting and web services. The result is a business intelligence architecture which makes DWHs and conventional reports available easily and straightforwardly to end users and any applications via web services. Innovation and continuity a goal to which TONBELLER has been committed in the interests of its customers since its foundation leads to lasting investment protection. This is made particularly clear in its partnership with Fujitsu in the form of an integrated concept for the future development of the respective hardware and software architectures. In this way it is possible to offer customers the use of TONBELLER business intelligence solutions simultaneously under BS2000/OSD and Solaris. The best demonstration of this cooperation can be seen in the SX server line from Fujitsu and the TONBELLER products that run on this hardware. Since the beginning, Fujitsu platforms have been among the most important systems supported by TONBELLER. With support for Qubon and Siron on BS2000/OSD, Fujitsu and TONBELLER will continue to provide their customers with an attractive solution combining legacy applications and leading-edge technology over the next several years. You can find further information on the internet at All rights reserved, including intellectual property rights. Technical data subject to modifications and delivery subject to availability. 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